Name The Entitlement You Would Like To Eliminate...

[jberryhill]

I'll give you two, for starters:

That living in the right neighborhood entitles you to decent public schools.

That being male entitles you to higher pay.

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. That the CEO of General Dynamics is entitled to the salary of the size he gets....

particularly since it is almost 100% taxpayer money.

[BillyJack]

2. Tax cuts for the wealthy. A HUGE ENTITLEMENT that is unnecessary & UNSUSTAINABLE eom

[pacalo]

3. The U.S.'s entitlement to play the world's policeman.

Legislators' lifetime benefits, including pension & healthcare. Healthcare insurance should be terminated when legislators leave congress, just as it does when we are no longer employed.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Those are not entitlements. Those are unearned perogatives.

don't use Repbublican definitions.

Entitlements are GOOD - that are what we DESERVE because of our investment in the system. I go to work - I'm entitled to a paycheck. I make SS contributions - I'm entitled to collect SS benefits.

See how that works?

[dkf]

5. I would like to eliminate the sense of entitlement some Americans seem to have

That they are entitled to a much higher standard of living than the vast majority of people on this planet.

It's obscene what we consume compared to everyone else.

[Cid_B]

9. By all means...

Feel free to go live in a hut with no electricity, plumbing or medicine...

Follow your thought through to its logical conclusion. What do you want Americans to do? Give away everything to the other 7.whatever billion people on the planet until we are all "equal?" If not what would you prefer?

[pnwmom]

6. The mirrors

in the Congressional gym.

Also, free Congressional cell phones with photo and texting capability.

[21st Century FDR]

7. CORPORATE welfare

Especially any that goes to the "defense" industry, energy companies, or those fucking Monsanto bastards who are trying to poison the entire planet.

[Chan790]

13. you forgot banks and Wall St.

Even before TARP and the great financial fleecing of America, banks have been some of the largest beneficiaries of corporate welfare on a daily basis.

[Major Hogwash]

8. Being elected as a Republican Senator and denying gays their equal rights for 25 years in Congress

And then when you're caught tapping toes in a restroom in an airport with an undercover cop you can make the statement "I'm not gay. I've never been gay."

And expect ANYONE to believe ANYTHING you ever say again!!

[ejpoeta]

11. i thought mcgreevy was the one who said he wasn't gay and had never been gay.

[Major Hogwash]

16. No, it was Craig, Larry Craig, of Payette Idaho.

Where his mother still lives.

Man, that must have been a stellar day in her life!!

[ejpoeta]

18. well, they go and do something like get caught soliciting in an airport bathroom

and their concern isn't that they were caught soliciting... or even that they tried to use 'do you know who i am' to intimidate a police officer...it's i am not gay. yep. class all the way.

[gateley]

24. With all due respect to Mrs. Craig, but boy, she must be the

oldest woman alive! Isn't Craig pretty ancient?

[Major Hogwash]

34. Craig is only 66 years old, so I think she is about 90 nowadays.

Oddly, the older Larry gets, the more he looks like her.

[gateley]

36. Well HE looks about 90! :-) nt

[bob4460]

10. I would like to eliminate calling the Entitlements of SS and medicare Entitlements

They are NOT!!! WE THE PEOPLE have paid in to these systems for about 70 years.

[sarge43]

12. Thank you. If they want to eliminate SS and Medicare, fine.

However, I want the money I paid into both for four decades returned. Otherwise, I believe that's called theft.

[Major Hogwash]

35. There's a good description of it here at this link to a previous DU discussion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=760054&mesg_id=765123

I believe Tahitinut nailed it down quite well why they refer to it as an entitlement to begin with.

[get the red out]

14. Farm subsidies

For gigantic factory farms that produce corn for nothing but junk food.

[theHandpuppet]

32. I second that one!

:thumbsup:

[Liberal In Texas]

15. The entltlement of politicians to raise vast sums of money.

Right now we have government by bribery.

[BillStein]

17. The newly found entitlement

of corporations to pour vast sums of money into election ads.

[rug]

19. I don't like those express passes at amusement parks.

Elitist bastards.

[deutsey]

20. I'd like to do away with all entitlements for poor and working people

so that we can all become serfs again, ruled by our aristocratic and royal superiors.

Life seemed much simpler back then.



:sarcasm:

[closeupready]

21. Mortgage Interest Deduction, which is the largest domestic federal expense

after interest on the debt.

[PassingFair]

22. Un-taxed Inheritance and "gifts"...

Fucking windfalls for the winners of the Genetic Sweepstakes.
As if they don't grow up with enough "entitlements".

[theaocp]

23. the Empire entitlement n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Everyone should be entitled to decent public schools

It's a stupid way to phrase a problem in poor areas, if you say "those in the 'right area' should put up with crappy schools".

[Fearless]

26. First one is EASY but the rich won't let it happen...

Fund public schools based on a state wide pool of money and not local property tax. There have been movements in many more liberal states (VT and MA are the ones I know of), but the wealthy always prevent it from happening.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Church tax exemptions.

[Johonny]

30. +1

[Taverner]

28. Lumber Mills getting carte blanche with USFS land

They barely have to pay any money, they can cut down as many trees as they want, and then profit from said lumber, leaving our forests bare and clear cut

[sabrina 1]

29. Subsidies to Oil Corps.

Just one of many that make no sense.

Amazing to even think of cutting the already tiny and most likely in so many cases, critical to survival, amount of money EARNED by retirees, while refusing to take a dime from the most wealthy people on the planet.

This country is in deep trouble when something so irrational and inhumane could be tolerated at all.

[taught_me_patience]

31. A hedge fund manager is entitled to a 15% tax rate because their income

is counted as "dividend".

[indepat]

33. That the uber-wealthy and large corporations are entitled to continue to suck fervently at the

public welfare teat. :patriot: