Murder - For the Greater Good

Lagboltz · Feb 12, 2013

GenSeneca said: ↑

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OMG, You're right...Suggesting, gen--cide , wtf was I thinking?

I see your point and now realize that my proposal needs to appeal to a broader audience and not just other Progressives...

No problem, we Progressives are all about Compromise... So I think you'll find my changes make it much more "realistic" in the sense that it could easily be supported by a majority of voters.

We simply pass a "one-time-emergency" law that forces the top 1% to hand over some of their $66.5 Trillion in wealth by way of taxation. That newly liberated wealth would then be redistributed based on need. It would be trickle up wealth instead of trickle down poverty.

Murder? That's silly talk... We just want to pass one little temporary law that finally allows We The People to reclaim our fair share of the nation's wealth. There's certainly nothing controversial about redistributing wealth through taxation... We'll even be magnanimous and offer to let the 1%ers keep a full 25% of their wealth, you know, show them that we're not greedy, that we don't resent them for having wealth, and we should let everyone know just how much we regret having to ask that the 1% make such a sacrifice but explain to the people that it really is in the best interests of the country as a whole.

That "one-time-emergency" tax would net our wise and benevolent government just under $50 Trillion... Enough to solve all our nation's problems.

We can even throw a bone to the Conservatives and Tea Party radicals to get them on board... First order of business will be to pay off the entire $16 trillion dollar national debt... Can anyone refusing a chance to instantly eliminate the entire US debt consider themselves a fiscal conservative? I don't think so... and we still have $33 Trillion left over!

We could still end all homelessness, end all hunger, end all poverty, drastically reduce the wealth gap across the entire United States and still have at least $30 Trillion left over.

That one crazy Capitalist Randroid dude mentioned using a government surplus to start a sovereign wealth fund... According to him, that $30T would net a cool $1.5t per year at just 5% interest... That's a full 43% of the federal government's annual budget, which would not only eliminate the deficit and balance the budget but create a sizable surplus, and that 43% would come from earnings on investments made in his precious "free market", rather than coming from so called "coercive" taxation. How could he, or anyone else, object to any of that?

There... No more murder... Just a proposal for a one-time-emergency-and-we-promise-totally-temporary-tax on the top 1%... So is the proposal now "realistic" enough that you're willing to discuss it?

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Naw, I am satisfied with Obama's tax plan, but he really needs to sharply cut spending.

dogtowner · Feb 13, 2013

Lagboltz said: ↑

Naw, I am satisfied with Obama's tax plan, but he really needs to sharply cut spending.

thats anathema to him

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