Professor fails entire class to illustrate Obama's Socialist policies

[ill]

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/107...ass-illustrate-obamas-socialism-left-furious/

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

 

[ill]

This was the top comment on the article and its a good read. It should open your eyes to how you address and attack the problem

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this…

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing
The fifth would pay $1
The sixth would pay $3
The seventh would pay $7
The eighth would pay $12
The ninth would pay $18
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59
So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball.

“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20″. Drinks for the ten men would now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men ? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

The bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% saving).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% saving).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% saving).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% saving).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.

“I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,”but he got $10!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!” “That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

 

[Serious]

interesting..

 

[Type Username Here]

Seems like one of those "FWD:FWD:FWD" CAC Tea Party Patriot email chainmail stories.

Obama is not a Socialist. Not even close. He has injected more Reaganomics than anyone since Reagan. His administration even accomplished what Bush Jr failed to do.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Good read. France is learning this lesson right now.

 

[Type Username Here]

This was the top comment on the article and its a good read. It should open your eyes to how you address and attack the problem

 

[No1]

That is a horrible example. I don't even know where to start with how wrong that is.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

What a fukking idiot.

 

[Poppa_Dock]

This was the top comment on the article and its a good read. It should open your eyes to how you address and attack the problem

That's pretty unrealistic though. This is written from the perspective of a rich person who thinks everybody who isn't wealthy is out to take his money. Immediately after they leave the bar the less fortunate people begin to complain, after paying less, and getting a discount. Then they end up beating up the rich person, so the rich person is the victim in the end, as if that is reality.

 

[Type Username Here]

This is honestly one of the worst threads I have seen on here.

Using Tea Party chain mail stories.

 

[PewPew]

What a garbage thread.. You tea party fakkits are so unrealistic with your hair-brain schemes and views, remind me of Pinky and the brain

 

[88m3]

disgusted all around

 

[Type Username Here]

@Ill Post another chain mail.

What about the one about the Navy Seal punching the Professor? Or the one about the guy giving his tip to the poor person instead of the waitress?

 

[Serious]

wait so did this really happen or not?

 

[No_bammer_weed]

I could write some long drawn out post about how insane this is, but I think Id rather reprint a quote that sums up this backwards psychology to a tee. This is a quote from George McGovern after his loss to Richard Nixon in '72. He accurately forecasted how the right was going to use racial politics, in order to extract the wealth from the working class vertically. His only error is that he limited the aftereffects of the southern strategy analytic to the south:

Defeated by the Southern strategy, McGovern neatly summed it up: “What is the Southern Strategy? It is this. It says to the South: Let the poor stay poor, let your economy trail the nation, forget about decent homes and medical care for all your people, choose officials who will oppose every effort to benefit the many at the expense of the few—and in return, we will try to overlook the rights of the black man, appoint a few southerners to high office, and lift your spirits by attacking the ‘eastern establishment’ whose bank accounts we are filling with your labor and your industry.