"The rich people apparently are leaving America"

[OmahaBlueDog]

From: Mandatory Drug Testing for Corporate Welfare (on Facebook)

[Warpy]

1. Among the OWS people, one brave Socialist and a few brave Democrats

we're turning the decades long demonization of the poor and working classes on its head and refocusing it on the ultra rich.

I love it. It's about bloody time.

ETA: it would be nice to know where they're all going. Most places have far higher taxes than the US does. Of course, people get more for them than a bloated military.

[PassingFair]

12. In that case, we should make it difficult for them to take money out of the country.

Most jobs do NOT come from "rich" Americans, by the way.

Do you have any back up for your 90+% number?

[Grassy Knoll]

18. Knoll has left the building..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=287602

[PassingFair]

19. No relation, of course!

Right?

[midnight]

2. I love that suggestion of "Mandatory Drug Testing for Corporate Welfare"...

[YOHABLO]

3. These Rich People Love No Country ...

They love money more than anything else.

[aquart]

4. Tell them to leave their passports at the door.

[Jeff Murdoch]

9. and their stuff

an exit tax, so to speak

[caraher]

17. Enjoy your stay

BTW, it's best to expunge grammar errors when you're questioning someone else's intelligence. Other people might mistake you for a moran.

[Politicalboi]

5. I say good riddance

They should have to sign paperwork that if they leave, and if they come back they will be required to pay the taxes they owe before being allowed back.

Some will find paradise, but others will go through hell, always having to worry about your possessions, and possibly your life. I say Go For It.

[SunSeeker]

6. They will deeply regret it.

First, you make the excellent point that most of these tax haven countries are far from safe places to live for ex-pats...especially if they have kids. Hell, even their pets can get kidnapped. And if you give up your U.S. citizenship to avoid taxes, it is really hard to get a visa to come back into the U.S., even for a visit. And if you do come back, you have to pay taxes at the highest rate, i.e. over 30%, on all the income you avoided taxes on, whether it was earned income or capital gains.

[knoll]

15. They already pay 90% of all taxes.

[Kalidurga]

7. I will help them pack...

good riddance good bye. Let someone that really cares about their neighbors start some companies that won't outsource and pollute everything that they don't outsource.

[knoll]

16. Let poor people start companies then?

I have never met a poor person who was given the loans to start a big corporation that will employ hundreds. What have you been smoking?

[Ikonoklast]

20. I know I'm talking to a corpse, but I know a guy that did just that.

Didn't have two nickels to rub together, but had an idea, got a backer, and now has a multimillion dollar business.

He's a good Democrat, too.



The wealthy in this country are parasites now. They DO NOT CREATE ANYTHING.

They TAKE FROM EVERYONE.


But, enjoy your delusions that the wealthy love you.

You are stuff on their shoe to them.

[PAMod]

23. To paraphrase William Jennings Bryan...

...from his "Cross of Gold" speech:

If you take away "the job creators" and leave labor, new capital and new enterprise would spring up again as if by magic; take away labor and leave "the job creators" and grass will grow in every workplace and marketplace in America.

[CrispyQ]

8. I wish a whole lot more would leave. -nt

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Farewell, parasites. nt

[Brigid]

21. Good riddance. And as my dad used to say,

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.