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Okay but this literally isnt true- he could barely fund his own campaign
Hes not lower or middle class- but our world requires its warriors to also be endowed with money to fund their fight
Except it is true… In 2018, according to his tax return, Bernie Sanders’ adjusted gross income was $561,293, which puts him in the top 1% of household incomes (see below).
As for trying to justify it by saying that he could barely fund his own campaign, I fail to see the relevance considering his 2020 campaign was entirely funded through external sources (i.e. $0 came from himself).
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Berniefags eternally coping. NO REFUNDS
This is not even close to what a billionaire makes a year lol that’s no even a million a year 🤭🤭
And while it might be the 1% percent it’s the not the people the campaign was aimed lol
That’s interesting because his own website says otherwise:
“[Expanded Social Security] It is fully paid for by […] those with incomes over $250,000 a year…”
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“The greatest strength and wealth is self control”
— Pythagoras (6th century B.C. ) Greek Mathematician and philosopher
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Elijah Boardman by Ralph Earl, American Paintings and Sculpture
Bequest of Susan W. Tyler, 1979 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Oil on canvas
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“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
— Ayn Rand
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but the Democrat party owns the media
Isn’t it his WIFE’S money, too? Didn’t even earn it.
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- Diario las Americas claims that Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, has $4.2billion in assets held in American and Andorran banks
- Hugo Chavez famously declared ‘being rich is bad’ and during his lifetime railed against the wealthy for being lazy and gluttonous
- Efforts to determine Chavez’s wealth have been made before, without much luck
Only the well connected communists will avoid having to toil in the fields.
Gutfeld – Pope Francis should love capitalism
It’s sad watching this luddite leftist condemn capitalism when it has lifted millions of people out of poverty and despair, giving them hope and dinner, which is better than any religious organization and I include Amway. It wasn’t the Vatican that invented technologies and techniques that made food cheaper, break through medicines available, lives more livable–that was commerce, which the Pope should love. After all, he does sell insurance. Yet he attacks air conditioning, which has eased the suffering of millions. He’s still fine with using it to preserve Vatican art of course. But it’s your pious grandmother who can sweat.
So why hate progress? Well human enterprise refutes the leftism the Pope embraces. As commerce improves lives the worse his political ideology looks. He’d rather have humans put our faith in him as he claims our materialism ruins the planet and drives us to kill. And since our modern world now ignores the threat of God, the Pope uses green lingo to condemn our commerce. If God can’t stop you, think of the planet. But the Pope can only condemn innovation as long a he ignores what it brings. Life spans have doubled, food per capita has grown, violence is on the wane. It just goes to show, the worst kind of holy man is one who’s holier than though.
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Why is it that when government desires more money it is not considered greed, but when businesses desires more money it is? Because government serves the public interest? Businesses serve the public interest; if they don’t, they cease to exist. Because businesses enrich their own staff? Senators and Representatives very often become quite wealthy as a consequence of the special privileges of their jobs; including in ways that can bias their conduct against the absolute public interest.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to “topple” the wealthiest 1 percent
Naturally, Hillary doesn’t mean herself, even though she sits firmly in the wealthiest 1%. No, this applies to all the other nasty 1 percenters out there…
from NY Times:
In her 2008 campaign, Mrs. Clinton touted the prosperity of the 1990s. Today, the trade deals, Wall Street deregulation, and deficit reduction Mr. Clinton oversaw are often blamed as contributing to the current divide between a tiny sliver of the wealthiest and the vast majority of Americans… In a meeting with economists this year, Mrs. Clinton intensely studied a chart that showed income inequality in the United States. The graph charted how real wages, adjusted for inflation, had increased exponentially for the wealthiest Americans, making the bar so steep it hardly fit on the chart. Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people who were briefed on Mrs. Clinton’s policy discussions but could not discuss private conversations for attribution.
Also, if you’re a member of the dirty one percent, and you’d like to take your name off of the list if dirty one percenters who need toppling, all you need to do is make a sizable donation to Hillary’s campaign or one of the Clinton “charitable” foundations.
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VA - And, since she is one of those 1 percenter’s, she needs to be toppled…
Typical liberal. It’s never me, only them.
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Obamanomics: The rich get richer. Everyone else? Not so much.
According to the latest data, after 6 years of Obama, the only financial segment of the American population to see their incomes rise, have been the wealthy.
From Yahoo! News:
Most Americans’ incomes continued to fall last year, but the richest 20 percent saw theirs rise, a new Labor Department report showed Thursday. In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014. The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. But broken down into quintiles, those in the top 20 percent of incomes saw their money stream grow by 0.9 percent to $166,048 on average. Every other group lost ground, with the bottom 20 percent losing the most: their average income dropped 3.5 percent to $9,818.
Look, things naturally go up and down in an economy. Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it isn’t. But when government tries to fix a perceived injustice like the so-called “income gap”, it almost always exacerbates the problem and causes a string of new problems along the way.
Furthermore, it’s not the job of the President (or any other politician or bureaucrat) to set economic policy. The economy is a complicated organism that no one, no one, can fully understand. Attempting to “control” it is futile.
I’ve said it before and I will again, government cannot make an economy better. It can only make it worse. If politicians truly wanted to reduce the “income gap”, they would get out of the way. They would let those evil rich people invest, start businesses and hire employees. They would let them compete with one another to see who can have the biggest mansion or yacht without fear of burdensome taxation or onerous regulations. They would let the economy be what it is instead of what they think it should be.
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One of the best things about being a Democrat politician is all of the celebrities you get to rub shoulders with. Then, after all your weekend partying, you can go back to work and wag your finger at those evil rich people, and your constituents just eat it up! That is...