Nick Hanauer - Job Creator Myth

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Yea, the poor make poor decisions and it cost them money.

...and when the rich make poor decisions, they make the poor pay for it.


Funny how that works. The poor (and middle class) have to pay for not only their mistakes, but the mistakes of the wealthy as well.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

...and when the rich make poor decisions, they make the poor pay for it.


Funny how that works. The poor (and middle class) have to pay for not only their mistakes, but the mistakes of the wealthy as well.

What poor decisions did the rich make I'm paying for.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by firstdown

What poor decisions did the rich make I'm paying for.

auto industry bailouts, bank bailouts, defense bailouts... all of these cause by bad ceo level leadership and greedy mortgage bankers that ended up costing us all a lot of money.

and it's silly that i'd pay a 24%+ effective tax rate while those (like letterman) who get free money from subsidized farming, and others that hide money in off shore accounts and use low taxed investment income etc pay 15-18% even though they make 5-100x more than me. fair share and all.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by That Guy

auto industry bailouts, bank bailouts, defense bailouts... all of these cause by bad ceo level leadership and greedy mortgage bankers that ended up costing us all a lot of money.

and it's silly that i'd pay a 24%+ effective tax rate while those (like letterman) who get free money from subsidized farming, and others that hide money in off shore accounts and use low taxed investment income etc pay 15-18% even though they make 5-100x more than me. fair share and all.

I thought all that money was paid back with interest. LMAO

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I thought all that money was paid back with interest. LMAO

Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout - The New York Times

Bailout Scorecard | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica




Name me another business in the real world that has been bailed out tax payers because it's rich entitled CEOs made poor ass decisions so they could bank a buck or two?

Like I said, when rich people make bad decisions, the poor people pay for them as well as their own.


Just like you. If you made horrible decisions at your work, would you eat the costs or would you pass them on? My guess is you'd lay off people, cut your costs to make up for that stupid decision. Again, the poor people paying for the mistakes of the upper echelon. (not claiming you are such, just using it as an example)

[firstdown]

[quote=NC_Skins;918383]Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout - The New York Times

Bailout Scorecard | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica




Name me another business in the real world that has been bailed out tax payers because it's rich entitled CEOs made poor ass decisions so they could bank a buck or two?

Like I said, when rich people make bad decisions, the poor people pay for them as well as their own.


Just like you. If you made horrible decisions at your work, would you eat the costs or would you pass them on? My guess is you'd lay off people, cut your costs to make up for that stupid decision. Again, the poor people paying for the mistakes of the upper echelon. (not claiming you are such, just using it as an example)[/quote

Its only a stupid decision if you do not learn from your mistake.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Its only a stupid decision if you do not learn from your mistake.

Dodging like a mofo. Since you didn't disagree with that assessment that the poor people pay for the rich people's mistakes, that kind of nullifies your gripe about poor people.