-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:
[quote="edge540"WTF...?..."freedom"?...that's your big idea? "freedom"?....Wow[/b]
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Dear Stupid,
I can see how that is a foreign concept to a leach like you.
Freedom to work hard.
Freedom to work for yourself without being regulated and taxed out of business.
Freedom to get ahead on your own.
Freedom to keep and decide how what you earned is spent, rather than having it taken from you by the government to be "spread around to the leeches who refuse to work for themselves...like you and the rest of the 47%.
Freedom to go from being one of the 47% to being part of the 1%.
That's nice...and it's all bullshit, dumbfuk.
Freedom my ass.
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Incomes for 90% of Americans have been stuck in neutral, and it's not just because of the Great Recession. Middle-class incomes have been stagnant for at least a generation, while the wealthiest tier has surged ahead at lighting speed.
In 1988, the income of an average American taxpayer was $33,400, adjusted for inflation. Fast forward 20 years, and not much had changed: The average income was still just $33,000 in 2008, according to IRS data.
Meanwhile, the richest 1% of Americans -- those making $380,000 or more -- have seen their incomes grow 33% over the last 20 years, leaving average Americans in the dust. (How the rich became the über rich)