On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 7:10 PM <[email protected]> wrote: *> The extremely rich, who bribe the pols, JC, * >
It's immoral but "bribery" is the wrong word to use because that implies it's illegal, and what the very very rich are doing is perfectly legal; the ones who are receding the "bribes" are the same ones who make the laws, so they made sure that such activities are perfectly legal. And Republican presidents and Republican senators made sure that they appointed Republican judges to the Supreme Court who would say such activity was perfectly constitutional too, that's how we got the Citizens United 5-4 decision that said the Federal Election Commission could not restrict the amount of money corporations give to politicians, money that is given the euphemistic name "campaign contributions''. Republican judges nominated and confirmed by Republican presidents and Republican senators even went so far as to say in effect that corporations are people. Democrats tried to stop the Republicans from doing this at every turn but they lost, and in nearly every post you go on and on about how evils in what you call "bribery" , and yet when you go into the voting booth if one candidate has a R next to his name and another candidate has a D you don't even bother to think, you vote for Mr. R. That does not compute. > > see higher taxes as merely, The Cost of Doing Business. > I'm not talking about the "extremely rich" I'm talking about the super ultra mega rich, there is a difference. Lots of people are extremely rich but the wealthiest 0.01%, of the human beings who live on planet Earth, just 520,000 people, own 11% of the world's wealth, and the 2,668 billionaires who exist on the planet own 3%. If you're talking about just the USA the top 0.1% richest Americans have as much wealth as the bottom 90%. And the gap between the rich and the poor is not just growing, it's accelerating. As recently as 2009 the world's richest man only had a paltry $40 billion, but by 2020 the world's richest man was worth 113 billion, in 2021 in spite of a worldwide pandemic it had grown to 177 billion, and today it's 219 billion. Well before 2030 I expect we will see the world's first trillionaire. *> Higher taxes don't make anything more virtuous.* > True, but they do make them less powerful. And you keep talking about all the grand renewable energy projects you think should be immediately started, but where is all the money to do that going to come from? I say take it from the super ultra mega rich. It's true that if we did that due to their impoverishment the super ultra mega rich may only be able to afford a 400 foot yacht and not the 600 foot model they had their heart set on and that would be a tragedy, but in every life some rain must fall. *> My take on this is, globalism=bad,* My take is that consumers should be allowed, if that is what they want, to buy gadgets from whoever can make them most efficiently and thus is able to sell them the cheapest. Doing that not only helps consumers but the free competition encourages everybody to find better ways to make things. That's why Biden should have eliminated ALL of Trump's economically ridiculous tariffs on the first day he became president. *> On Bush Junior, I have heard and maybe this is simply disinformation, > that 43 enabled Bin Laden to escape to Iran (wink wink) and deliberately > looked the other way to please his families Saudi friends.* > Don't be ridiculous! *> On abortion, I believe based on research biologists using sheep, that > we are at the point where fetal transfer into incubation boxes,* > If you want to do that the next time you become pregnant then fine, you should be allowed to transfer your fetus to a "incubation box" if that makes you happy, but don't force other people to do the same thing if they have a different opinion about "incubation boxs" than you do. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 371 q -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0YLe4uHET_QFEp3USGPyMwjqyNgajhYxyzFXhxn6NZZw%40mail.gmail.com.
