Holy shit where was I for all of this.
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
Explain to me why this is a bad thing. I'm not being facetious. Why should I, a poor college kid, care if millionaires are going to be taxed more? Especially when I stand to be the one to benefit from it.
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The answer:
Because you won't actually benefit from it! People come to America, invest in America, work hard in America, and attend Ivy League schools in America because America is the place where you could succeed. Where success was rewarded and accepted as a positive thing. Where it was acknowledged that when you create value and in turn make a profit, everyone around you and everyone in society benefits. In these troubled times, we can easily forget about incentives. Good God incentives! They are real! Everybody does something for a reason. And if you tax all the millionares, there will be less people becoming millionares. And they are the ones supporting the rest of society as it is. It feels good to tax them and give to the poor. But to borrow from an old joke, socialism is like masturbation - it feels good until you realize that you are just fucking yourself. I detest people like Obama, because they use labels such as "greed" to justify their actions, when in fact they are the greedy. They want everything for free.