Is mandated wealth redistribution immoral?

Navy, you don't hang out here often enough - every day Dick pulls out one of his passive aggressive gay jokes. The man is obviously struggling with his orientation. It might have been a little funny the first time. The 100th time? Hmmmm... not so much.

Indy, are you saying that cracking gay jokes is a sign of someone struggling with their orientation?

For instance ... a gay joke like this one?

http://www.selectsmart.com/DISCUSS/read.php?16,830747,831189#msg-831189


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Indy, how about this one?




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Two jokes from 2011? Wow. That's some deep research, Navy. No wonder you've been gone so long. Okay - honestly now... how frustrated were you looking thru all those posts where I happened to use the word "gay" in a non-humorous manner in-between 2011 and 2015? There must have been thousands of them. I can imagine you now...

"Effin Indy! He says 'gay' 3 or 4 times a week - BUT NEVER MAKES ANY JOKES ABOUT THEM!!!!"

Then you get lucky and eventually find a couple and you're like...

"FINALLY!!!!"

Hey Indy, how about this one

HHH: Bold prediction: it's either Obamacare or dick
> for the forseeable future. Prove me wrong.

INdy: Yes, but not all of us appreciate dick as much as you.



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Oh hey Indyyyyyy ... how about this one?

Ponderer: C, do you seriously imagine that all of the men you posted pictures of wearing women's clothes were gay? Seriously?

Indy: He's hoping...


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2012? Ahhh... so you're still wading thru that ocean of posts.

Indy? Oh Indyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Navy2711 Wrote:
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...I was drawing my own
> conclusion of, "Well, they just don't like getting
> hammered by Dick...


Indy: Spoken like someone who can appreciate getting hammered by dick. smoking smiley







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Welfare is wealth redistribution. I personally think that it does more harm than good. It pays and rewards bad work ethics and punishes success. It is not meant to but it does just that. The only real fare way to tax is a sales tax or a flat tax.

There is no industrialized country on the planet that uses a sales tax or flat tax as their national tax. Why? Because it's an incredibly regressive tax that hurts the middle class and poor far more than any other group. If you are in one of those two classes - and I'm betting you are - your taxes would go thru the roof. Why? Because there wouldn't be enough money to pay the bills unless that flat tax was something on the order of 20-25% (not the 9% nutjobs like Henry Cain would have you believe). It would also discourage home sales, car sales and sales in general. Why? Pretty obvious - because when you buy something you would be paying tax on it (probably 20-25%) - so people are going to buy less which does what? Hurts business and the economy. What the Steve Forbes and David Kocks of the world don't tell you on your Fox Flat Tax After School Special is they would be the only ones making out on a flat tax - everyone else's taxes would increase dramatically.

That - in a nutshell - is why nobody except the ultra rich (and those who have drank their kool-aid) want a national flat tax OR a national sales tax. There is NOTHING "fair" about it. Although you wrote "fare" which is - ironically - a good way to put it. Your "fare" would increase exponentially under one or both of those systems.

Oh - and btw - a sales tax or flat tax would also be "wealth distribution" because the rich would be paying less of their fair share. We would be redistributing more wealth upwards - exactly what we've been doing the last 30-40 years. That's what got us here in the first place. That's why every industrialized country on the planet has a progressive tax system - because that is the ONLY fair way to tax.

Indy,
I agree with all you said above. Except it's Herman Cain.

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"White power! White power!" --Demented Racist Donald Trump

Close enough for government work.

"Welfare is wealth redistribution. I personally think that it does more harm than good. It pays and rewards bad work ethics and punishes success." -latch

Flaming bullshit.

Why do you call it flaming bullshit Ponderer? You need to be more specific. It does reward the wrong things and punishes the wrong things. I know that that is not the intent but it does. I lived in an inner city projects during the early 70's. I have seen the effects personally. That is why I think it does more harm than good. It is so abused that it needs to be thrown out.