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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Goodspeed wrote:Or maybe I'm getting tired of responding to someone whose only coherent input is "billionaires bad".
well. they are, inherently bad
There should not be any dollar billionaires, I agree with Sanders on this. Wtf should they spend all those money on, when so many ppl have a hard time to meet ends?
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iwillspankyou wrote:
Goodspeed wrote:Or maybe I'm getting tired of responding to someone whose only coherent input is "billionaires bad".
well. they are, inherently bad
There should not be any dollar billionaires, I agree with Sanders on this. Wtf should they spend all those money on, when so many ppl have a hard time to meet ends?
I'm honestly curious, what do you think the max amount of money one person can have should be?
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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I agree that there shouldn't be any (multi-) billionaires, for the record.
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do you know the reason why FEDs are printing money, as there were no tomorrow, these days?
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Goodspeed wrote:I agree that there shouldn't be any billionaires, for the record.
Okay, what do you think the max should be?
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Let's say any increase above $1b should be taxed >95%
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fightinfrenchman wrote:
Goodspeed wrote:I agree that there shouldn't be any billionaires, for the record.
Okay, what do you think the max should be?
There doesnā€™t need to be a ā€œmaxā€ to ones personal wealth, ie. there doesnā€™t need to be a point where someone is being taxed 100% of his income. It just needs to be 90%.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Why the arbitrary cut off?
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Because you asked for it. The number should obviously be based on more than a random person's intuition.
Oh and it should move with inflation.
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What if the majority of the person's money is held in stocks, like with most billionaires
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and all of those money has only one place to go, to the stock market, who is the only thing surging these days. (biggest bubble you have ever seen). The trillion-dollar the FED printed out over the 4 last weeks, are only to keep the marked saturated, because the Big Banks are starting to get really worried.
so you tell me smart pants @Goodspeed. This bubble will burst this year or the next one. Who would you trust in the white house, Butti or Sanders?
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fightinfrenchman wrote:What if the majority of the person's money is held in stocks, like with most billionaires
Why would that change anything? Wherever your value is, if it's over X and it increases, the increase should be taxed Y.
Where X is around $1b and Y ~95%
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iwillspankyou wrote:and all of those money has only one place to go, to the stock market, who is the only thing surging these days. (biggest bubble you have ever seen). The trillion-dollar the FED printed out over the 4 last weeks, are only to keep the marked saturated, because the Big Banks are starting to get really worried.
so you tell me smart pants @Goodspeed. This bubble will burst this year or the next one. Who would you trust in the white house, Butti or Sanders?
Either of them
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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2 ez @Goodspeed if not any of those, who would you prefer? I certainly would prefer Bernie, but that is just me, being to frank
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I'd trust either of them to do the right thing. That's my answer like it or not.
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The person I would most trust as president is Hillary
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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look it up, if you need more facts @Goodspeed
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Imagine your brain working like this

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Imagining the way your brain works hurts mine.
mad cuz bad
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n0el wrote:Imagining the way your brain works hurts mine.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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What happened to cause buttboi to surge in the Iowa polls?
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Amsel_ wrote:What happened to cause buttboi to surge in the Iowa polls?
Iowa being full of white people
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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fightinfrenchman wrote:
Amsel_ wrote:What happened to cause buttboi to surge in the Iowa polls?
Iowa being full of white people
Politics has been getting weird. I was sure that a republican would be the first to use a DNA to showing how White they are as an argument in support of their candidacy, but it ended up being Warren.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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fightinfrenchman wrote:Imagine your brain working like this

You'd almost think this person is heavily biased. Imagine getting your news there

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