Greece's economy and government operates very, very differently from those of Scandinavian countries. You are comparing apples to oranges.

The poor in America bitch and moan because the rich here pay a very limited amount in taxes. Not only are there many (easy) ways for one to hide one's money in offshore accounts, America's tax rate on the rich is only 39%. Can you not see how a poor family earning $20,000 a year and paying %15 income tax is much, much more unfair when you compare a CEO bring in many millions a year and only paying 39% on the first $350,000?

here is my address Hemmingway - send me a check

Colorado Cancer Foundation
PO Box 7116
Boulder, CO 80306-7116
303-530-1541
[email protected]


Ok Ok not really my address but i still expect a check to be sent from your abundance


I rly don't need any of your better than thou handouts, i prefer to EARN it myself

All of this "I EARN MY MONEY I GOT A JOB SUCK IT POORS" bullshit is refuted by the charts I posted that obviously none of you have looked at. Wages are stagnant, taxes are disproportional, and the economy is in the fucking tank. Poor people are clearly at a disadvantage.

47% of Americans don't even pay income taxes......stfu

"poor people are at a disadvantage"

Captain Obvious to the rescue!

Government handouts don't get you better jobs though. Government handouts don't stop poor families from having large families. Government handouts help to keep people DEPENDANT on the system.

Let's switch topics and talk about a consumption tax.

i will say this too
this is dangerous to say
but they ran several iq tests on black and white subjects
regardless of social class and social upbringing, whites scored higher

But you can't convince me that someone is more likely to be smarter, solely bc they have white skin

i think it's gotta be due to other things

oddly enough there were a strand of blacks that did better than whites regardless of class/socio-economic status, when the test was administered at a certain time of day...but i forgot abt all the details of that...from my psychology and standardized testing course i took my junior year...i wish i still remembered all that crap

America's tax rate on the rich is only 39%. Can you not see how a poor family earning $20,000 a year and paying %15 income tax is much, much more unfair when you compare a CEO bring in many millions a year and only paying 39% on the first $350,000?


Yeah ONLY 40%. so how much should they be taxed 50% 60% 70% since u make the rule to be FAIR you tell me whats fair


That person making 20,000 is a 18-22 something out of high school that has not done anythig

That 350,000+ CEO is college educated and put in YEARS of work to get that pay. But lets make it "FAIR" bucause thats what its all about being FAIR" isnt it? We are all eqwual and regardless of our station in life, work work we put forth we should be piad the same fro mthe high school drop out to the 30+ year workalholic. gothca

man i really need spell check don't i ;)

Economist Bryan Caplan has criticised the way HDI scores are produced; each of the three components are bounded between zero and one. As a result of that, rich countries effectively cannot improve their ranking in certain categories, even though there is a lot of scope for economic growth and longevity left. "This effectively means that a country of immortals with infinite per-capita GDP would get a score of .666 (lower than South Africa and Tajikistan) if its population were illiterate and never went to school."[12] He argues, "Scandinavia comes out on top according to the HDI because the HDI is basically a measure of how Scandinavian your country is."[12]

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