Agreed. Apples and Oranges.

I'm not saying it's trivial, I'm saying taking $3 to $1m is not the same.

'Hi Mr. Bank I'd like to loan $300k to sell books out of my garage.'
'gtfo'

Irsay should be in jail. And I don't want to drug test food stamp (or UBI) recipients personally though I understand I am not being specifically referred to in that part.

People get loans like this. It might not be easy, but its not impossible.

Read the story about how Masayoshi Son founded Softbank (https://hbr.org/1992/01/japanese-sty...-masayoshi-son). The whole article is good, but this part outlines him getting an even bigger loan than that more than a decade earlier (in a more conservative financial system nonetheless) without any collateral, business experience, or co-signers.

LOL that loan is literally illegal under current US banking regs, for good reason.

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interesting. I didn't know this. What is the statute it violates?

Even still you can get $300k from an angel investor in the form of a loan or equity. Hell, people get $300k in capital from a ****ing TV show pitch these days.

*****, that phrase don't make no sense! Why can't fruit be compared?

WTF? Let's go to the tape:

That's you, at the start of this all, whining about high taxes on the rich funding aid to the poor too much.

CDL is pretty much crushing the debate right now

How is it acceptable to advocate for the murder of Jeff Bezos to steal his assets itt, yet people choose to make CDL the bad guy?

just saw this but pretty relevant

CDL is doing well. And at least he’s stated a position. Near as I can tell no one else really has.

Increased personal income taxes, gift taxes and estate taxes make sense. You can do annual wealth taxes but I think estate taxes are both simpler and fairer. Like what is everyone else proposing?

Somewhat (not entirely) separate issue: Philosophically corporate rates should be set optimally. Right now I believe 35% was closer to that than 20%. But we will see the results. Similarly the Bush tax cuts expiring seemed to hurt the economy zero while jacking up government revenues. I expect the reverse to happen here on both the personal and corporate tax fronts after the new bill takes effect.

Taxes are a waste. It doesn't solve anything at all. I would much rather see companies forced to have an aggressive profit sharing program that is equal among ALL of the employees.

Not really. He just keeps shifting the goal posts. Also, continuously ducks the political realities that prevent his stated goals from coming to fruition. Amazon is sucking up jobs that were previously widely disbursed and concentrating them in one area. It makes sense for each city to aggressively bribe Bezos to be that one area given that reality. However, it is highly immoral of him to demand such bribe, and it’s takes aggressive counter-action to address his immorality. Vague support of higher taxes while vouching for Bezos entitlement to his $100 billion as he continues to aggressively move us further away from your stated goals is just lip service.

Corp taxes need to be low enough to avoid companies hiding all their money abroad. Or at least have laws were they can’t avoid taxes if they operate in this country by hiding profits abroad that they make here. The biggest issue with the current rates are we have huge firms like GE off shoring all their profits and not paying a nickel while likely getting huge benefits from the gov. We want great companies in the us, paying their fair share but that isn’t going to happen with some of the highest corporate income taxes in the world.





These are obviously old numbers but despite the highest tax rates for corporations in the developed world, our government didn’t collect that much. I’m not sure if the new plan will fix all the holes but the current system helped all big corps hide money.

A guy whose insulin gofundme came up short might be ACTUALLY DEAD, but that's acceptable. All our of bravest most logical anti-establishment libertarians are crying about a ****ing guillotine joke instead. That's what has got tempers high.

Also boy howdy our ombudsman logical fallacy spotter types are scoring this one for CDL because of how he's making such incredibly good points about nonsense hypothetical to equalize wealth that nobody but him is saying. Because he, in 2018, has apparently encountered criticism of income inequality FOR THE FIRST TIME here and it's blown his mind, he's baffled, he's never seen such a thing.

That seems like a strawman to me, but I guess you guys think CDL is like a child or something and he's doing a decent effort at big boy talk. Grading on a curve, I can understand.

But Bezos is $100 billion more valuable to society than this guy they never heard of, it is logical for them to be so much more concerned about Bezos. Never heard of him for good reason I might add, he didn’t build a big, beautiful company like Bezos. Stop being so emotional, we need Bezos in our life and should all be concerned with his well-being.

There's nothing special about Bezos, if it hadn't been him and Amazon some other sociopath would've built the world's biggest online retailer. The economics of the industry aren't going to change so it would've happened anyway, with or without him.

Im kinda getting sick of the term income inequality btw. Think that term benefits the wealthy even more than it should.

We should really be mad about Wealth Inequality.

Your whole appearance last night was a giant strawman. And you keep doing it in the post before the one quoted here about some guys insulin. CDL has said for multiple times now that he favors single payer, but go ahead and tell everyone what he really believes, smartass.

Want to improve people living in poverty by raising taxes, single payer healthcare for all and cutting military spending? **** you, because the cool thing to believe now is beheading CEOs in the name of income inequality.

It's a dilemma. Do you want the money to stay with the billionaires or go to the federal government? Neither option is good.

"Low enough", if you want to accomplish what you propose, will likely have to mean "lowest in the world" or multinational corporations will just shift it to where it's cheapest.
Sending money to lower-taxed jurisdictions is happening even in countries with reasonably low corporation tax rates.

Whole lotta people itt taking hyperbole literally.

I thought some of those posts concerned about Bezos were levels initially.