re: CNN: The US would be better off with fewer billionaires

Yes it is beyond broken and cannot be fixed. Massive in our face corruption has taken 100% control of the system and it is nothing short of an all out affront to destroy the middle class and move to one NWO. The goal is an Uber rich with the ruling oligarchs and their serfs begging for food, water, shelter and medical.

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guess these people are advocating for Federal confiscation of stock shares where they take over publicly traded companies?

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I was thinking more along the lines of a wealth tax. If your net worth is tied up in stocks, you have to sell those stocks for cash to pay the government.

I don't know how that kind of stuff would play out, but I just imagine people lining up like vultures to wait for Bezos to sell Amazon stock every year to pay his Bernie tax

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As the concentration of wealth in our country accelerates, an increasingly small sliver of the population enjoys an increasingly large say over how wealth and power are distributed. And make no mistake: Wealth is concentrating.

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The stupidity of this line of thinking is sickening, especially coming from a company claiming to be the “most trusted name in news”.


Wealth isn’t a zero sum game. The real world isn’t like a fricking Monopoly game where the players can only amass however much money came with the game. Someone amassing a billion dollars in wealth doesn’t mean that is a billion less dollars others can earn.

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There’s no denying that the greedy a-holes have bought and paid for American politicians

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Bernie said this in the last debate.

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Sometimes politicians are even bought and paid for by other politicians. Right, Bernie?

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2008 Dem Primary and General -- Obama
2012 Dem Primary and General -- Obama
2016 GOP Primary -- Kasich
2016 General -- Hillary

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I'm very much a moderate

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You very much aren't.

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He's a loudmouthed, narcissistic, dumb, populist criminal.

I judge the candidate, not the party.

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No, you base your decisions on emotion. That's not moderate.

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2000 GOP Primary-- Voted for Alan Keyes
2000 General -- voted for Dubya
2004 GOP Primary and General -- voted for Dubya
2008 Dem Primary and General -- Obama
2012 Dem Primary and General -- Obama
2016 GOP Primary -- Kasich
2016 General -- Hillary

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I'm very much a moderate

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the rightward lurch of the GOP

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In what ways?

The modern GOP is the Clinton-era Democratic Party.

The Democrats have lurched so far left that Bernie “let me praise Cuba, China, and the USSR comrade” Sanders is the party’s front runner.



You are about as moderate as Karl Marx if you believe the Republican Party is too right wing and the Democratic Party is moderate.

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Wealth isn’t a zero sum game. The real world isn’t like a fricking Monopoly game where the players can only amass however much money came with the game. Someone amassing a billion dollars in wealth doesn’t mean that is a billion less dollars others can earn.


Scares the shite out of me as a business owner.

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It’s our own damn fault for allowing our schools to be taken over by Marxist Socialist Progressives who have repurposed our education system into political indoctrination facilities. This is why probably over half the people 40 and under have absolutely no idea how a free market economic system actually works.

Wealth isn’t a finite resource such as coal or iron ore. If it were then the world would still look pretty much as it did thousands of years ago. Societies would never advance because their wealth would never grow over what was already amassed.

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The Bible

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Irrelevant in a discussion about economic philosophies

You voted for W, Obama and Hillary! Oof that’s just bad, can’t believe you admitted that.