Mayor de Blasio Says Wealth Is ‘in the Wrong Hands,’ Pledges to Redistribute It

Yes, he has some delusional aspirations beyond mayor of NYC.
He doesn't have power to do any of what he proposes without approval by his mostly democrat and socialist city council. Still, he can expect opposition and legal challenges that may not end well for the creepy jerk.

 

Forget Trump for a minute. What do you think about a rich person who only donates a mere $350 for charity?

 

Libs seem to only want to spend other peoples money. In 1997 VP Al Gore donated $353 to charity.

 

Its not for lack of the record tax revenues we are collecting why do you seem confused over revenue and spending?

And that will be a downfall but then who creates the artificial intellegence? Who creates the machines? Where has this government run socialistic society worked and produced more economic and social freedom and liberty? Did it take the government to move us from horse and buggy to automobiles?

Why would I not expect them to live in better times especially if they are more able to act in their own self interest? When I turned 21 there was no robotics or personal computers or even business computing on a large scale. Look now, were I 21 I would be getting my certification in one or the other. Its the free market and personal self interest that best adapts. NOT a centraliszed government bureaucracy.

 

Lack of an intellegent response noted.

 

False and Romney averaged 21% effective tax rate. You pick one person, the bottom 25% pay not only a zero tax rate but a POSITIVE rate they make money off the tax system.
2014 effective tax rates
Top 1% - 33.6%
Top 10% - 27.6%
Top quintile - 26.7%
Middle quintile - 14%
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average-federal-tax-rates-all-households

Stop making false claims and spouting leftist canards

 

Not like it did and then when the Clinton administration thought it wasn fair the big techs were doing so and investors were making too much money and government needed to oversee it and went after Microsoft and break it up we had the dot.com bust.

 

What's Not Socialism.What the Democrats are becoming ,more and more
each hour of every day.It's a scam.No different than when Obama ran around
in 2008 saying ... " I'm a Moderate,Compromising,Pragmatic,
Middle-of-the-Road,Politician."

 

The good part of all of this New Socialism being openly flaunted by the
democrats is they are now reduced to making sure they show us who they
really are.Since Truth and the American Way was never really on their side.
Take for example Slavery and Jim Crow.No Republican pol ever owned
a slave.The KKK and Jim Crow were created by the Democrats.
Just like L.B.J. { a bigot } and his Great Society.
It was created in order to Guarantee that " Blacks " would be votin'
Democrat for the next 200 years.But L.B.J. liked using the " N "
word.Johnson dint use the word " Blacks " in his guarantee,either.

 

I meant what I said very seriously.

Failure to debate thru no response noted

 

I think it shows why candidates should have to release their taxes

 

I guess we are in agreement but if Trump has to release his tax info Congress should also have to release their tax info.

 

That aint free. Hence the social mobility in the US is rather poor. Rich people -on average- simply buy their way through success with college degrees that are predominantly out of reach of the poor. The statistics don't lie.

 

Its not free, nor should it be. If you want it you will have to work for it-but it will pay off.

Social mobility is better here, hence people floating to the US on rafts.

Im sure there are rich people who buy there way to success, I know poor people that used nepotism for the same thing.

Competence should be king here.

 

Well people in high income families also break up all the time. But here is the kicker of it all.... low income causes stress, and that stress combined with low income leads to more divorces. That is what rich people cause by underpaying their employees that much that they need food stamps to make ends meet.

 

irrelevant that a hard working person should be able to get a honest day wage.

 

I sourced in post 141 that the social mobility in the US is crap and it got worse since the 1970's.
That is founded on research, not an opinion.

 

Thats true, the difference is when high income families break up, the kids dont end up poor.

Where as when the same happens with the poor, it all but assures poverty.

Im not saying all of the poor make poor decisions.

Im saying many do, and we can't ignore that.

over 70% of black children are born out of wedlock.

Being born out of wedlock is a recipe for poverty and is another example of a poor decision.

Explain how thats systemic?

Is it out of the realm of possibility that people who make poor choices in one area tend to make them in others, and that it may make them poor?

 

paying 25 million in bonuses to the executives who made that happen.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/16/business/sears-executive-bonuses/index.html

 

only too the ignorant that have been propagandized to believe that wealth is finite so one having more causes another to have less

 

My Corporate experience tells me it is the board of directors making those decisions and not the executive suite.

 

Wealth has so many sources even fish in the ocean are wealth, trees in the forest are wealth, aluminum to be mined or actually mined is wealth, iron ore is wealth. Hell the list is so long we can spend a lot of time describing the wealth of the wealthy.

Does the Mayor plan to count the fish or crabs or lobsters and divvy up that wealth?

 

My grandson can be a great example. He will be paid salary very soon, when he graduates from the university but he will rake in all told, from his salary to his signing bonus and his stocks around $107.50 per hour. Not bad for a college graduate.

Wonder who DeBlasio thinks is more deserving of my grandsons income?

 

The poor can't pay it... hence the social mobility in the US sucks. And the poor are poor, because the rich get tax breaks and governmental help to underpay the poor.

 

And so if they are born out of wedlock.... does this justify to refuse to pay a honest day wages for a honest day work?