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In reply to the discussion: Is it time to take from the rich to give to the poor? [View all]whathehell
(29,102 posts)35. Lol..Bill Clinton didn't originate that
Last edited Sun Mar 10, 2024, 09:50 PM - Edit history (1)
You're off by several decades..It was Charlie Chaplin, and since few of us are afforded, by talent or inheritance, the opportunity to be "rich", I don't see its relevance to this discussion, especially since Chaplin was speaking in binary terms, leaving out the Middle Class.
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If you think $2 per day is suitable in the US, dream on. But yeah, second graph doesn't quite make the point
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 10
#17
Yes, corporate welfare is a thing, and billionaires benefit unequally from infrastructure
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 10
#21
Sorry, but the tax system already redistrubutes wealth and already is socialist
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 10
#19
What is socialism? I have heard sex before marriage, statehood for Puerto Rico and DC, and caring about people more than
ck4829
Mar 10
#23
The trouble with the notion is when the takers are done taking, they end up being keepers, and pretty much always
DFW
Mar 9
#13