US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem

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  1. Longshot

    Longshot Well-Known Member

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    I'm not attacking you personally. I'm just saying that I can't agree with your lust to dominate your fellow man. I don't consider my neighbors subjects to my will.
     
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    I thought you were advocating taking people's property by force. That sounds pretty violent to me.
     
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    No, I’m talking about taxation and the voluntary contract you entered into. Not the made up bullshit you keep trying to pretend I said.
     
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    I don't agree with your idea that my fellow man has "voluntarily" entered into any contract. I am not buying into your violent schemes against my fellow man.
     
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    Which is irrelevant to the fact that you,and they, have agreed to it.

    Because I don’t have any.
     
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    I don't buy into your contention that my neighbor has agreed to have his property stolen. I don't condone violent theft.
     
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    Nobody is stealing his property.

    Nobody is violently stealing from you.
     
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    I can't get on board with your plan. It doesn't seem right to tell my neighbor that he's entered into some sort of contract when he hasn't actually done so.
     
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    It isn’t my plan, and you’re already on board.

    But he has, and so did you. Voluntarily.
     
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    So my neighbor entered into a contract with me by doing what exactly?
     
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    Being a US citizen, and remaining inside US borders.
     
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    So, you're telling me that if my neighbor doesn't leave his residence then he has entered into a contract with me? So he needs to buy windows and siding?
     
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    Do you think making **** up is in any way a valid argument?
     
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    haha, of course not. but you said that a contract is effective if a person doesn't leave their place of residence. so, by your "logic", i could have a contract with my neighbor to buy a set of encyclopedias simply because she hasn't moved away.
     
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    Your disingenuous attempt to distort the validity of the government OF the People and FOR the People is glaringly obvious. We the People govern ourselves. If you can't figure out the stark difference between being "dominated" and a democracy then that is your problem, not mine!
     
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    I don't agree with your position that I have a right to steal from my fellow man. Sorry.
     
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    That is NOT my position, it is your bizarre DISTORTION of REALITY.
     
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    It is. You advocate taking your neighbors property by force. I can't get behind such a scheme. I don't agree with you that I have a right to steal from my fellow man.
     
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    No, this is you making **** up.
     
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    You don't understand what the term 'contract' means.
     
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    Yes I do. You made **** up and pretended I said it. That’s called a strawman I have been perfectly clear in this thread. You voluntarily agreed to the social contract, and you will continue paying your taxes. You are free to break that contract at any time, but your “libertarian principles” aren’t really very strong, which is why you haven’t and won’t.
     
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    Oh dear! I think you've upset them!

    Why is it so hardvfor people to understand that it is impossible to validly confer a right to a group that you do not have as as individual.

    Taxation is theft.

    "Social contracts" isn't based upon sounds reasoning and thus aren't valid, let alone a valid contract.
     
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    Good luck with your law suit! You'll have the time, given the cliched outlook is so efficient.
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, I can believe that - high moral principles. Based upon the precept that, indeed, we are all created equal and should all have equal opportunity.

    Which in turn means a Tertiary Education (vocational, Associate, Bachelor, Doctorate) free, gratis and for nothing that will allow our children jobs that are rewarding both financially and intellectually!

    PS: Just like a secondary-schooling today where we are approaching 100% of student achievement!
     
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    I admire your desire to give your resources to provide your neighbors with a free education.

    But somehow I think you're going to call for confiscating others' property to achieve your ends. I can't get on board with taking my neighbor's property by force.
     

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