This reminds me that Jeremy Staat said, "It didn't seem right that we pay all those entertainers millions to catch a football and we pay our Marines pennies to a dollar to catch a bullet," That quote drilled into my mind forever. URL: Former NFL Lineman Joins Marines « U.S. Marines – United States Marine Corps URL: Jeremy Staat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was a professional football player, but quit to enlisted into the United States Marine Corps.
Props for a nice presentation, good use of info graphics, but I dislike the agenda. The truth is, Kobe Bryant is spending that money...he's eating at restaurants, he's having his bathroom tiled, he's buying cars and food. That money is being sent INTO the economy. It's being pushed, not depleted.
So what? Good for Kobe. Do something other people find valuable, and you get rewarded for it. That's the way it should be.
I didn't hear "class warfare." I heard a narrator making factual statements. They were "assertions," not "assessments." (In other words, the video "asserts" that certain facts are true, but it doesn't make value judgments ("assessments") about it. Sounds like someone might be reading one's own biases and values into it. But here's one: we don't have a wealth problem. I'm cool with the wealthy. But they're paying less in taxes than ever before in our history, and this is killing our economy. Another culprit is unchecked capitalism. Corporations are avoiding taxes and retaining cash in unprecedented ways. If they (individuals and corporations) won't invest it, we should tax it and get that wealth moving through the economy. We should get taxes up to sustainable levels, which will actually help the economy get going. But if they want to invest in people and their businesses, fine. That money doesn't get taxed because it is treated as an expense. Can marginal tax rates go up? Certainly. Lower marginal rates are killing out economy and government. But could they go too high? Sure. The 91% rate under Eisenhower (and similar rates in the UK) encouraged people to use tax havens. If you make more, you should pay more. Period. And please, just because some people point out the fact that we don't all enjoy the same advantages doesn't make it "class warfare." Some people were born on third base and think they hit a triple.
No kidding. What should I do, read your opinion into it? I'm not that verbose. And that is a compliment.
I don't know who originally said it. I heard it first about Mitt Romney. I think it was Switzer first.
It looks like it might have been Ann Richards on the elder George Bush. A totally reliable anonymous post at Democratic Underground explains that she also said Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth, for which Bush "gifted Ann with a silver pin of a foot, which she wears proudly."
