We are the 1%; We stand with the 99%

Grandluxe · Oct 13, 2011

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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px;">I was born into the 1%. After 6 years of higher education and 2 degrees, I have no debt because my family paid for me to go to school. I love my family and all they have done for me. I hate our unequal economic system. I will continue to fight for equality and redistribution of wealth. I am the 1%. I stand with the 99%.
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Grandluxe · Oct 13, 2011

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seneca_roman · Oct 13, 2011

Seems all these 1%'rs were born into money aka limousine liberals; we're not hearing from the parents/family who MADE the money.

Seneca

TulsaTrader · Oct 13, 2011

Since these people seem so eager to give their money away, shouldn't they be in support of lower taxes. That way they get to decide who gets their money?

jeb9999 · Oct 13, 2011

This is pure nonsense.

These guilty wealthy people can donate all their wealth to the government any time they want to. So can Warren Buffet and his pals. They don't want to part with their wealth, they just want other people to pay for their politics.

Talk is very cheap. I see lots of words written on signs. So, when do they put up and write the huge donation checks to the government?

I'm not holding my breath.

As an aside, why don't these people just give up their wealth and move to a country where wealth has already been distributed? Cuba is one of the finest examples of wealth redistribution in the world today and has free education and free health care and lovely left wing politics. Should be perfect for these people.

nutmeg · Oct 13, 2011

Typical.

How many of you know a child of a business owner who didn't carry on that business? I know plenty. Dumb fucks would rather punch a clock than do what it takes to run a business.

Basically, because they grew up with no money problems. They will though. I'd like to revisit these people in about 10 years.

They have no respect for money.

chaykapwr · Oct 13, 2011

Nobody can seem to answer one simple question

Why cant they just write a check for 95% of their wealth and mail it to the IRS?

And if all of these people "hate" how their parents made money, why do they keep spending it? Move the fuck out, make your own money in your own way. Hypocritcal bastards. Yea, my paretns paid for 6 years of college BUT I hate how they made their money.

They wont mail the check to the IRS because they will only pay if EVERYONE pays. They want to pay higher taxes only if someone else is paying the same shit.

dumb_mother · Oct 13, 2011

if they were really all that wealthy they wouldn't be scrawling on cardboard like a homeless person.

Petsamo · Oct 13, 2011

Quote from chaykapwr:
Why cant they just write a check for 95% of their wealth and mail it to the IRS?

People have the ability to write checks to the government. Very few people do, especially the liberals.

Kazak_Trader · Oct 13, 2011

So what about all of those people who actually earned their wealth and weren't born into it? Is it fair to suddenly make them pay double?