{"id":1598,"date":"2012-08-17T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:07:58","slug":"super-rich-to-middle-class-no-more-free-ride-you-lazy-bums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Super-Rich to Middle Class \u2014 No More Free Ride You Lazy Bums"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s guest blog post has been submitted by a “friend” writing under the nom de plume, Mr. Richie Moneybags Rich:<\/em><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, back in the 1920’s, there was a lot of new stuff, telephones, movies. A small group of people<\/span> Everyone was getting cars.\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 Then the stock-market crashed.\u00a0 Party over for widows, orphans, unemployed<\/span> all those bums who hadn’t sufficiently diversified their portfolios or got swindled<\/span> carried away buying on margin.\u00a0 There are always winners and losers, and generally people get what they inherit<\/span> deserve.<\/p>\n

Then that brash, traitor, FDR got elected and declared class-warfare<\/span> started the New Deal.\u00a0 Suddenly it was freebies for everyone!\u00a0 Even the elderly, people who hadn’t worked in years, could get in social security.\u00a0 Immigrants?\u00a0 Give us your poor,<\/em>except not too many Jews<\/span><\/a> <\/a>etc<\/em>.<\/p>\n

To be fair, if he’d done nothing, the commies might have stepped in, but surely the Pinkertons<\/a> could have dealt with that! \u00a0 Did he have to take things that far?\u00a0\u00a0 Granted, roads needed to be built, and dams needed to be constructed, but couldn’t he just have handed out nice big juicy contracts to my grandfather’s company<\/span> negotiated with the private sector?\u00a0 We all know how much more efficient private industry is when it comes to building things and it was, after all,\u00a0 the slaves<\/span> job-creators who built this country.<\/p>\n

Truman tried to continue down the road to creating a stable middle-class<\/span> socialism with his crazy health-care schemes, but fortunately, Congress could be bought off<\/span> see his plan could have been designed by the Rosenbergs themselves..\u00a0 Then that damn LBJ came in and got that garbage Medicare signed, and gave us the Great Society.\u00a0 What’s so great about paying someone else’s bills?<\/p>\n

The rich have gotten fed up with all those give aways.\u00a0 Like\u00a0 Alan Simpson said, social security is “a milk cow with 310 million tits.”\u00a0 Who needs it?\u00a0 Not people making millions every year off their investments and paying less than 1%<\/span> 14% in taxes, that’s for sure.\u00a0 Ditto public education.\u00a0 I mean really, what kind of concerned parent would send his child to a public school in the first place?\u00a0 Why should I pay for someone else’s child to get a sub-standard education?\u00a0 Besides, do you know what they teach in those places? It’s all science <\/span>evolution and global warming, not to mention their stand on the War of Northern Aggression. Plus, that means I’m paying the salary for some strangers’ kids’ teachers, and we all know how high on the hog those lazy-asses live.\u00a0 If you’re going to resent somebody, it’s those gosh darn teachers, police, and firefighters<\/span><\/a> municipal workers\u00a0 that you should look to. And don’t even get me started on Pell grants and low interest student loans.\u00a0 Sheesh, get a job!<\/p>\n

And that’s not all. \u00a0 Even public transportation is supported through taxes!\u00a0 Public transportation!\u00a0 As though I’d be caught dead on bus.\u00a0 Amirite?\u00a0 Bastards even get “special” lanes.<\/p>\n

And of course there’s Romneycare<\/span> <\/span>the Affordable Care Act<\/span> Obamacare!\u00a0 Naturally, people are outraged to be paying for equitable healthcare for women<\/span> some slut’s contraception, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0 Do you have any idea how much it costs when sick people with no insurance just “show up” in an emergency room?\u00a0 How could someone be so irresponsible to choose feeding your child and paying rent over preventive care <\/span>not to plan for emergencies?\u00a0 Really, there should be a law!<\/span> Why not just allow people inadequate<\/span> vouchers\u00a0 to benefit companies I have stock in<\/span> or pay out of pocket sell their homes<\/span>?\u00a0 Some total loon<\/span> nice lady politician out West had a plan for bartering for healthcare <\/a>and just got derided for it by every news outlet except Fox<\/span> the lamestream media.\u00a0 And if they\u00a0can’t possibly<\/span> refuse to pay for medical care, why treat them at all<\/a>? If they’d rather die let them do it and decrease the surplus population<\/span>.\u00a0 I mean it’s not like you can just walk into a supermarket, say “I’m hungry” and get a bunch of free food unless of course you’re on food stamps, IMHO.<\/p>\n

To top it off, these “middle income” slackers get tax breaks!\u00a0 Mortgage deductions.\u00a0 What’s that <\/em>about?\u00a0 Sure if they lose it, so do I, but I’m willing to find other shelters<\/span> make the sacrifice.\u00a0 Deductions for college savings.\u00a0 Since when did college become something minorities, women, the poor, not our kind of people<\/span> everyone should have the opportunity<\/span> is forced to go to?\u00a0 What kind of elitist b.s is that? \u00a0It’s not like you can’t get a minimum wage or lower off-the-books<\/span> job without a degree.<\/p>\n

Plus there’s even a deduction for state taxes.\u00a0 Why should you get a tax break because you live in a state where you can still find a job with union protection <\/span>that offers better schools and services?\u00a0 That’s your choice, not mine, buddy.<\/p>\n

You can see how all this is patently unfair to those of us who inherited<\/span> worked hard\u00a0 to get our money.\u00a0 As a job creator in Thailand and China<\/span> who has saved for a rainy day in the Cayman Islands<\/span>, I deeply resent paying for programs I personally don’t need and will never use.<\/p>\n

I mean, it’s not like I get to deduct for my recreational activities like that horse I took to the Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes it worse is all this petty emphasis on “percentages.”\u00a0 They don’t tell you what it really means.\u00a0 Here’s what it comes down to —\u00a0 if you are supporting a family and I can’t imagine how<\/span> on a taxable income of $50,000 a year, you’re going to pay about $7,274 in federal income tax.\u00a0 That’s 14.5% of your income, not counting what they take out of your paycheck for social security.\u00a0 And what do you get for it?\u00a0 All those goodies I mentioned earlier.\u00a0 But I don’t need any of that.\u00a0 You, the middle class, are in effect taking money out of my pocket to get services I’ll never use.\u00a0 What if you won 100 million dollars in the lottery tomorrow?\u00a0 Is that what it would take for you to have a little bit of empathy?<\/p>\n

Meantime, do you have any idea of what I pay to support your “lifestyle”? No, and I pay people good money to keep it that way<\/span>.\u00a0 Let’s say, I’m paying the same percentage as you, .085%<\/span> 14.5% on a taxable\u00a0 income of a modest\u00a0 50<\/span> 7 million a year.\u00a0 I’d be paying over a million dollars in taxes if I paid taxes.<\/span> Can you even imagine what a million dollars looks like? Believe me, it’s very pretty, and in the right denominations can be packed in a carry-on bag if heaven forbid you ever fly commercial. <\/span> <\/span> I’m already paying 140 times as much as you are.\u00a0 140 times!\u00a0 I mean what’s “progressive” about a system where one person pays 140 times what someone else pays?<\/p>\n

Sure, some people might argue that a strong middle class creates a stronger market like what happened in America after World War II or all that growth during the Clinton years,<\/span> and that America is falling behind because we don’t have a first rate educational system and they’d be right<\/span>, but those are the type of\u00a0 Democrats and anyone even slightly left of Ronald Reagan<\/span> latte-drinking elitists\u00a0 that forget that America isn’t exceptional because of our entitlements, but rather America\u00a0 is exceptional because we have\u00a0 a very high rate of income inequality compared to other developed countries<\/span> <\/a>our Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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