Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:16 PM
Playinghardball (5,536 posts)
Bernie Sanders On Why Some Billionaires Are Running For The Border
Oh he’s angry. You should be too
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re well aware that not all “rich people” are avoiding paying taxes (just look at the Patriotic Millionaires) and Bernie probably is, too. But his point about how wrong it is for the ones who are still stands.
Found on Bernie Sanders’ Facebook page/MoveOn.org
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42 replies, 14974 views
| Author | Time | Post | |
| Playinghardball | Jul 2012 | OP | |
| fascisthunter | Jul 2012 | #1 | |
| harun | Jul 2012 | #13 | |
| lovuian | Jul 2012 | #15 | |
| KansDem | Jul 2012 | #2 | |
| felix_numinous | Jul 2012 | #3 | |
| ProSense | Jul 2012 | #4 | |
| jillan | Jul 2012 | #5 | |
| judesedit | Jul 2012 | #11 | |
| 90-percent | Jul 2012 | #39 | |
| BumRushDaShow | Jul 2012 | #6 | |
| Electric Monk | Jul 2012 | #7 | |
| Zalatix | Jul 2012 | #25 | |
| lumpy | Jul 2012 | #8 | |
| PADemD | Jul 2012 | #12 | |
| lumpy | Jul 2012 | #31 | |
| PADemD | Jul 2012 | #42 | |
| DonCoquixote | Jul 2012 | #9 | |
| nanabugg | Jul 2012 | #10 | |
| spanone | Jul 2012 | #14 | |
| mckara | Jul 2012 | #16 | |
| PatrynXX | Jul 2012 | #17 | |
| ErikJ | Jul 2012 | #18 | |
| chknltl | Jul 2012 | #19 | |
| dotymed | Jul 2012 | #36 | |
| chknltl | Jul 2012 | #37 | |
| magic59 | Jul 2012 | #20 | |
| Herlong | Jul 2012 | #21 | |
| HiPointDem | Jul 2012 | #30 | |
| cali | Jul 2012 | #22 | |
| limpyhobbler | Jul 2012 | #23 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jul 2012 | #24 | |
| Downtown Hound | Jul 2012 | #26 | |
| mntleo2 | Jul 2012 | #34 | |
| jonthebru | Jul 2012 | #27 | |
| RainDog | Jul 2012 | #28 | |
| MrSlayer | Jul 2012 | #29 | |
| Fresh_Start | Jul 2012 | #32 | |
| Fantastic Anarchist | Jul 2012 | #33 | |
| GreenTea | Jul 2012 | #35 | |
| closeupready | Jul 2012 | #38 | |
| gtar100 | Jul 2012 | #40 | |
| ck4829 | Jul 2012 | #41 |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:18 PM
fascisthunter (28,608 posts)
1. they were always PARASITES!
Response to fascisthunter (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:43 PM
harun (9,743 posts)
13. +1, they'll attach themselves to some other entity and feed there.
Response to fascisthunter (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:49 PM
lovuian (18,380 posts)
15. Yep and they use our children to defend
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their Corporations
these wars have been all about Corporations!!! |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:22 PM
KansDem (24,353 posts)
2. Well, first the billionaires moved jobs offshore...
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...then, they moved their new-found swag from "trickle down" and Bush tax cuts into secret tax havens offshore.
So, fuck 'em...let them go! I laugh whenever I hear a One Percenter say if they don't get more tax cuts, they'll leave the USA. I say to them, "Go ahead! you moved jobs and wealth offshore, what's keeping you here?" Fuck 'em and the yacht they floated in on... |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:29 PM
felix_numinous (3,246 posts)
3. K&R!!
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:30 PM
ProSense (98,266 posts)
4. Awesome! n/t
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:32 PM
jillan (31,392 posts)
5. Yep - the rw are always saying they support our troops louder than anyone else - but when it comes
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to paying for our troops - whether it's their salaries, healthcare needs, jobs when they get back - or even their body armor...
NO WAY will they allow their taxes to be raised to take care of our troops. It's pathetic!!!! |
Response to jillan (Reply #5)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:26 PM
judesedit (1,190 posts)
11. Excellent point!
Response to jillan (Reply #5)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:38 PM
90-percent (4,607 posts)
39. I support the snot out of our troops
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My yellow ribbon sticker is twice as big as everybody else's!
I do find myself having to replace it ever five years or so, because it get's bleached and cracked. But, nothing is too good for our troops! -90% jimmy |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:35 PM
BumRushDaShow (11,956 posts)
6. Maybe they believe the end really is near
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and the tax man will eventually come, perhaps sooner rather than later.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:49 PM
Electric Monk (7,730 posts)
7. Let em leave, then send in the drones
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Response to Electric Monk (Reply #7)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:51 AM
Zalatix (8,994 posts)
25. +1,000,000!!! LOL!!!
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:58 PM
lumpy (12,143 posts)
8. I would classify the "eat and runners" as traitors. Anyone who denies
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their allegiance to the US should lose their right to set foot on US soil forever.
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Response to lumpy (Reply #8)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:27 PM
PADemD (2,013 posts)
12. Breathes there a man with soul so dead
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said, "This is my own, my native land!" http://allpoetry.com/poem/8479537-Breathes_There_the_Man..._From_the_Lay_of_the_Last_Minstrel-by-Sir_Walter_Scott |
Response to PADemD (Reply #12)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:38 AM
lumpy (12,143 posts)
31. I love that quote from Sir Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel
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nt
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Response to lumpy (Reply #31)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 09:50 PM
PADemD (2,013 posts)
42. We had to memorize it in our high school senior year
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:23 PM
DonCoquixote (5,630 posts)
9. It will be fun when
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Pirates start raiding their castles, or the nations they do business with realize that they can get more bang for their buck by simply shooting them and taking their wealth. Yes, I do look forward to when the Chinese start their killing again.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:25 PM
nanabugg (2,198 posts)
10. Wait until they run into the people abroad who are not billionaires. nt
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:45 PM
spanone (72,136 posts)
14. k&r...
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:53 PM
mckara (1,431 posts)
16. Good Riddance!!!
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:15 PM
PatrynXX (2,566 posts)
17. no different than bernie madoff
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should be thrown in jail and tried for treason. left and right
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:27 PM
ErikJ (2,691 posts)
18. So YOURE John GALT? Buh bye freeloader!
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:41 PM
chknltl (8,754 posts)
19. re: Sen. Sanders
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Back in the days of DU-1, someone ran a poll to see who would be the DEMOCRATIC Underground's favorite politician. One might expect that politician to have been a Democrat but that guess would be wrong. Senator Bernie Sanders won our votes, (and hearts), in a comfortable landslide.
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Response to chknltl (Reply #19)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:48 PM
dotymed (4,406 posts)
36. It is a shame that Bernie has never ran for President...n/t
Response to dotymed (Reply #36)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 03:45 PM
chknltl (8,754 posts)
37. He knows we feel that way....let us be grateful for what he gave us. eom
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:05 AM
magic59 (429 posts)
20. The filthy rich are the real freeloaders
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They bled this country dry and now are jumping ship like rats.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:12 AM
Herlong (577 posts)
21. And the consumers are HERE.
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Response to Herlong (Reply #21)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:56 AM
HiPointDem (17,117 posts)
30. not without jobs, they aren't. consumers can be created anywhere. pay them to make your
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Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:02 AM USA/ET - Edit history (2) crap, then take back the wages in exchange for the same crap.
it's a good scam. to be perfectly clear, they pay us wages to help them control more and more of the world. we clear the forests, build the roads and transportation networks, build the machines that harvest the crops, do the research that creates new technologies, inventions, weapons, insights into the mind --- and all our work just goes to perfect their control over us. people have been taught to think that capital is just after profits, and we think profits are dependent on a thriving consumer economy. it's not the case. they can create profits out of air (as they are now) while the consumer economy is in the toilet. they can forgo profits and drive smaller competitors out of business. it's about power & control. |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:19 AM
cali (80,243 posts)
22. No, I don't believe Bernie is a millionaire. And I know Pat Leahy isn't.
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:22 AM
limpyhobbler (6,679 posts)
23. kick
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:47 AM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,390 posts)
24. I say if they leave America and give up their US Citizenship
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That means they can no longer call themselves an American Company and can't use US courts for their contracts and patents.
Move to China? You have to go to a Chinese Court. |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:29 AM
Downtown Hound (8,210 posts)
26. Hey billionaires! Please let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
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Because you know, that would be funny!
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Response to Downtown Hound (Reply #26)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:13 PM
mntleo2 (2,283 posts)
34. I was just gonna say the same thing ...
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Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you! Get outta here you parasites! Buy-bye! We don't need you, 'cause we got each other and can collectively do more for America than you blood suckers who have sucked us dry!
Why don't you rich Republican and Libertarians just go to Darfur or Somalia where there are no laws, which should be your heaven on earth where you would not pay anything to the government? Just make sure you have enough $Millions to hire a private army to replace the American soldiers you've slaughtered to protect your hoards ~ and of course you may also need to hire body guards also so this "Somalian army" doesn't slaughter you and rape your children and kidnap them to join them whie you are all in your own beds. Why that ought to save you some American tax dollars, you mooching selfish pigs! How mad am I? Well since I am a low income tax payer who pays a higher rate of taxes than any other class, you goddamn betcha I am mad and detest these deadbeats who I continue to support financially because they are too cheap-ass to pay their fair share and support their own selfish asses. G00D-BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE, YOU MISERLY SKINFLINTS! Wow, I feel a little better now ... Cat in Seattle |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:01 AM
jonthebru (966 posts)
27. By definition, a multinational corporation is not patriotic
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not patriotic to any nation or national interest. They should have no special treatment, let them leave.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:03 AM
RainDog (24,270 posts)
28. k&r n/t
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:50 AM
MrSlayer (21,358 posts)
29. He's a lone voice in the wilderness.
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Nearly alone anyway. We need some young successors to pass the Kennedy torch to. A firebrand for the working man. Bernie rules.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:11 AM
Fresh_Start (7,327 posts)
32. I read one of the European politicians comments on the wealthy who leave the country to avoid taxes
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he said something like - we don't need people who have no civic responsibility
I thought it was appropriate |
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:51 AM
Fantastic Anarchist (2,360 posts)
33. Love Bernie!
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We need a revolution!
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:04 PM
GreenTea (5,149 posts)
35. Pure fucking GREED! - Made money off our country now running & hiding from giving their
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Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:07 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) fair share - disgusting, sick selfish lying greedy bastards....could not care less about our country, the less-fortunate or American working people who make the profits for the rich & their corporations, consume their over priced products, slimy schemes and low-wages - through collusion, cutting corners, loop-holes, out sourcing jobs, teams of lobbyist, receiving government contracts (via our taxes) and government subsidies (corporate welfare) - while hiding their money just like Romney in off-shore accounts!!
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:37 PM
closeupready (19,473 posts)
38. Wow. I am so in awe of him. Preach it, Bernie!!!
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Bernie Sanders for President. K&R
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 07:09 PM
gtar100 (2,532 posts)
40. Well, I for one would be glad to see the Kochs go away.
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How much money do some people need anyway? It's all a game to them and they could care less about the suffering they cause. The sooner they stop fucking with this country the better.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:30 PM
ck4829 (15,329 posts)

