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Oliver, you got to cut this multimedia stuff out. I can’t watch this stuff at work!
You’re not missing much. Apparently, Republicans are stealing money from Grandparents and children and writing checks directly to Paris Hilton.
Not that any of it is true, mind you…
If you’ve seen any commercial from a Democrat in the past 25 years, you’ve seen this one.
It’s just more left-wing demagoguery. Apparently, according to the Democrats, the poor and social security recipients own Paris Hilton’s money, and it’s stealing from them to allow Miss Hilton to have more of her own money!
It’s really easy for our left wing friends to demagogue this issue; after all, surely Miss Hilton doesn’t need all that money. But they never seem to get down to the fact that it is her money, and no one else’s, and by not stealing as much of it taxing as much of it we are not robbing the poor.
No, we’re just robbing the funding for programs the poor depend on. Why should the government be in the business of encouraging the further Hiltonization of the richest 1% anyway? It’s a time of war, don’t you know? 9/11 changed everything. I really wish you conservatives would start taking the economy and the war a bit more seriously.
TomY: Feel free to send as much money to the gummint as you choose. I will do the same.
Paris Hilton inherited very little of her money — she did earn it.
And I don’t care if she found it growing on the trees in her backyard — it’s still hers.
Dana:
Yeah, let’s not ask Paris Hilton to pay her fair share. After all, she earned her money the old-fashioned way–she inherited it!
Seriously, though, I find it bizarre that people would defend someone like Paris Hilton, who pretty much exemplifies everything that is wrong with the concept of inherited wealth.
I love how cons worry more about protecting millionaire’s financial well-being than their own.
I’ll worry about my wallet, let the millonaire’s worry about theirs. They don’t help me, and I won’t help them.
Can any Republican explain to me how allowing the wealthy to keep more of their money (I’d like to know what contributions and hard work Paris achieved to earn millions heaped on millions, but that’s another issue about the perversion of our economic system) and increasing spending, adding burden to local systems, are great ideas? Were the wealthy ever hurting? Were any of them MISSING the money when it was taxed away from them? Why not tax cuts for people like MYSELF — average middle class. I haven’t noticed one iota of difference in my paycheck since Bush acquired the throne. But I have seen my property taxes increase while my county has made cutbacks to needed things like police and education. Oh, the angst of living during the Republican dream of absolute power.
Is it even a good idea to define wealth as a sign of hard work?
The converse would be, that a person who was a very successful entrepreneur(sic) who was swindled out of his money didn’t really work all that hard.
In my mind, “hard work” is independent of the possessions earned while doing so. True, on an economic level, with all things being equal, a hard worker is much more likely to profit than a lazy worker. However, that’s not a hard and fast rule, mainly because of luck.
It’s one of the basic tenets of trailer-dwelling Republicans who want to protect multi-multi-millionaires from paying taxes. The estate tax would affect almost 2 percent of the population, if only there were not loopholes that allow half of that tiny fraction to avoid the estate tax anyway.
Yeah, they just stuff their money in the mattress. They don’t invest that money into the economy at all. Thankfully, the poor are starting a lot of businesses and driving job growth.
“Allowing”? The government “allows” me to keep my money? Good grief.
This tax begins between 1.5 million in 2005 and 3.5 million in 2009. Hardly in the “multi-multi-millionaire” range. Additionally, you are talking about the small group of people (the top 1%) who pay 30% of the taxes. They are far from being protected from taxation.
Liar