"California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on
Capitol Hill, with a net worth estimated at about $251 million."
Why, that NASTY grasping, selfish Republican! How DARE he hoard such
wealth with so many starving homeless undocumented immigrant children
of color in this country?
Who are the next four richest? We The People oughta go to WA DC and
just rend them limb from limb and devour their wriggling carcasses!
That'd teach them! Then the honest, upright, generous Democrats could
make SURE that wealth is fairly distributed; everybody KNOWS Democrats
aren't Evil Grasping Hoarders!
"Next in line: Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), worth about $244.7
million; Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), worth about $214.5 million; Sen.
Mark Warner (D-Va.), worth about $209.7 million; and Sen. John Kerry
(D-Mass.), worth about $208.8 million."
Oh, wait... never mind.
Original source:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/index.php
Dr. HotSalt
Yes, we should collect all the assets, wealth, and
resources available to humanity, specifically taking it
away from achievers, and then, distribute it all equally
among all people by dividing it fairly. THEN there will
be no more war, gangs and poverty. Everyone will be happy
and we can spend more time singing and drinking
Coca-cola.
Handicap parking for everyone!!
---
Mark
Now you know why we should kill all gmail postings !!!!
Are you suggesting that there could be
a flaw in Communism? Or sarcasm?
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Mark
There are no flaws in sarcasm.
Matthew (unless you are doing it wrong)
--
I have two granddaughters:
Alex will find a way to silently get from where she is to where she
wants to be.
Anna will make an Anna sized hole between where she is to where she
wants to be.
Here's an idea. Every year, we have a lottery. First, one person with
assets over $100 million is chosen, and then one person with assets
under $1 million is chosen. All except $1 million is taken from the
first person and given to the second.
That way, we have wealth redistribution without equality.
You are Harrison Bergeron, and I claim an iPod set to play white noise.
Dave
--
\/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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On Nov 8, 5:01 pm, Mark <blueriver...@y>
> Yes, we should collect all the assets, wealth, and
> resources available to humanity, specifically taking it
> away from achievers, and then, distribute it all equally
> among all people by dividing it fairly. THEN there will
> be no more war, gangs and poverty. Everyone will be happy
> and we can spend more time singing and drinking
> Coca-cola.
>
> Handicap parking for everyone!!
LOL - Isn't that how a lot of liberals actually think?
On Nov 8, 6:17 pm, Piet de Arcilla <dearci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an idea. Every year, we have a lottery. First, one person with
> assets over $100 million is chosen, and then one person with assets
> under $1 million is chosen. All except $1 million is taken from the
> first person and given to the second.
>
> That way, we have wealth redistribution without equality.
If the first guy had 150 Million, then the newly rich guy
would be eligible to be stripped of his new wealth the following year.
There's a guy in my area who was famous for
literally starting his big company in a garage.
I heard that over and over.
Then I found out he DID start in his garage
but with MILLIONS of dollars his wife
had inherited!
People only tried telling me the ""garage""
story one or twice after that but I
confess I enjoyed unloading on them.
I'm probably good for a half-dozen strokes.
Mark Edwards
--
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I have looked all through Wikipedia and searched through Google, and I
cannot find who or what a Sarca is.
He's a big horse?
I'm sure you have.
�R Around here, the fun is always filled with blanks.
http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/arkville.html --Theresa Willis
>>Are you suggesting that there could be a flaw in Communism? Or sarcasm?
>
> I have looked all through Wikipedia and searched through Google, and I
> cannot find who or what a Sarca is.
SARS has created a big chasm.
--oTTo--
Thanks,
Rich
I hear there's a cream for that.
Dave "just sayin'" DeLaney
Why 'never mind'?
How do these people vote on tax issues? Not every wealthy person sits in
their cellar, counting their coins.
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Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context.
> How do these people vote on tax issues? Not every wealthy person sits in
> their cellar, counting their coins.
Yeah really.
We have people do it for us.
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Mark
> How do these people vote on tax issues?
Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
really a vote, but is what gets entered.
> Not every wealthy person sits in
> their cellar, counting their coins.
The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
HTH.
<Yeah really.
<
<We have people do it for us.
It's called a "bank".
--oTTo--
>"Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote
>
>> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>
>Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>
>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>
>The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>HTH.
The problem with that theory is that they're going to tax old wealth
by letting inflation run wild.
IFYPFY.
Dave "HTH. HAND. $$$." DeLaney
So put it somewhere that will keep up with inflation. Preferably in a
business in a tax jurisdiction with low/no capital gains or dividend
taxes.
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ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
You do realize that inflation is the way that tax cuts are funded, don't
you?
Matthew
>krw wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:57:48 -0500, "Otto Bahn" <e...@eio.com> wrote:
>>
>> >"Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote
>> >
>> >> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>> >
>> >Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>> >really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>> >
>> >> Not every wealthy person sits in
>> >> their cellar, counting their coins.
>> >
>> >The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>> >HTH.
>>
>> The problem with that theory is that they're going to tax old wealth
>> by letting inflation run wild.
>
>So put it somewhere that will keep up with inflation. Preferably in a
>business in a tax jurisdiction with low/no capital gains or dividend
>taxes.
Go right ahead and buy California bonds.
>krw wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:57:48 -0500, "Otto Bahn" <e...@eio.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote
>>>
>>>> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>>> Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>>> really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>>>
>>>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>>>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>>> The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>>> HTH.
>>
>> The problem with that theory is that they're going to tax old wealth
>> by letting inflation run wild.
>>
>
>You do realize that inflation is the way that tax cuts are funded, don't
>you?
Sure, but tax cuts *help* starve the beast, just as drunk sailoring[*]
feeds it.
[*] Kennedy had this one down pat, in all senses of the phrase
Only if spending is restrain. The GOP cut taxes *and* increased
spending. No starvation today, only future destitution.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/browse_thread/thread/7e292b42c079aa35?hl=en#
http://darkenergy.narod.ru/biz.html
http://darkenergy.narod.ru/magtren.html
http://darkenergy.narod.ru/tezeng.html
http://darkenergy.narod.ru/civilen.html
>krw wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:24:24 -0500, "Matthew L. Martin"
>> <not...@notnow.never> wrote:
>>
>>> krw wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:57:48 -0500, "Otto Bahn" <e...@eio.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>>>>> Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>>>>> really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>>>>>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>>>>> The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>>>>> HTH.
>>>> The problem with that theory is that they're going to tax old wealth
>>>> by letting inflation run wild.
>>>>
>>> You do realize that inflation is the way that tax cuts are funded, don't
>>> you?
>>
>> Sure, but tax cuts *help* starve the beast, just as drunk sailoring[*]
>> feeds it.
>
>Only if spending is restrain. The GOP cut taxes *and* increased
>spending. No starvation today, only future destitution.
I don't recall ever saying that GWB was a conservative, only that he
was far better than the alternatives. He did have the banking crisis
right, unlike your leftist heroes.
Crap on you for doing that joek before me.
>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>
> The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
> HTH.
If you tax wealth instead of income, you promote liquidity of cash,
and therefore help the economy explodiate even more exponentially
fast!
Win!
--
TimC
Sign on door of computing lecturer: "If your project is 90% right,
I will give you a distinction, your employer will fire you." -- Zebee
With a pen and paper. Or sometimes their voice.
--
TimC
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
-- Marvin Minsky
_Kill_?
Heh. Heh heh.
>Take action, to save your souls!
Oh, their -souls- are in no danger.
Dave "across! the eighth! DIMENNNNSION!" DeLaney
Shy are you bring GWB into the discussion? The spending bills originated
in the GOP dominated Congress. All he did was sign them. He was good at
doing what he was told.
BTW, I don't have any heroes who are also politicians.
>>>> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>>> Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>>> really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>>>
>>>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>>>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>>> The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>>> HTH.
>>
>> The problem with that theory is that they're going to tax old wealth
>> by letting inflation run wild.
>>
>
> You do realize that inflation is the way that tax cuts are funded, don't
> you?
Without taxes we'd have infinite inflation!
The problem is when government spends more than it rakes in.
Cut spending AND taxes.
--oTTo--
> On 2009-11-09, Otto Bahn (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> "Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote
>>
>>> How do these people vote on tax issues?
>>
>> Yes, No, Abstain, or Absent. They latter technically is not
>> really a vote, but is what gets entered.
>
> Crap on you for doing that joek before me.
>
>>> Not every wealthy person sits in
>>> their cellar, counting their coins.
>>
>> The key is taxing new *income* and not their old wealth.
>> HTH.
>
> If you tax wealth instead of income, you promote liquidity of cash,
> and therefore help the economy explodiate even more exponentially
> fast!
Cash moves fast alright. Right off shore.
--
Paul Hovnanian pa...@hovnanian.com
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Have gnu, will travel.
> The problem is when government spends more than it rakes in.
> Cut spending AND taxes.
>
> --oTTo--
Then how are we supposed to fund corruption?
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mark, circa-2010
1) You have such a case of BDS that I thought I'd help you out with
your hate. 2) GWB was the head of the Republican party (and
republican party). He was sorta important in the decision making
process.
>BTW, I don't have any heroes who are also politicians.
Not that you'll admit to, but you do. You love all socialists.
Any reason you feel the need to project motivations on others? Perhaps
you don't have a rational basis for your positions? I thought so.
Nope. Wrong again. ...but I can read.
>>> I don't recall ever saying that GWB was a conservative, only that he
>>> was far better than the alternatives. He did have the banking crisis
>>> right, unlike your leftist heroes.
>>
>>Shy are you bring GWB into the discussion? The spending bills originated
>>in the GOP dominated Congress. All he did was sign them. He was good at
>>doing what he was told.
>
> 1) You have such a case of BDS that I thought I'd help you out with
> your hate. 2) GWB was the head of the Republican party (and
> republican party). He was sorta important in the decision making
> process.
Not really. He was reading a story about goats while
the decision makers were deciding whether or not to
take down airliners full of American citizens.
They could have nailed every one of those jets with
Navy SA missiles or air-to-air missiles, but they froze
instead.
--oTTo--
I don't believe that krw has made this particular claim before. It is
obvious that he can read text, otherwise he wouldn't be able to read and
respond to the text messages on the usergroup, but he doesn't seem to read
books or reflective articles magazines with any kind of inteelctual content.
--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Who said anything about achievers? Those were senators. This country
already takes everything from the achievers, outsources their jobs, and
gives billion dollar bonuses to the CEOs, whether their company makes
or loses money. And the politicians spend much more money running
for office than they earn from their salaries.
Almost right. It wasn't supposed to start before he left office.
>> They could have nailed every one of those jets with
>> Navy SA missiles or air-to-air missiles, but they froze
>> instead.
>>
>> --oTTo--
>>
> I don't know which would be scarier: a world where 9/11 could happen, or
> a world where airliners could be pre-emptively shot down to prevent a
> possible 9/11. Think of the people on that Northwest flight.
I'm just sayin'. It's was *already* routine procedure to
scramble fighters for hijackings. Whoever decided whatever
was *not* the President.
*That* is scary too. It might even be less scary, but that
is another story.
--oTTo--
They left out this guy:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/04/it-pays-to-go-green-al-gores-net-worth-jumps-from-2-million-in-2000-to-100-million-in-2008/
Clearly, Prince Al knows where the money is!
Cheers!
Rich
Gore is a FORMER senator.
Duh!
Mark L. Fergerson
Whoosh!
Of course! He can make much more money spreading his warmingist propaganda.
Thanks,
Rich
Palin figured out that there's a lot more money to be made as a speaker,
author and "consultant" than as a government official too, you know. :-)
You do know that making money is bad only when liberals do it, don't
you? It is perfectly fine for conservatives to successfully collect all
of the money.
Well, of course.
When Liberals *make* money they never back the paper with anything.
When Conservatives *collect* money, the Liberals tax it away from
them.
Dr. HotSalt
I can't understand why anybody's paying any attention at all to Sarah
Palin. She's been nothing but a bad joke since day one.
Probably the "liberal" media keep trotting her out to continue to rub
the Republicans' nose into the Obama win, which, BTW, is leading the
Republic down into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
Thanks,
Rich
> Of course! He can make much more money spreading his warmingist propaganda.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
I tell ya what. You find a way to stop the North Pole,
and the glaciers from melting as they are, so that we
don't end up with a billion or two displaced illiterate
"tourists", and...fix the weather too, ok? And those
nasty "dead zones" on the ocean floor which are big
as the state of Texas and growing.
If you'll fix all that...then I'll personally deliver the
head of Al Gore, or anyone else you want, in a
shiny hat box.
---
Mark
You do understand the North Pole doesn't make a bit of difference to sea
level, right? Greenland, that's another story.
�R
The North Pole is just the tip of the iceberg.
But another disruption in the Humbolt current is
going to spell disaster, again. It's my faaavorite
thermohaline conveyor. As in...
Thermohaline Conveyor
A global water circulation system driven by water temperature and salt-
density that distributes water between the Earth’s oceans. Warmer
water closer to the ocean's surface travels from the northern Pacific
Ocean, south through the Indian Ocean (where it is joined by more warm
water), around the southern tip of Africa, and up to the northern
Atlantic Ocean. At this point, the water cools and sinks toward the
bottom of the ocean and travels back via the same path. The
thermohaline conveyor is repsonsibile for bringing warmer, more
temperate climate to most of Europe and has a profound effect on
global climate.
And Al Gore?
Don't shoot the messenger.
---
Mark
G.E. We bring good thing to life
Since the leftist loons were trying to sue her into bankruptcy, she
made the smart move. Of course it would be unheard of for a
politician to make money on a book while still in office.
Up. _Up_ into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
Dave "get it RIGHT" DeLaney
--
\/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
> Richard the Dreaded Libertarian <freed...@example.net> wrote:
> >Probably the "liberal" media keep trotting her out to continue to rub
> >the Republicans' nose into the Obama win, which, BTW, is leading the
> >Republic down into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
>
> Up. _Up_ into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
Damn it, I was ASSURED it would be a topless abyss.
--
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- Doctroid
>> >Probably the "liberal" media keep trotting her out to continue to rub
>> >the Republicans' nose into the Obama win, which, BTW, is leading the
>> >Republic down into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
>>
>> Up. _Up_ into the bottomless abyss of Socialism.
>
> Damn it, I was ASSURED it would be a topless abyss.
Either way, please tell me Valerie Bertinelli is a socialist.
--oTTo--
> On Nov 18, 1:57�pm, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
> <freedom_...@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Of course! He can make much more money spreading his warmingist
>> propaganda.
>
> I tell ya what. You find a way to stop the North Pole, and the glaciers
> from melting as they are, so that we don't end up with a billion or two
> displaced illiterate "tourists", and...fix the weather too, ok?
Simple. Just send Reverend Gore to the sun to turn down the thermostat.
And, of course, develop nuclear rockets to "correct" Earth's orbital
perturbations.
Dupe.
Thanks,
Rich
>>> Of course! He can make much more money spreading his warmingist
>>> propaganda.
>>
>> I tell ya what. You find a way to stop the North Pole, and the glaciers
>> from melting as they are, so that we don't end up with a billion or two
>> displaced illiterate "tourists", and...fix the weather too, ok?
>
> Simple. Just send Reverend Gore to the sun to turn down the thermostat.
The shadow cast by his bloated body on the way there will
likely cause plenty of global cooling.
--oTTo--