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Money in the wrong hands.
- Thread starter GromsDad
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x10000 nice attempt to deflect though.
Do you think the evul Democrats are going to go into everyone’s bank accounts all of a sudden? Do you know what exactly he plans on doing?
Odd, seems like every poor person I see is grossly overweight and has a newer iPhone than I do. Where are they getting the money for this?mundus said:
You and your ilk bring this joke (supposedly) from the old Soviet Union to mind:manbearpig said:
A Soviet official is proudly showing an impressive Moscow subway station to an American engineer. The visitor is so enchanted that he lingers for quite a time — during which no trains pass through. When he asks, “But where are the trains?” the Russian indignantly replies, “What about the Negroes in the South?”
My mom is German and has a big swastika on her birth certificate.....she was born into socialism but somehow in adulthood wound up rejecting it.manbearpig said:
"It’s indisputable that New York City has enormous income inequality; the top 1 percent of New Yorkers earned 40.5 percent of all the city’s income in 2014. However, that same group paid 47 percent of all the local income taxes, while one-third of the city’s filers—mostly poor residents—paid no tax. The same dynamic occurs at the state and federal levels. Those who earn the most pay disproportionately more in taxes, largely to fund wealth-transfer programs that move money down the economic ladder to the needy."mundus said:
"Despite his self-described “socialistic impulse,” de Blasio has been willing to take maximum donations from real estate magnates such as Joseph Chetrit, Douglas Durst, and Yeheskel Elias, even as he remains a constant critic of the city’s real estate industry. He interrupted his speech to sign an executive order authorizing the creation of a city office that would seize the property of “bad landlords.” Previously, he has expressed his “druthers” to let the city “determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That’s a world I’d love to see.”
Scrap-metal queen Wendy Neu is a major de Blasio donor, as is deli-meat king Frank Brunckhorst of Boar’s Head Provisions. The financial industry, which de Blasio sees as society’s primary engine of inequality, has nonetheless funneled money to his campaigns. Hedge-fund mega-billionaire James Simons and his wife each “maxed out” in giving to the mayor’s reelection campaign, as did Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O’Donnell, Herb Alpert, Facebook investor Sean Parker and his wife Alexandra, four members of the Chicago Pritzker family, restaurateur Drew Nieporent, and a long list of the “millionaires and billionaires” that de Blasio complains about as the cause of “anger in this country.”
Now flirting with a run for president, de Blasio is spouting redistributionist rhetoric at odds with not only fiscal reality but also his own fundraising practices. Maybe money is “in the wrong hands” when those hands aren’t handing him campaign donations."
https://www.city-journal.org/de-blasio-new-york-wealth