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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Feb 14, 2014, 12:20 PM Feb 2014

A dollar a Vote

Mr. Perkins, not content with the foot in his mouth, goes on a hyperbolic rant . Basically, if you are a pay a million in taxes, you should get a million votes. So many, many things wrong with that - first, I wonder if this guy even votes. Second, the rich often have negative tax incomes, does that mean they do not have the right to ever vote.

But, does give one insight to the rich person's mind - they do view themselves as true elitist and the only ones that have a legitamate right to govern because, like nobility, they are above the dirty masses. Plutocrats rise up!!! This democracy crap has been going on for long enough we give up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/tom-perkins-votes_n_4788086.html

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