The very rich fvcking the country as usual

[opie1988]

You know I have no intentions on stopping at a bachelor degree. Get my number from marbles. Gimme a ring sometime and maybe you can teach me why I should bow down to crooked CEO's.

You know I love 'ya. I have always thought you're one of the best & brightest. Still do.

[Emily_Haines]

i'm smarter then you pal

nope, biggest idiot on this forum

[Balco10]

Dante has no clue! How did they make their money? Some get rich and some don't and don't forget your president is a millionaire. Is he paying his fair share? His buddy CEO at GE doesn't pay taxes...but that is OK cuz he is a liberal.

[Balco10]

Obama has his mojo working with the wealthy being as bad Americans. Fair enough, OK all the wealthy leaves America, then what happens???? North Korea, Iran, Russia, Indonesia, and ect...

[SBR_John]

The Buffet Rule allowed unlimited contributions to charities and yes Obama Super Pacs are included. So in reality you give your money to the IRS or Obama's Super Pac. What a fine piece of partisan politics. Total waste of a time. Glad Obama is going to change the way we do business in Washington. Obama - The Divider.

[guitarjosh]

Capitalism will be the reason this country will fall further and further behind.

Capitalism is what made this country the wealthiest ever, and it is what created the middle class.

[MonkeyF0cker]

Look here, you hippie fukk......shouldn't you be running around nude at the Coachella Festival this week? Smoking dope and playing grab ass with all your gender neutral buddies??

Fukk paying more taxes simply because one makes more money. Why should you be penalized simply because you were able to rise above the norm? This is the fukkin' USA, PAL. CAPITALISM IN ITS FINEST FORM!!

Don't treat the forum like your own little personal grievance board against the gov't, pal. This ain't the Washington Post. How about you & Dax go light up a few j's and plant some fukkin' trees? Or just go defecate in that hole in your yard that doubles as a master bath.

Leave America's issues to Americans, pal. You're a fukkin Costa Rican. Worry about teaching your countrymen how to make ice cubes and potable water and then come see me again.

Being financially successful should come with a sense of responsibility and gratitude for the opportunities that one has been afforded by this country. Not everyone can be affluent in a civilized society. And those that are not are not necessarily there by poor decisions. There are many, many hardworking Americans out there who mightily struggle to make ends meet. Wealth is not acquired without the contributions of others in a society - whether its public schooling and the foundations of that person's education, a culture that allowed for the uninhibited opportunity to pursue their prospective career, employees/apprentices/laymen who contribute the building blocks to the success of that person's career, mentors and pioneers who layed the groundwork in the industry in order to make their career possible, the customers that purchase their products, etc. That person should have the sensibility and humility to appreciate those people's contributions to society and their own financial well-being and attempt to take some of the burden off of their backs.

Or they could hoard it all like a common rodent and flaunt it in all of those people's collective face while they struggle to put food on the table.

Just don't start crying like a sissy when they're so desperate that they turn on you and string you up from a tree.

[jjgold]

All I have to say on the subject is don't touch and inheritance tax

We are all in agreement Obama destroyed USA.......he was so unqualified and it showed the last 4 years

[Easy-Rider 66]

romney will be president and so America will be great again so you better get used to it ok pal?

Here is a primer on what is going to happen:

Slash taxes, mostly for rich people
Medicaid - GONE
Medicare - GONE
Social Security - GONE
Welfare - GONE
Guns free to defend yourself
Christian values in schools and public places
Sharia Law - yeah right, NOT A CHANCE son
Terrorists - slaughtered
Muslims - back to where they came from, NOT IN THE US
Illegal immigrants - back to where they came from
Wall St regulations - GONE
business regulations - GONE
insurance regulations - GONE
bank regulations - GONE
jobs regulations - GONE
Unions - DONE
minimum wage - GONE

got it pal? in other words, the country will be the way it was MEANT to be and the way it was when we started

plan accordingly or move to greece

Survival of the fittest according to Carpe Dime. Welcome to the jungle, we got what you need.

[Cougar Bait]

What makes a CEO crooked? Because he had the balls to risk everything at one point and was a success?

He makes a bunch more because he deserves it, he took the risk. In fact, he also took a risk in hiring people. Anyone have any idea how much it actually costs a business to hire someone?

Life isn't fair and it's never going to be. A lot of babies in this thread crying should either pick up a book or pick up a gun and do us all a favor.

[Sportsbetting123]

A flat tax is the best answer, but it will never get adopted.

[opie1988]

What makes a CEO crooked? Because he had the balls to risk everything at one point and was a success?
He makes a bunch more because he deserves it, he took the risk. In fact, he also took a risk in hiring people. Anyone have any idea how much it actually costs a business to hire someone?
Life isn't fair and it's never going to be. A lot of babies in this thread crying should either pick up a book or pick up a gun and do us all a favor.

Let's also not forget that Deuce was referring to the CEO's of the wprld's top companies. The reality is that those guys pretty much deserve whatever they make. There is only a handful of people in the world capable of doing their job, so why shouldn't they make those kinds of salaries? Funny how Deuce wasn't complaining about the money some athletes are making. Whats the difference?

I have the opportunity to work closely with some top CEO's, and I'm here to tell you that it is a humbling task. You realize rather quickly that God truly blessed some businessmen with much greater gifts than others.

[Easy-Rider 66]

Let's also not forget that Deuce was referring to the CEO's of the wprld's top companies. The reality is that those guys pretty much deserve whatever they make. There is only a handful of people in the world capable of doing their job, so why shouldn't they make those kinds of salaries? Funny how Deuce wasn't complaining about the money some athletes are making. Whats the difference?

I have the opportunity to work closely with some top CEO's, and I'm here to tell you that it is a humbling task. You realize rather quickly that God truly blessed some businessmen with much greater gifts than others.

The major difference with athletes/actors is they provide entertainmnet. Nobody needs the services they provide,(Unless you work in the industry) while some CEO's run companies that people depend upon for basic services to live. Think they deserve to make a lot of cash, but some of these pay packages are a little much when put into perspective to what the little man is making. Someone once told me- the higher you go up the ladder, the easier the work and the more money you make. In some instances, believe this to be true.

[infamousbacardi]

Sammy

Explain to me Prof. Odom how corporate moguls get away with making 431 times the wage laborer. How is that good for the economy? How is that just? Why isn't this the case in countries like Japan?

Because he's responsible for ensuring that 431 of those wage laborers have jobs next month you ignorant fukk

[cant call it]

Who else caught the part about "voluntary compliance"


What is that exactly?

[PAULYPOKER]

romney will be president and so America will be great again so you better get used to it ok pal?

Here is a primer on what is going to happen:

Slash taxes, mostly for rich people
Medicaid - GONE
Medicare - GONE
Social Security - GONE
Welfare - GONE
Guns free to defend yourself
Christian values in schools and public places
Sharia Law - yeah right, NOT A CHANCE son
Terrorists - slaughtered
Muslims - back to where they came from, NOT IN THE US
Illegal immigrants - back to where they came from
Wall St regulations - GONE
business regulations - GONE
insurance regulations - GONE
bank regulations - GONE
jobs regulations - GONE
Unions - DONE
minimum wage - GONE

got it pal? in other words, the country will be the way it was MEANT to be and the way it was when we started

plan accordingly or move to greece

Civil War-GUARANTEED

[opie1988]

Because he's responsible for ensuring that 431 of those wage laborers have jobs next month you ignorant fukk

Infamous gets it. Deucer is an ignorant fukk!! I agree!!

[andywend]

The Dante's, Bean Mayan's, McBain's, Deuce's and all the liberal left-wing fanatics spend their entire lives in total envy of the wealthy.

They are all FAILURES who would never amount to anything in 100 lifetimes. Instead of using all that energy to try and better themselves, they whine and cry like spoiled little children who aren't getting the candy bar they want.

Since they can't achieve financial success on their own, they want to tear apart anyone who can. Liberal democrats are small-minded simpletons who believe if they can't have the finer things in life, THEN NOBODY SHOULD!!!

On the flip side, there are plenty of fine middle class people who vote republican because they are rational people who don't blame the wealthy for being financially successful.

Obama is trying as hard as he can to play the class warfare card to try and win re-election and while this strategy will most definitely garner even a higher percentage of the vote of the small-minded simpletons, it will cost him plenty of independent votes as he's acting like a beggar with a tin cup in his hand.

The true reason why eliteist white liberal democrats like Warren Buffett say the things they do is they don't want to be hated by the MSM.

There is one easy way to solve all of our country's deficit problems and somewhere down the line, its going to happen:

Legislation will eventually be passed in the form of a "net worth" tax which will tax an individual's entire net worth a designated percentage each and every year while they are alive (starting with net worth's say $10,000,000 and above).

Watch how quickly the Warren Buffett's, Barbara Streisand's, Michael Moore's of the world do an 180 degree about face in their stance on higher taxes if talk of a "net worth" tax started to surface.

[Deuce]

Because he's responsible for ensuring that 431 of those wage laborers have jobs next month you ignorant fukk

Is he though? Aren't they responsible for ensuring he has a job? Aren't they as the consumer the ones that make sure the world goes round? Isn't the consumer the most precious piece to capitalism? Without consumer purchasing power the CEO may as well set up shop in the men's room handing out mints and offering cologne samples. 431 is quite the minuscule sample size of employees for a corporation too. Just saying. The CEO is a puppet. Figure head with genius advisors.

[Easy-Rider 66]

Is he though? Aren't they responsible for ensuring he has a job? Aren't they as the consumer the ones that make sure the world goes round? Isn't the consumer the most precious piece to capitalism? Without consumer purchasing power the CEO may as well set up shop in the men's room handing out mints and offering cologne samples.

Good point. The knife cuts both ways on this one. As someone once said- the large stones do not lay so well without the smaller ones.

[Deuce]

Andy

I am the biggest advocate to getting g what you deserve. Hard work pays off and success is earned not given. The excessive wages that CEO's make is out of control and downright disgusting. Do some research.

[Deuce]

I'm the ignorant one though. Yes, yes I am. Although I see from the piece I read a few months back that it has only grown since the publishing date. Interesting.

[Deuce]

The Dante's, Bean Mayan's, McBain's, Deuce's and all the liberal left-wing fanatics spend their entire lives in total envy of the wealthy.

They are all FAILURES who would never amount to anything in 100 lifetimes. Instead of using all that energy to try and better themselves, they whine and cry like spoiled little children who aren't getting the candy bar they want.

Since they can't achieve financial success on their own, they want to tear apart anyone who can. Liberal democrats are small-minded simpletons who believe if they can't have the finer things in life, THEN NOBODY SHOULD!!!

On the flip side, there are plenty of fine middle class people who vote republican because they are rational people who don't blame the wealthy for being financially successful.

I vote republican. I don't expect handouts. I don't expect the government to take care of me. I expect the distribution of wealth to be disbursed accordingly to an inflating market per the corporations. There is a reason that big oil execs are profiting in great figures because they simply pass the buck down the line to the consumer. The consumer is battling inflation with dwindling interest rates and skyrocketing fuel costs. The fuel costs are passed down the line from the farmers to the transportation to the grocers and finally with the consumers. The consumers are the small business owners too who are hurt in the pockets. They aren't able to afford to pay their employees because the cost of living has since increased. At some point wages can't remain stagnant and compensation of the deserving needs to take place. The initiative needs to start from corporations not the government. Crack downs on welfare programs needs to be implemented and more accountability needs to take place.

But I am quite the liberal, I expect the world to be given to me while I buck dance and lick boots of CEO's. I guess that is why it is 5:45am and my face is buried in a text book preparing for an exam in 4 hours. The university I am attending is only to make myself look better in social situations, it is not because I want to make economic advancements for myself. Oh, btw, I am paying for my tuition on my own, making ends meet trading hours for dollars without taking social handouts. Because I am so liberal I refuse to join the rest of the students in regards to obtaining welfare. I am so liberal that I believe in advancing through education instead of believing that I should be given a job.

[Iwinyourmoney]

My uncle was the CEO of a major trucking company (retired now). Ima get his take on this thread and report back

[Deuce]

Infamous gets it. Deucer is an ignorant fukk!! I agree!!

[King Mayan]

bros, i envy the rich..

Also, all the liberals in California are simpletons and dont enjoy the finer things in life..



Andy how are those government checks?? Do you get a tax credit for that trailer??

[andywend]

Deuce, reducing the salary of CEO's is NOT going to solve any of our country's problems as there just isn't enough of them floating around to make a difference.

Also, becoming a CEO of a major company is extremely difficult and you have to be incredibly talented and totally work driven to achieve the position.

As long as the business is in the private sector, they should be allowed to pay their CEO"s whatever they damn well please. Now the CEO's of Government Motors and all the businesses that got bailed out by the government, its a whole different story.

If our country's problems were small enough where raising taxes on the millionaires and billionaires would do the trick, I would have a completely different view on taxes. However, tax rates being too low are NOT the problem. Its the out of control government spending that needs to be dealt with.

EVERY SINGLE TIME the republicans and democrats have comprimised on various issues over the past several decades, the republicans give up things they want in return for promises made by the democrats to overhaul runaway government spending and the democrats NEVER do it. They always give reasons like children will starve, people won't be able to go to college and when there are heated standstills, the democrats talk about closing all the parks, etc.

There are overlapping government agencies everywhere and the democratic party just refuses to downsize an extremely bloated government workforce with benefits you wouldn't believe.

Until the democratic party is willing to go through all government expenditures and make the massive spending cuts that are needed, I will continue to oppose tax increases on anybody. Its time for the federal and state governments to start making some real cuts and both social security and medicare have to be on the table as either of those democratic party disasters will bankrupt this nation all by their lonesome.

Also, all the liberals in California are simpletons and dont enjoy the finer things in life..

The liberal politicians in the California state legislature have bankrupted the state. Very tough times ahead for California.

Andy how are those government checks?? Do you get a tax credit for that trailer ??

If I was collecting government assistance checks, I would be a liberal democrat just like you. I am NOT eligible for any of the tax credits that were enacted by President Bush as those credits get completely phased out if you make over $110,000/annually (so much for the democratic party bullshit of the Bush tax cuts only helping the wealthy).

I get a tax credit on my home as I am able to deduct my mortgage interest.

[SBR_John]

I'm the ignorant one though. Yes, yes I am. Although I see from the piece I read a few months back that it has only grown since the publishing date. Interesting.

Gotta love this. And how many Exxon's, Apple's and Microsofts and BankAmerica's do those Mexico's have? Its like crying that managers in double AA baseball like the Toledo Mud Hens do not make as much as the NY Yankees manger. duh. Its a free market and American dream to work hard and reach the top.

[King Mayan]

sure guy, ^^ just like these dumbfukks are liberals??

And California is bankrupt??

We're the 8th largest economy in the world. What makes you think we would'nt be in debt like the rest of the big economies???

[RubberKettle]

Capitalism will be the reason this country will fall further and further behind.

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever seen Deuce post.

Deuce you sad fat ****. Hope this was just from Wings going down 3-1 and not a display of your mental capacity.

[RubberKettle]

Okay so 15% is going through the sieve that is the US tax system.

This is $385,000,000,000.00 that's a fukkin big as number right? Hell yea!

This could pay for the debt we accrue of the next 110 days.

What about the other 255.2424 days?

[opie1988]

Guys....go easy on Deuce. Remember, Deucer is a SELF-PROCLAIMED CONSERVATIVE.

Don't most Conservatives want to take money from the hardest working, sharpest folks that we have in the country and divvy it up amongst those deemed "less fortunate" simply because they don't make as much?? How dare the CEO of GE make way more than the guy sweeping the floors of one of the thousands of factories the CEO is solely responsible for??

Deuce....you simpleton dumbfukk. I hope you realize that with your current mindset the only lawyer you'll ever be is for a non-profit firm.

Deuce can be our very own Erin Brockovich! (....only much, much fatter.)

[opie1988]

Is he though? Aren't they responsible for ensuring he has a job? Aren't they as the consumer the ones that make sure the world goes round? Isn't the consumer the most precious piece to capitalism? Without consumer purchasing power the CEO may as well set up shop in the men's room handing out mints and offering cologne samples. 431 is quite the minuscule sample size of employees for a corporation too. Just saying. The CEO is a puppet. Figure head with genius advisors.

You are one ignorant, clueless fukk if you are really that out of touch with what it takes to run a business.

[Deuce]

Gotta love this. And how many Exxon's, Apple's and Microsofts and BankAmerica's do those Mexico's have? Its like crying that managers in double AA baseball like the Toledo Mud Hens do not make as much as the NY Yankees manger. duh. Its a free market and American dream to work hard and reach the top.

Japan, Germany, and Italy? What is the excuse there?

[King Mayan]

Theres plenty of CEO's in mexico...

You forget the richest man in the world is mexican.