I love this TOON:

[n2doc]

Only thing I would add is a reference to Madoff, or Pyramid schemes, and maybe Halliburton....

[liberal N proud]

1. Good one

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. Nice. nt

[TahitiNut]

3. Not to mention the nonsense that a 'tax' is a 'penalty.'

Sheer nonsense.

[HughBeaumont]

4. It's called the price ALL of us pay to live in the society we do.

And that goes a Googol-fold for the so-called "Self Made Millionaires".

[TahitiNut]

5. When I have salad at dinner with a friend who has steak and wine ...

... I'm not inclined to "split the check." But that's what the wealthy always want ... to pig out and split the check with the dieters.

[devilgrrl]

8. What a great way of putting it!

:thumbsup:

[rrneck]

6. I've heard

the argument from working middle class Republicans that the free market gives everybody a chance at wealth and the rich deserve their wealth because they earned it. My response is always, "so what's your problem?" They always want to be as rich as the rich folks, they are always working their asses off to do it, and they don't have a chance in hell of actually making that happen.

[n2doc]

7. The answer is to look at what happened

the "free market" leads to corruption and theft as those with money use it to steal more from those with less power. The "free market" leads CEO's to ransack their corporations for big payouts while departing just before it all comes crashing down. Some "rich" folks earn their pay, many (see W as the prime example, and Cheney as another) steal from other sources and call it "hard werk".

It is also worth reminding these folks that no one is being prevented from becoming rich through their hard work and innovation. A slight bit more is being taken out of their already substantial paychecks to help pay to get us out of the crap we are in (because of their wonderboy W). Anyone who thinks they will go broke because of a raise in rates from 35 to 40% or so is a., delusional, or b, already well on the way to broke anyway.


There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

[rrneck]

11. If the market were

properly regulated it would work just fine. When you have a bunch of Fascists in the White House it tends to go off the rails.

[lame54]

9. Weren't they born into it?

[rrneck]

10. Not the ones I've seen.

They're all middle class red staters with delusions of hitting the free market lottery. If you make less than around a hundred grand a year you're a Democrat whether you know it or not.

Although yes, they were born into the middle class, and it is about as far removed from the poor as the rich are from them. That's just another example of making people think they're part of the "success club" by demonizing the poor, when in reality, we're all serfs.