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DirkGently

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8. "I don't want to be rich in a society that can't pay to invest ..."

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:36 AM

Jun 2014

This is it. This is what doesn't penetrate in America, somehow. The Koch-minded among us would prefer to live in diamond-plated palaces surrounded by mud and barbed wire than to pay a penny to support the civilization that enables their own wealth.

Maybe we're just too big a country to be smart, collectively. Too much stupid dilutes any reasonable thoughts we might have.

Nice to see other countries getting it, anyway.

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Wealthy Austrians Are Demanding Their Taxes Be Raised [View all] xchrom Jun 2014 OP

Austria already has one of the fairest income distributions in the world. Nice to see they are not pampango Jun 2014 #1

Wish I could afford to live there. Nt newfie11 Jun 2014 #2

DU Rec. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #3

Why do they hate America? valerief Jun 2014 #4

I know. Right? Those Austrians are just trying to make the US look bad. How selfish of them! n/t pampango Jun 2014 #6

Will. Never. Happen. Here. EEO Jun 2014 #5

That's presumably not "Austrians" in the economic sense of the word nxylas Jun 2014 #7

"I don't want to be rich in a society that can't pay to invest ..." DirkGently Jun 2014 #8

I believe it is because few Americans travel BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #9

Yes. Isolation is clearly part of the problem. DirkGently Jun 2014 #11

We are in perfect agreement BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #12

Throw them under the bus. Octafish Jun 2014 #10