Ben Stein: Poor people are jealous, lazy drunks who don’t appreciate indoor plumbing

[Danno 1,228]

Maybe the government should force corporations to hire more people and pay them higher wages?

Or we could make them just pay people... their work not necessary.

(Oh thats right, we already do that with the tax code)

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Or we could make them just pay people... their work not necessary.

(Oh thats right, we already do that with the tax code)

Yes, by taxing non-earned income lower than earned income. That's a travesty indeed.

[Danno 1,228]

Yes, by taxing non-earned income lower than earned income. That's a travesty indeed.

Ahh you do understand poor people (if they work at all) get lots of money FROM the IRS every year... they make money when they do their taxes.

Are you saying Businesses get an even bigger check FROM the Govt?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Ahh you do understand poor people (if they work at all) get lots of money FROM the IRS every year... they make money when they do their taxes.

Are you saying Businesses get an even bigger check FROM the Govt?

Some businesses certainly get bigger checks from the government. And all that subsidized low cost labor that you bemoan so much pads the bottom lines of companies small and large all across America. It helps pay for the very dividends that people like me then have taxed at very favorable rates vs. our earned income. Any way you slice it, the money stream only works in one direction - from the bottom to the top. That's why you see wealth and incomes concentrate ever more. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors. Don't fall for it. Oh wait, you already have.

[Danno 1,228]

Some businesses certainly get bigger checks from the government. And all that subsidized low cost labor that you bemoan so much pads the bottom lines of companies small and large all across America. It helps pay for the very dividends that people like me then have taxed at very favorable rates vs. our earned income. Any way you slice it, the money stream only works in one direction - from the bottom to the top. That's why you see wealth and incomes concentrate ever more. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors. Don't fall for it. Oh wait, you already have.

See this is why we are into a second term of your guy Obama and we are in the economic struggle we are in.

I want you to keep one thing in mind as we continue to decline ..... it didn't have to be this way.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

See this is why we are into a second term of your guy Obama and we are in the economic struggle we are in.

I want you to keep one thing in mind as we continue to decline ..... it didn't have to be this way.

Yeah, that bold part. Spot on, Danno. It would certainly have been much worse had we chosen to let those that you support run the show. There's no doubt about that.

[Danno 1,228]

Just don't forget it....

-I want you to keep one thing in mind as we continue to decline ..... it didn't have to be this way._