Tax the rich

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"Expel troublemakers" To where? A school for troublemakers? Problem is the troublemakers mate and breed.

Spend more money on education? Ta da. The "more money will solve our problems" syndrome is about benefits for the BOE corporation not educating the students. Every been to a school meeting, we have your school psychiatrist, sometimes a school lawyer, a parent advocate, a counselor, several teachers, a director of the meeting, sometimes a social worker, maybe a parent will show up. Do you realize how much paper work this generates? :D

Everyone speaks their own language to draw up a remedial plan to get 4th grade Johnny to read. Have Johnny stay after school for assistance, Psy replies; "It'll ruin his self-esteem" Parent- "f that sh*t, nothing wrong with my kid, it's the teachers fault" The teachers says "He falls asleep in class" and so on and so forth. Bunch of bs but employs a lot of people.
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It's a complicated problem for sure. Bottom line though is if the families value education, the kids will learn. If they don't, all the money in the world won't change things.

As for troublemakers, i don;t reallycare where they send them. It seems obvious to me that one or two thugs can ruin an entire year for a class of kids who do want to learn. Most kids are followers. Get rid of the troublemakers and most will get with the program. Liberals seem to have an obsession with lowering everything to the lowest common denominator. They sacrifice the many to try in vain to save the dysfunctional. That mayb e a noble sentiment, but it's a lousy way to run a school system.
 
The inequality weakens a culture and makes it very vulnerable to economic attack from the inside or outside. That is it's value. It is valued by some with the power to promote it so it's not going to go away anytime real soon.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

It's a complicated problem for sure. Bottom line though is if the families value education, the kids will learn. If they don't, all the money in the world won't change things.

As for troublemakers, i don;t reallycare where they send them. It seems obvious to me that one or two thugs can ruin an entire year for a class of kids who do want to learn. Most kids are followers. Get rid of the troublemakers and most will get with the program. Liberals seem to have an obsession with lowering everything to the lowest common denominator. They sacrifice the many to try in vain to save the dysfunctional. That mayb e a noble sentiment, but it's a lousy way to run a school system.
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My brother in law was a teacher in a reform school. In his letter of resignation he stated that if he was allowed to kill two of his students he could teach the rest... and he was a liberal, probably still is.
 
"Liberals seem to have an obsession with lowering everything to the lowest common denominator."

I have a theory. I do think it began with McDonalds, the dumbing down of everything in the workplace. Make it so you can hire anyone and leave nothing to chance on job performance, every last detail is in the book. Registers display change, bells & timers, etc. Now it seems, society took its que's from MCD and must dumb down everything to the lowest denominator in the same way.
 
Why is tax so god damned hard?

Tax everyone 10%

No offsets, no tax breaks, no accountants, no loopholes

Earn a dollar or a billion.. 10%

How fucking hard is that?
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I despise these corporate hogs and their obscene comp packages, but I equally despise all this whining about inequality and social justice. The reason Brazil is poor is because they have long had a mismanaged economy, a large part of their population would rather party than work and they have a terrible corruption problem. Now the rule of law is also vanishing. They could wake up one day and find themselves living in a failed state, not unlike Iraq. No doubt they will find a way to blame it all on the US.

Here, it seems to me a few truths need to be recognized. I'll grant the liberals one point. Corporate compensation is out of whack. Corporate governance has totally failed when failed CEO's like Hank McKinnell of Pfizer walk away with $200 million packages. Maybe Bob Nardelli did a good job at GE. He still wasn't worth anything remotely like the $200 mill HD paid him. Even if he had been a big success at HD instead of a miserable failure, it wouldn't change anything. Ditto that Exxon guy who pocketed a huge package. What did he do that was so great other than being CEO of an oil company when oil prices skyrocketed? If you have to have that kind of money, start a hedge fund. Don't expect public shareholders to underwrite it. I support congress doing something to limit these packages, because the corporate governance mechanism is seriously broken.

On the other end of the income scale, no doubt it is tough to be born into slums. The schools suck, violence is rampant and your role model is a drug dealer. Sorry, but I refuse to take responsibility for it. These poor unfortunates are the same people who vote in corrupt hacks like Marion Barry and other big city liberals. Study after study has proved that there is no connection between the money spent on schools and the educational outcomes. Liberals' solution? Spend more money. My solution? Expel troublemakers, have a suffocating police presence and stop subsidizing dysfunctional behavior.

In this country the key to getting ahead is in getting a good education, but these underclass communities don't value education. In fact, they devalue it. A good student is ostracized for "acting white." There are huge amounts of scholarships available for minorities who are minimally qualified. It is not a matter of money but of attitude. The federal government doesn't have to spend billions to get urban youth to play basketball, but for some reason policy-makers think spending enormous sums is a necessity to get them to do something productive.

Personally, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being lectured about how it is my fault that they can't read or that they don't have health care. Maybe if they wouldn't have five kids out of wedlock and with no job, they wouldn't have these problems. I'm really sick of being expected to foot the bill for all their social problems and the incompetent bureaucracies liberals' policies have created.
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Maybe you should "be sick" about 47 million people not having health insurance, lack of affordable housing, huge discrepancies when it comes to school funding. (the richest school district in the US spends over $56.000 per student while the poorest is less than $5.000). Lack of any meaningful long term adequate social services to the poor and working class of America. When you compare what a poor person is entitled to in th US as opposed to other westernized countries, you will clearly see how little is being provided to those who need our help the most.
I am sick of people like you!
 
Tax and punish the productive and those that are running circles around me. They are making me look bad.

Tax and regulate the rich business owners and CEO's at 95%! Make those bleepers pay! And they will still have too much money to live on.

Make it so miserable for them that no one will take the risk of starting or running a business. Who needs a job anyway. Remove all incentive to achieve and make them dream of a life of crime, lottery tickets, casinos, trading stocks, and government assistance.

I'm in a rage of envy and jealousy. Those rich bastards. Make them suffer equal to the likes of me, as I am suffering in poverty. If I can't gather the ambition to achieve a bit of wealth, no one should be wealthy.

Of course I'm mad. I've always been mad.

But seriously, at least CEO's should be compensated by performance other than by stock price increases caused through no fault of their own. A stock can rise for no apparent reason other than being in the right sector. It would only be good for business.

Tax people or certain people too much, and it will alter their behavior. They will find loopholes, move off shore, not reinvest their earnings in riskier areas that need the capital to grow, not expand their business therefore fewer jobs, shrink the economy, etc.
 
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Why Income Inequality Matters
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"In other words, we care less about how much money we have than we do about how much money we have relative to everyone else. In a fascinating survey, Cornell economist Robert Frank found that a majority of Americans would prefer to earn $100,000 while everyone else earns $85,000, rather than earning $110,000 while everyone else earns $200,000.

Think about it: People would prefer to have less stuff, as long as they have more stuff than the neighbors.

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At a minimum, we should question whether a bigger pie is always better.

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Redistrubute wealth to spare people feelings of envy... Yes, stop economic growth and distrubute evenly the existing pie relying not on market forces but primarily on the opinions of some group of elitist-pinheads. Out with Adman Smith and in with Karl Marx, indeed.

And why is it that Wall Street Bankers are always used as worst-case examples? Why don't thes opinion-pieces ever reference Oprah Winfrey?

My All-Time Favorite, yet again:

Conservatives, liberals and reality
By George Will
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will053107.php3
 
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