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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:16 PM

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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Reply Bernie Sanders On Why Some Billionaires Are Running For The Border (Original 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

1. they were always PARASITES!

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Response to fascisthunter (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:43 PM

13. +1, they'll attach themselves to some other entity and feed there.

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Response to fascisthunter (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:49 PM

15. Yep and they use our children to defend

their Corporations
these wars have been all about Corporations!!!

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:22 PM

2. Well, first the billionaires moved jobs offshore...

...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...

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:29 PM

3. K&R!!

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:30 PM

4. Awesome! n/t

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:32 PM

5. Yep - the rw are always saying they support our troops louder than anyone else - but when it comes

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!!!!

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Response to jillan (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:26 PM

11. Excellent point!

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Response to jillan (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:38 PM

39. I support the snot out of our troops

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

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:35 PM

6. Maybe they believe the end really is near

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

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

25. +1,000,000!!! LOL!!!

 

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:58 PM

8. I would classify the "eat and runners" as traitors. Anyone who denies

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

12. Breathes there a man with soul so dead

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

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Response to PADemD (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:38 AM

31. I love that quote from Sir Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel

nt

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Response to lumpy (Reply #31)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 09:50 PM

42. We had to memorize it in our high school senior year

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:23 PM

9. It will be fun when

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

10. Wait until they run into the people abroad who are not billionaires. nt

 

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:45 PM

14. k&r...

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:53 PM

16. Good Riddance!!!

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:15 PM

17. no different than bernie madoff

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

18. So YOURE John GALT? Buh bye freeloader!

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:41 PM

19. re: Sen. Sanders

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

36. It is a shame that Bernie has never ran for President...n/t

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Response to dotymed (Reply #36)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 03:45 PM

37. He knows we feel that way....let us be grateful for what he gave us. eom

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:05 AM

20. The filthy rich are the real freeloaders

 

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

21. And the consumers are HERE.

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Response to Herlong (Reply #21)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:56 AM

30. not without jobs, they aren't. consumers can be created anywhere. pay them to make your

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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.

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:19 AM

22. No, I don't believe Bernie is a millionaire. And I know Pat Leahy isn't.

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:22 AM

23. kick

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:47 AM

24. I say if they leave America and give up their US Citizenship

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.

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:29 AM

26. Hey billionaires! Please let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

Because you know, that would be funny!

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Response to Downtown Hound (Reply #26)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:13 PM

34. I was just gonna say the same thing ...

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

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:01 AM

27. By definition, a multinational corporation is not patriotic

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

28. k&r n/t

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:50 AM

29. He's a lone voice in the wilderness.

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

32. I read one of the European politicians comments on the wealthy who leave the country to avoid taxes

he said something like - we don't need people who have no civic responsibility

I thought it was appropriate

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:51 AM

33. Love Bernie!

We need a revolution!

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 02:04 PM

35. Pure fucking GREED! - Made money off our country now running & hiding from giving their

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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

38. Wow. I am so in awe of him. Preach it, Bernie!!!

Bernie Sanders for President. K&R

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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 07:09 PM

40. Well, I for one would be glad to see the Kochs go away.

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

41. K&R

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