What would be the impact of spreading wealth equally to everybody?
Posted on November 21st, 2011 by admin
Group 1: (THE GROUP THAT NEEDS TO BE TAXED MORE)
All the affluent communities with Hollywood signs, limosuines, Rolls Royces on every block, Golf and Tennis resorts, 15 acre property, big backyard patio with barbecue smoker, all those spoiled rich kids playing with super soakers carefee and living the good life…
…bragging about the A+ they got on their biology test after hunkering down in the COZY house loft or their King Size bed to study and take breaks watching the Flat Screen Plasma TV
Group 2: (THE GROUP THAT NEEDS TO RECEIVE MORE INCOME REDISTRIBUTIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE)
Starving poor people, jobless, keeping it strong, begging on the streets for spare change so they can get something to eat ya feel me?
People who have been unemployed for years because they can’t get job because they been out of a job…. they aint seen no light of day…. they is starving…. beg…borrow…steal…..crime….the only money they can generate is drug money and rich man try to ban their skillsets so they aint can sell no drugs dude…….
So if we could redistribute wealth EXACTLY EQUALLY between these two groups, then everyone can share some of those flatscreen plasma TVs, we can redistribute some of the backyards of the rich people in affluent suburbia….. to starving poor street people homeless and broke…so they can share watching the flatscreen TVs….
We can take housing on Beverly Hills and force people to give up pieces of their property to starving poor people on welfare…. so that the resources are shared exactly the same.
And people at first will hate me over this, but… what we do is we have the Federal Government step in with guns and FORCE these social justice changes and otherwise you would be sentenced to jailtime, and jailtime will be used to show Rich people what it’s like to share the same living conditions as poor people…. so when they gets out of jail…. they will realize what they got at home needs to be redistributed to the poor so that outside of jail….. it won’t be like jail for poor people only
but good better than jail for everybody
How about I come to your house, and the houses of your family and take your money or land by the force of my guns?
I would just be redistributing your money to me and mine, would that be wrong?
November 21st, 2011 at 6:27 am
The impact is that it would create a straw man argument that right wingers could defend even though no liberal anywhere would ever call for that. The real argument, that things are too unequal and that working a full time job of 40+ hours per week SHOULD be able to pay for housing food and healthcare at a minimum, that argument kills them because it doesn’t fit into their cartoonish scenarios. Also deep down they know it’s right.
Right wingers know that there is something wrong with the extreme nature of income inequality in the US, they know that some redistribution on the fringes would probably balance things out without significant problems, but that argument is too hard for them.
SO they make up unrealistic questions like this one to keep things simple for their minds. FAIL.
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November 21st, 2011 at 7:14 am
Less innovation, less jobs, more lazy people, less wealth, less freedoms, bigger government, etc
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November 21st, 2011 at 7:56 am
Who gets to decide who gets what and who deserves what? This type of thinking only leads to tyranny and corruption at the highest levels of power.
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November 21st, 2011 at 8:13 am
The effect would be destruction of the American economy
The accumulation of wealth is the only real incentive for economic growth
Redistribution at the point of a gun is called Fascism
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November 21st, 2011 at 8:20 am
Your’e talking about the top 5% and the bottom 5%. What about all the people in the middle who actually worked for what they earned?
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November 21st, 2011 at 8:39 am
It’s called SOCIALISM and it DOES NOT WORK! To put it in simple terms, it’s called THEFT!
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Proven time and again in Europe that it doesn’t work
November 21st, 2011 at 9:01 am
more equality
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November 21st, 2011 at 9:18 am
how many ways can you split 5 dollars
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November 21st, 2011 at 9:48 am
Bums would get wealth for doing nothing.
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November 21st, 2011 at 10:35 am
Losers will always be losers.
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November 21st, 2011 at 11:21 am
Without reward that is appropriate to the efforts, USA will die. There would be no motivation to create, advance, grow, develop, etc. No one wants to carry someone not willing to put the same level of efforts in as those who do and can achieve meaningful results. Look at Greece – anything noteworthy happening there in the last 500 years?
Those who CAN’T work are another story, but in large it’s simple ….. work hard, big reward – play XBOX all week and smoke week, no reward.
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November 21st, 2011 at 11:46 am
Only the destruction of individual Liberty and the very idea that is America.
Those who say "equality" only prove that to them, it’s not about equal opportunity or equal chance, but equal "results"
You cannot achieve equal results without the destruction of liberty.
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November 21st, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Well it has been tried. Have you ever heard of the Soviet Union? It didn’t quite last 100 years. If you watch a documentary on the life of Maria Sharapova you can see the public housing units that just don’t quite measure up to the poorest of ours. Yep it sort of sounds like 50 square meters per family to me.
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November 21st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
How about I come to your house, and the houses of your family and take your money or land by the force of my guns?
I would just be redistributing your money to me and mine, would that be wrong?
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November 21st, 2011 at 12:47 pm
In a short while some would have a lot & some would have nothing. And we’d be right back where we started.
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November 21st, 2011 at 1:18 pm
In a free world new wealth would always be created. By forcibly taking from those to whom it belongs and spreading it among those to whom it does not belong would destroy the creation of new wealth.
Once all the wealth is spread and spent, there won’t be any more to come. As the "pie" begins to disappear, mass starvation would occur and violent crime would increase as those who squandered their booty would feel entitled to steal from those who didn’t, to spread the remaining wealth, in their opinion, "justly". Those who had judiciously cared for their share would certainly be accused of "hoarding".
In less than 2 generations, we would enter a period of mankind that would make the "Dark Ages" the good old days.
"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic."
"If every person has the right to defend — even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."
Frederic Bastiat
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November 21st, 2011 at 1:33 pm
And in 1 year, everything will be back to the way it was. Because, people who work hard and make their own money are survivors. They are rich for a reason. They will not be on the streets for long. And the people who take what they haven’t earned won’t know what to do. They will make bad choices and be right back on the street again.
Will you then require the earners again to be put under the tyranny of the welfare group?
Some people are poor because of their own choices. And some people are rich for the very same reason.
The downtrodden get nowhere if they are only given charity. They deserve the chance to be successful. There is nothing wrong with success if achieved in an honest way. What are you doing from your comfy spot to make this happen? I know what I am doing.
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