Quote Originally Posted by bigdare23
My question is why defend the rich?!? I promise you they dont give a damn about anything but profit. Seriously, if they could replace every human employee with a robot to increase profit they would. There are few exceptions in every case (just like there are people on welfare that dont cheat the system), but this case they are few and far apart. I see it like this... if you have a problem, fix the root of the problem! Don't put that responsibility in someone hands that may or may not decide to help. That doesn't make sense. Thats like adding too many factors to the equation. You can get 10 by adding 5 and 5, but you can also get 10 by take 5 multiplying it by 45, and taking the square root of that. But why calcute 10 the second way when you has more chances of ****ing up.
I would hardly consider someone who made 250K a year rich. Most people who make that much are small business owners. Small businesses are what keep this country's economy from completely going under. Our entire economy depends on small businesses ten times more than large corporations. Why raise taxes on those who are keeping the economy afloat? So you can give it to those who have ****ed up the economy?

If the democrats hadn't pushed HUD through the economy would be in much better shape. HUD (which makes it illegal for mortgage discrimination) has made it where banks must make risky mortgages to people who can't pay it back. These risky mortgage loans are the main reason that the economy is so ****ed up right now. All these large banks are going out of business because of all the bad mortgages they have written and will never get paid back on. Even if the bank repo's houses, the market is so shot to **** right now that they would never be able to sell most of them at a high enough price just to break even, especially with house values in the toilet. Granted, some of the people who got these risky mortgages work hard to pay them back and improve their credit, but the vast majority do not.

Why defend the rich? Because the "rich" keep this country from being a poor third world country.