We didn't pay taxes during the period I mentioned, prior to 1917 there was no such thing.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > A great many of them inherited it from someone else, many of them also > inherited it from someone else. Any new wealth was done with the help of > rads paid for by our tax dollars, were educated in schools paid with our > tax > dollars...so no, they didn't doing completely independent of any other > help. > Not even the fathers or grandfathers or whatever of the people that > inherited it. They benefited from a system that allowed them to get rich > and made use of resources that they did not personally pay for. > > ------------------------------------ > Three Ravens Consulting > Eric Roberts > Owner/Developer > [email protected] > tel: 630-486-5255 > fax: 630-310-8531 > http://www.threeravensconsulting.com > ------------------------------------ > > -----Original Message----- > From: LRS Scout [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:27 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: anyone watch last night's debate? > > > I disagree. > > A great many of the wealthy in this country come from family wealth built > before all of these things were prevalent. A great many wealthy got that > way through ideas they had themselves, and would have had without any of > those things. People have found and worked mines and all sorts of things. > > Also, we didn't pay for a lot of those things until 1917, before that the > government was small enough to be self sufficient. The social contract > didn't require that we extort our population. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The original source of "you didn't build that". What, if any, of this > > do you disagree with? > > > > "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. *Nobody*. > > You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. > > You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. > > You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in > > your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us > paid for.... > > You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great > idea? > > God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social > > contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward to the next kid > > who comes along." Elizabeth Warren > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You didn't build that > > > > ************ > > > > It was a very true statement. None of the businesses were built > > > > on a deserted island. > > > > ************** > > > Yeah, Obama personally went to each and every business and helped > > > them build it. No, not really. Small businesses were started by hard > > > working people. Sure some had to borrow the money, but so what? The > > > people who built the business built it with their ideas, their > > > business plan and so > > on. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
