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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWonkette: Poor Persecuted Bazillionaire Tom Perkins Proves Critics Wrong: He *Can* Be A Bigger Dick
http://wonkette.com/541960/poor-persecuted-bazillionaire-tom-perkins-proves-critics-wrong-he-can-be-a-bigger-dick(CAUTION: NSFW image at link)
So you all remember Tom Perkins, right? He is the bazillionaire who is afraid that all the little people will go full-Nazi and holocaust all the rich people, because it was his turn to make the just like Hitler reference of the day. While he has since said that maybe, perhaps, the holocaust analogy went just a smidge over the line, he still feels that the rich are constantly getting dicked over by all the little people. In order to hammer home the point, he decided to go full-47%, a la Mitt Romney, and take aim at the takers:
Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes.
Clearly, Perkins is unimpressed with the current GOP efforts to block poor people from voting. Lets explore the merits of One Dollar, One Vote, shall we?
Perkins gave the remarks in the conservative bastion of San Francisco. Heres what he actually said:
The Tom Perkins system is: You dont get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes, Perkins said.
But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. Hows that?
Thats fucking ridiculous, is how that is.
More excellent commentary at link.
Warpy
(111,120 posts)What he needs to fear is that the rest of us will go all French Revolution on his pasty, privileged ass. The only way his predatory class can stop this is by paying their fair taxes, raising our wages, and giving up the imperial, world wide military machine that makes them feel safe.
And it's not going to happen.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but the picture of the monstrous dildo on top of that car might get someone in trouble at work. May want to add a NSFW tag.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)but some people have more conservative work places than others LOL!
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Thanks for the reminder!
tsuki
(11,994 posts)underwater. A nice long flight seems in order.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The Tom Perkins system is: You dont get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes, Perkins said.
But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. Hows that?
Gee, I guess that means the Saudis and Chinese can pay someone to vote for them.. not like citizens united disallows that.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)NickB79
(19,219 posts)"All Dollars Are Created Equal."
Surely, that's what the Founding Fathers MEANT to say.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)And he'd like to see a "democracy" where the rich can still prevail against the increasingly numerous and impoverished rest of us.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)1776 would have been ideal. Yes, only white, male, land owners were allowed to vote in the early republic.