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SavageOrangeJug

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As of January 20, when President Obama is officially sworn into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:

1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales and bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a “fair shake.”

2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are “too busy for overtime” to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can participate in working extra hours.

3. All top management will now be referred to as “the government.” We will not participate in this “pooling” experience because the law doesn’t apply to us.

4. The “government” will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging it’s workers to continue to work hard “for the good of all.”

5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it’s “good to spread the wealth.” Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more “patriotic.”

6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. You don’t need to feel badly because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he’ll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can’t pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flatscreen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn’t all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?)

7. All guns will be collected on Fridays in March. Vacation days will not be allowed for deer hunting since the season has now been canceled,however, you may use vacation days to protest the horrific conditions that endanger our beloved Caribou. Or to feed a duck.

8. Beginning in January, we will be taking up donations for various disenfranchised groups: Mondays will be a collection for auto workers; Tuesdays, bank workers; Wednesdays, collections for California; Thursdays, people who’ve overspent their Visa Cards; and Fridays, Nancy Pelosi’s private plane rides.

If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you have one recourse: Think before you vote next time.
 
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9. Whenever any employee disagrees with any other employee they must flagrantly misrepresent their opponent's position and use straw men in a laughable attempt at reductio ad absurdum.
 
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9. Whenever any employee disagrees with any other employee they must flagrantly misrepresent their opponent's position and use straw men in a laughable attempt at reductio ad absurdum.
Explain the true meaning of "spread the wealth".

Have fun, and thanks for playing.
 
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Explain the true meaning of "spread the wealth".

Have fun, and thanks for playing.

Spread the wealth means that Warren Buffet doesn't get to pay only 19% of his income in taxes while students have to graduate in huge debt from student loans. It also can be used as a buzzword in order to paint socialism as a black-and-white issue, either you're in the USSR or free market. In the latter use, it's a amusingly ignorant understanding of the nature of modern economies and a laughable attempt to use an old boogeyman to scare people into endorsing lasseiz-faire capitalism, which behind Communism has the worst track record in all of economic history.
 
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Spread the wealth means that Warren Buffet doesn't get to pay only 19% of his income in taxes while students have to graduate in huge debt from student loans. quote]

Did you make a point there? I can't seem to find it.

Oh, sorry, I'll make it more obvious.

Spread the wealth means that Warren Buffet doesn't get to pay only 19% of his income in taxes while students have to graduate in huge debt from student loans

There we go.
 
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I went to college and got out without accruing any debt. Amazing how that works when you make a school choice that's within your means. But people living within their means is lost on the redistribution crew

What would him paying too much in taxes have to do with their being in debt?

nothing except that he should feel guilty for having all that money
 
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Spread the wealth means that Warren Buffet doesn't get to pay only 19% of his income in taxes while students have to graduate in huge debt from student loans. It also can be used as a buzzword in order to paint socialism as a black-and-white issue, either you're in the USSR or free market. In the latter use, it's a amusingly ignorant understanding of the nature of modern economies and a laughable attempt to use an old boogeyman to scare people into endorsing lasseiz-faire capitalism, which behind Communism has the worst track record in all of economic history.
Name a better economic system than capitalism.

We live pretty damn good in this nation.
 
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I went to college and got out without accruing any debt. Amazing how that works when you make a school choice that's within your means. But people living within their means is lost on the redistribution crew



nothing except that he should feel guilty for having all that money

Yeah, damn those evil rich folks.
 
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It means that there is something seriously wrong with any government that taxes the middle at higher rates than the rich, while the people who need medical care die because they can't afford it. It means that there is something very morally questionable about the richest country in the world having a lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality rate than the rest of the civilized world.
 
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I went to college and got out without accruing any debt. Amazing how that works when you make a school choice that's within your means. But people living within their means is lost on the redistribution crew

You are quite fortunate

nothing except that he should feel guilty for having all that money

No one ever said that.
 
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Name a better economic system than capitalism.

We live pretty damn good in this nation.

I said lasseiz-faire capitalism; the dominant form of economic system prior to the Great Depression.

We live pretty damn good in a mixed economy, and the nations of western Europe have an even higher standard of living due to the evil socialist policies of their governments.
 
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Scholarships aren't that hard to earn. I earned one and I was probably the laziest high schooler in history. Additionally, the military will pay for your college.
 
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You are quite fortunate


In terms of him getting a college degree in the US without having to rack up large debt, he is quite unremarkable.

Also, the value of the degree surpasses the value of the debt. Otherwise, people wouldn't do it. So your point is????
 
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We live pretty damn good in a mixed economy, and the nations of western Europe have an even higher standard of living due to the evil socialist policies of their governments.

Getting two pap smears in a lifetime and then dying of undetected and easily treatable cervical cancer is awesome.
 
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Oh, sorry, I'll make it more obvious.

Spread the wealth means that Warren Buffet doesn't get to pay only 19% of his income in taxes while students have to graduate in huge debt from student loans

There we go.


So, how much is Warren Buffet's fair share. How much of thhe income that he earns should be his to spend?

Or, for that matter, how much of my (woefully insignificant) income should I get to spend?
 
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I said lasseiz-faire capitalism; the dominant form of economic system prior to the Great Depression.

We live pretty damn good in a mixed economy, and the nations of western Europe have an even higher standard of living due to the evil socialist policies of their governments.
Like hell they do.
 
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Honestly, the government doesn't deserve 1 out of every 5 dollars I earn and that's true for Mr. Buffet, as well.
 
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In terms of him getting a college degree in the US without having to rack up large debt, he is quite unremarkable.

Also, the value of the degree surpasses the value of the debt. Otherwise, people wouldn't do it. So your point is????

 

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