OMG the socialists are coming! Need Moar GOLD! The New York Times did a great big serious drill-downSunday on how the international money-launderers at the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca helped hide rich people's money from all over the world -- the great big hidden assets scandal revealed by the
It might be nice if they raise the exemption on the Estate Tax-- that would help the family farms, the (true) Mom & Pops, and the rest of what's left of middle class America.
Ayn Rand, bless her scabies-encrusted heart, was more subtle than that on inherited wealth. The way she saw it, inherited wealth would either give you a charmed life or utterly destroy you based on what you did with it, so it was morally neutral in itself.
I just remember reading (or trying to read) one of her dumb books (Fountainhead? Atlas Shrugged?), and there was an heiress constantly yapping about pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps. I think I was 14 at the time, and even I realized how incredibly dumb that was.
The Koch spawn would have a hell of a time trying to spend $80 billion dollars. They'd basically have to start setting thousand dollar bills on fire, and even then it would take decades. That kind of money is hard to squander away.
That's why I'm taking all my money out of the bank and investing in mattresses.It'll be barter only. Guns and goats/goat supplies. Silly people will have mattresses to hide their cash in and I'll survive the Apocalypse with gun toting goats.
I do Hard Work*, use Ingenuity** and take Risk***, and I iz still a poorz. What am I doing wrong?* That crushed rock isn't gonna move itself into the truck.** Other people might call it 'scrounging.'*** Ever move rocks in sandals? It's a wonder I still have toes.
It might be nice if they raise the exemption on the Estate Tax-- that would help the family farms, the (true) Mom & Pops, and the rest of what's left of middle class America.
Ayn Rand, bless her scabies-encrusted heart, was more subtle than that on inherited wealth. The way she saw it, inherited wealth would either give you a charmed life or utterly destroy you based on what you did with it, so it was morally neutral in itself.
she seems nice.
that's why i have a pitchfork in the shed. just because...
that's why the poor, and middle class are good for the economy. we spend that shit as fast as we can make it. some even faster.
you don't know me very well, do you?
what's not perverted about a sock drawer? you make this too easy. thanx for that, by the way.
I just remember reading (or trying to read) one of her dumb books (Fountainhead? Atlas Shrugged?), and there was an heiress constantly yapping about pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps. I think I was 14 at the time, and even I realized how incredibly dumb that was.
The Koch spawn would have a hell of a time trying to spend $80 billion dollars. They'd basically have to start setting thousand dollar bills on fire, and even then it would take decades. That kind of money is hard to squander away.
That's why I'm taking all my money out of the bank and investing in mattresses.It'll be barter only. Guns and goats/goat supplies. Silly people will have mattresses to hide their cash in and I'll survive the Apocalypse with gun toting goats.
Looks like me last Saturday. I stopped trying to figure out how much fill I loved round about the third load.
Love her to death, but...
"in increments of less than $100,000"
Ask ol' Denny how that's working for him.
what a mensch
I do Hard Work*, use Ingenuity** and take Risk***, and I iz still a poorz. What am I doing wrong?* That crushed rock isn't gonna move itself into the truck.** Other people might call it 'scrounging.'*** Ever move rocks in sandals? It's a wonder I still have toes.
Or two, three, six or ten generations ago.