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

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  1. struth

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    Not really
     
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    It must be our stalinist president
     
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    The similarities are amazing.

    Trump is the living embodiment of stalin
     
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    I guess they both are a little husky. One buys his food, the other took it by controlling the means of production...what socialist do...and what Obama and the Dems did with the auto industry. Very scary
     
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    Yes Trump is a Stalinist. I imagine he will need to start building his camps soon. I guess Alaska can serve as his siberia
     
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    If Trump was a stalinist, you would be in a gulag for saying this or worse.

    The fact is you don't know how bad stalinism is.

    In the global hierarchy of socialists, american leftists are the laughing stock.
     
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    The book (Animal Farm) was written to describe in a very critical way the Russian commie revolution in 1917. It in no way supports socialism.
     
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    Source for your claim?
     
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    To quote from Wikipedia.

    In the preface of a 1947 Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, he explained how escaping the communist purges in Spain taught him "how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries".
     
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    Yep. Living is simply brutal for the 40 some percent who pay no Federal taxes. Things are so brutal we even force people who pay no taxes to receive EITC tax "refunds."
     
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    Liberals believe the economy is a zero sum game. They may have been right when wealth was represented by a finite resource (gold) which is no longer the case.
     
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    Here is an individual who got kicked out of hippy commune for not working, yet he he has done great as a liberal politician by promising free stuff.
     
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    It takes a special type of 'aptitude' to deliberately become so lazy and worthless that all a person does is live off of handout government welfare.

    It is entirely different for unfortunate people who are afflicted with terrible diseases, horrible injuries, birth defects, etc., that prevent them from being able to work and support themselves. These people should be provided with all the support and assistance they need.

    But the ones who simply sit on their dead asses and figure out ways to "suck on the government straw"...? They're nothing but worthless PARASITES.

    [​IMG] Leech mouth, well-adapted to suck blood. The human variety is closely related....
     
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    Understand things?

    Like how ridiculous RW Shills (who have nothing to offer the topic) appear when they spam immature memes?

    You may have a point.

    Oh and back on topic, I seriously doubt that any of de Blasio's musings will come to fruition.
     
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    Stalin died in '53, the Berlin Wall was started Aug '61.
     
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    You may be wrong, Andy... de Blasio's little brain-farts could indeed become very active possibilities. Why would I say that?

    Because some among us have actually elected something-for-nothing, "socialism-lite" morons like Ocasio-Cortez, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris, among several others, including de Blasio. A population that will elect creatures like those is capable of doing anything.... :spin:
     
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    De Blasio is a democrat, no?

    Hopefully the cartoon is helping you learn, because you just made my point for me.
     
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    In addition to being a socialist, he's a history buff.
     
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    One thing's for sure, LW trolls on PF who rarely post anything other than one-liner flamebait won't fix it.
     
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    I will believe it when I see it.

    Until then?

    It is just ALARMIST BS spewing from the RW.
     
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    How much excess fair share should they be paying and how little of their fair share should the bottom 50% be paying? What's fair about that?
     
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    Those that have the most can pay the most. That is fair
     
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    They do, a lot...the takers just take more because the system isn’t designed to get them off it.
     

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