re: I find it interesting that a pro athlete can get paid $25million a year....

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As are doctors and you dipshits bitch about our incomes (which are quite lower) all the damn time

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Well that's just not true and a fundamental misunderstanding of what both the health care and income debates are all about.

Income inequality itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. IE rose in the 90's as well and it wasn't an issue because everyone's income was rising. That's no longer the case and the perception, rightly or wrongly, is that wealth gains at the top are now coming at the expense of the middle and lower classes. Personally I think its a lot more complicated than that and I don't really "blame" anyone for the most part but it does make me roll my eyes when rich people butch about those oppressive tax rates (ignoring that the federal top bracket is taxed much less today than it was for previous generations)

I really don't care what a politician said about it, stop painting all liberals with that brush unless you'd like me to assume that all of you believe a woman's "body can shut that whole thing down" or that you can see Russia from your house is good foreign policy experience.