Oh no, not another purity pony leaving the Democratic party because a process vote didn’t go their way! Say it aint so! You’re not really leaving are you, I mean, Sanders supporters (he’s never been a fucking Democrat) are so well versed in parliamentary procedure regarding things like caucuses and now they have had…

He’ll always be my President.

Your whole piece is centered around people earning it, and I deliberately singled out the inheritance cases, who “earned” jack and shit. Fucking ridiculous.

Ah yes, let’s create this nonexistent equivalency where a working class dude like me on a modest income and savings is widely seen as being required to do more sharing to end inequality. That’s the issue, not the billionaires and their loopholes and rapaciousness and off-shore tax havens. I’m the problem, me and my…

They paid in as well. So, negating that, it boils back down to the same thing. I should have their money because I want it.

Um, no. Said factory owner didn’t pay for the entire cost of roads/police/firemen/education (to say NOTHING of a regulatory environment that ensures a certain level of certitude in business dealings); they paid a fraction of it as part of the pool that we all pay into. Therefore, the factory owner should be able to…

If you include one more fallacious argument in your post I think you get a gift certificate for free curly fries at Arby’s.

There’s a fallacy in thinking it’s “their money”. There seems to be this belief that somehow if rich people get rich they will invest and consume more and that’s good for the economy. That isn’t the case - rich people consume more than a single person - but they don’t consume more than if that money was equitably…

i disagree DMS,

I pretty much agree with what HamNo wants, but continue to disagree with his pitch of how to achieve it. Trying to make a moral argument, as we just saw in November, does not work!

I love the idea that if we tax billionaires we will lose their largesse. We would cut off the pearls that dribble from their lips down upon us mere mortals. Wither the art museums? Wither the ice rinks?

Ah yes, let’s shift the goalposts, in the name of “logic”. Let’s not discuss progressive taxation and billionaires, which is clearly the subject at hand, let’s instead thought experiment this into a situation where a meth addict is legally empowered to stroll into your house and make himself a cheese sandwich.

This from a man that steals foul balls from kids at spring training.

MILWAUKEE-Asked restaurant host: “God, did you hear about Peter King?”
Host: “No.”
Me: “Died. from righteous indignation.”
Thought he would cry

This is a cultural issue. Where young is from having multiple partners isn’t a big deal.

It’s not contradictory and it’s not a double tax. Money is taxed every time it changes hands. When you earn a paycheck, that money is taxed. Then, you use that money to buy something and that money is taxed. Then, that money is used to buy more product (and tax) or pay salary (and taxed).

“Double taxing” doesn’t make sense as a concept. You pay income tax (and a wide variety of other taxes) on your income, then you pay sales tax on that same money when you use it to buy things, then (if that thing is a house, or in some states, a car) you might have to pay property taxes on that thing. It’s not the…

The biggest issue with the inheritance tax is the passing down of private businesses, not cash.

The article describes them as “teenagers” but that covers a lot of ground. There’s a huge difference between a 14-year-old drawing a Swastika and an 17-year-old doing the same thing.

For the millionth fucking time, Adam Schefter was not and is not bound by HIPAA.