That’s funny Kewp. Isn’t it called a “False Choice”? Falling back on the false choice defense as an intellectual argument is weak. Most any political, economic, or social issue has more than two distinct and exclusive alternatives. I suppose I could have asked the Google employees whether Sergey’s tie was blue or red. Would that have satisfied you?
I asked those particular questions to make a point. They were somewhat rhetorical. Besides, what is your point? I think quite a few employees would not like the fact that Sergey pays a smaller percentage of his income in taxes (assuming of course that he actually does – I will also assume that you have no idea if that is factually true or not). Then again there are probably some that would not care one bit. I would be one of those people. Look at what he’s created and the jobs he’s provided. Why should I care if he pays any taxes or not?
The true false choice is looking only at the amount of taxes he pays individually and comparing that with what one of his employees pays. What about Google’s corporate taxes? If he hadn’t created Google then all those employees would probably not be paying as much in income taxes either. How about the sales taxes that result from the sale of products? Sales taxes on the products and services Google employees buy with their income? Shouldn’t he get some credit for all of that as well?
Underdose, I’m certainly not naive enough to believe that there are not CEO’s, politicians, or certain rich citizens that try , and do, take advantage of both the system and the lower earning population. Jamie Dimon is definitely taking advantage of his situation and will make millions because of it. In fact, I’m not really posting to defend the rich etc. I’m posting because certain posters on this board continuously insinuate that if you don’t see things their way you are essentially a close-minded uneducated idiot. The behavior is a common quirk of left leaning “intellectuals”. I normally do not post because I usually have more productive things to do. Sometimes, however, I can not take the incessant condescending arrogance.
The real problem for Kewp, TheBreeze and others in their everlasting quest to have government help others is that I just don’t really care about others. Why should I fund a health care system for a bunch of obese, smoking, drinking blobs that refuse to take care of themselves? Why should I bail out someone who extracted every last dime out of their property to spend on idiotic toys to prop up their own self esteem and are now getting foreclosed? Why should I bail out Lehman, or Fannie, or social security, or medicare. I don’t care about any of them. Let them all crash and burn.
A top and bottom purge would be nice. And, if the money spigot shuts off a purge will occur. But it won’t be pretty.
