What are the wealthy being asked to sacrifice?

[SHRED]

We have a whole laundry list for the rest of us:

Social Security
Medicare
No single-payer
Endless war
Pay freezes
Layoffs
Cuts in education
etc...


But what are wealthy being asked to sacrifice?



:shrug:

[inna]

1. absolutely NOTHING. K&R

[Canuckistanian]

60. Say it again n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. That is indeed the question that's been on my mind for months....

wealthy in terms of tax evading corporations as well as the personally wealthy.

What indeed?

[SHRED]

4. They benefited from our system...

...and now they are walking away with the loot?

I wonder if they ever worry or think they are safe in those gated communities?


just sayin'

[Xenotime]

49. Nothing...They just keep taking and taking.

[daleanime]

3. Well, they have already lost their conscience....

not that many of them have noticed.:banghead:

[WCGreen]

5. A tee time at the club....

A new patio for their summer digs in the Hamptons...

A lesser brand of Vodka...

These might be some of the things they would consider a burden...

If they came to fruition.

[Lorien]

11. They've been able to afford 6th and 8th vacation homes under Bush and Obama

and with that kind of wealth patios, vodka and tee time are downright middle class. We're talking multi-million dollar private jets, private islands, and six or seven luxury vacation homes PLUS various million dollar yachts. I've known some of them personally and most people here can't conceive of the kind of wealth that they have.

[WCGreen]

14. For instance, Mrs WCGreen's cousin owns outright 17 radio stations....

I know some truly wealthy people myself.

What I was pointing out that it would be that insignificant to the truly wealthy, a minor inconvenience to pay a little more in taxes...

[Lorien]

17. It would really mean slightly less growth in wealth

their wealth would not significantly diminish, they would just see a slower rate of growth at this point because they are so obscenely rich that they can only get richer. They won't be taxed on what they own already, only future profits.

I know several owners and CEOs of major film studios, the Producers of strings of blockbusters, and I knew the late Roy Disney. All of them are/ were Dems, oddly enough.

[Skittles]

6. they don't HAVE to sacrifice anything

our government SERVES THEM

[HEyHEY]

7. The same things. The only difference is they don't notice the hit.

[TBF]

38. Is that true though? Are they really sacrificing anything - bonuses are up 5% this year on Wall St.

By AARON LUCCHETTI

Wall Street bonuses are set to rise about 5% this year, fueled by increases to compensation for employees in hedge funds, retail banking and private equity that offset declines for those in stock and bond trading, according to a survey by compensation consultants Johnson Associates Inc.

read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704506404575592644050046172.html

[liberation]

64. Technically, one can't "sacrifice" what one "doesn't notice"

;-)

[jannyk]

8. Fuck All as per usual. eom

[flvegan]

9. More wealth. Which is why nothing will happen.

Look, leave the rich alone. That's something that both mainstream Dems* and Repugs can agree upon.

See that asterisk? Yeah, I love it too.

[jberryhill]

10. The rest of us

Do you have any idea how upsetting it must be to watch all of this?

[Horse with no Name]

12. Their gardeners? n/t

[Lorien]

13. Again, you're thinking too small

upper middle class people have gardeners. The wealthy have parks with dozens of caretakers. I know one multi-millionaire who owns about six luxury homes, her own private jet, and an island. A whole freaking Island right off the Dominican Republic. She goes there to work on her tan. And she ain't a fraction as rich as many out there.

[lpbk2713]

15. Meg Whitman had to give up her housekeeper.

After Nutmeg was caught, that is. :eyes:

[alfredo]

16. Cutting the servant's pay has made them grumpy.

I can't write my autobiography with grumpy servants moping around.

[Lorien]

20. If they cut anything they were just using the economy as an excuse

because the past two administrations have grown their wealth considerably.

[alfredo]

28. Jefferson tried to warn us.

[liberation]

65. About sleeping with the help?

[alfredo]

67. That too.

[Liquorice]

18. The wealthy never sacrifice anything and they never will. What could they possibly

sacrifice anyway, their third yacht? Their second vacation home? Obama needs to make them pay their fair share, which won't even have any effect on their daily lives. These ultra-wealthy people who complain about taxes are just plain old greedy.

[DLnyc]

19. Good Fucking Question!

What would be so bad about a little pay freeze for millionaires? Cuts in bonuses? A little belt tightening for the fat cats?

Psycho fucking world we live in. Squeeze the working class to make juice for the rich.

[TheKentuckian]

21. I did hear the custom built island industry took a hard hit.

So, I guess there is some level of "belt tightening" or maybe Dubai seems less of a fantastic idea to some of them.

[liberal N proud]

22. The rich could not withstand sacrifice

They know nothing of it and wouldn't understand it.




:sarcasm:

[krispos42]

23. Day-of-the-week Bentleys?

That fourth vacation "cottage"?

[w4rma]

24. Nothing. They are actually accumulating even more wealth because of all of this. (nt)

[Joe Fields]

25. This is how I envision the wealthy protesting over the tax cuts....

(Man sitting in back of limo)
"Oh, Jeeves, hold that sign a little higher."

[applegrove]

26. Exactly.

[avaistheone1]

27. Zip

[Raine]

29. "Certainty"

I've actually heard the talking heads moaning about how the poor wealthy are having to deal with the "uncertainty" of whether they will get their tax cuts. :nopity: Oh the poor things! :sarcasm:

edit: typo

[laughingliberal]

30. Poor things are going to need to build bigger safes for all their wealth. nt

[Hawkowl]

31. The wealthy sacrifice humans

Of course the humans they sacrifice are strangers. Merely fellow countrymen who are unrelated to them. Greed must be fed by blood. Just not their blood.

[Swamp Rat]

32. a second yacht, another vacation home in France, another coat made of human skin

[Demeter]

33. the Poor, on a Stone Altar, With a Dull Blade

[Karmadillo]

34. Well, they're having to sacrifice the illusion that the US has two major political parties.

nt

[PA Democrat]

35. Other people's children.

It PAINS them to occasionally be forced to see the homeless on the streets or the human casualties of the wars waged in their names.

[progressoid]

36. But why should they?

They have worked sooooo hard for their billions.

[hobbit709]

37. Until a great shortening comes, they won't sacrifice anything.

[ck4829]

39. Why are you trying to start a class war?

Everyone knows that if you bring up the fact that we're sacrificing our infrastructure, social programs, and quality of life just to make the lives of the wealthy easier; then you must hate America!!!!11one!

:sarcasm:

K&R

[jtown1123]

51. ZERO. I wish someone in the MSM or Congress had the balls to shout this from the rooftops

[HughBeaumont]

40. The only thing that will make them care is a few of them getting physically harmed by the people.

Not like that's ever going to happen in a country filled with nosepickers that think they're going to BE Larry Elison or Bernie Marcus someday.

[hobbit709]

42. "The privileged class never gets the point until they are running for their lives"

[FiveGoodMen]

58. I've got to say, I think it has come down to exactly that.

We're going to win or lose a war here at home (most likely lose it) but we're not going to avoid one.

[HughBeaumont]

61. I should put that on a t-shirt.

Is that from an author?

[WinkyDink]

41. The very term "wealthy" would indicate the answer.

[blindpig]

43. Nothing, they make the rules.

There is no countervailing force to stop them, yet. And when that force, by utter desperate necessity comes to be, it will not stop until this matter is finished once and for all.

k&r

[era veteran]

44. We were told to ' Eat Cake' (yellow)

They are busy accumulating more wealth. The country that enabled them to get rich and they want to gut it and get the last dollar out of your pocket. Class war is and has been going on for a long time. They, the rich, are winning every battle. I hope they remember they need to win the last battle too, Revolution! That is when the masses rise up. A terrible thought indeed.

[raccoon]

45. Nada. K&R nt

[glitch]

46. The tiny cold hard remnants of their souls.

And they're happy to do it.

[mmonk]

47. Us.

[Joanne98]

48. NOTHING! NADA!

[eleny]

50. K&R - I've been wondering the same thing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=535982&mesg_id=535999

[KharmaTrain]

52. They Pay The Pipers...

We just finished a very long and expensive campaign cycle, the next one has already begun. All over the beltway, Congresscritters are looking at their "warchests" that need to be rebuilt and in a hurry. Most will need $2 million or more to keep their jobs and the sooner they bag the cash the better they'll sleep at night.

The wealthy are the ones writing those checks right now. They're the ones whose phone calls get answered and its their interests that are now being catered to. To the wealthy, writing the checks to the various campaigns is their "sacrifice" as well as an "investment".

[Kablooie]

53. Why they are sacrificing YOU! Haven't you noticed?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. shout it from the rooftops!!

2 vs 98 .... :wtf:

[Wednesdays]

55. Oh, FFS. Leave 'em alone already.

[Eddie Haskell]

56. Contract for America

Tax cuts for the rich
Wage cuts for the rest

[RobertSeattle]

57. Duh - They might have to skip that 4th Ski Trip to Vail

...If the Bush tax cuts aren't extended.

[flvegan]

59. Hey, they have to suffer the sight of more and more of us living on the street.

Why won't anyone think of the suffering of the wealthy and what they endure just having to be chauffeured around to dinner or the shops?

[MichiganVote]

62. An illegal immigrant or two?

[vssmith]

63. I would let the taxes for all of us go back up to Clinton levels

rather than let the rich bleed the system dry. In other words I would take a hit to see them PAY

[liberation]

66. One very wealthy person once said this:

Economic depressions/recessions/crisis are the times when wealth and assets are returned to their true owners: the super wealthy.

Some people still think that economic cycles are acts or god or something.