The Poor Owe the Rich - musings of Gene Simmons

[kwolf68]

I searched for topic...not on here. So I figured some would enjoy this...I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

"The one percent pays 80 percent of all taxes. Fifty percent of the population of the US pays no taxes. The one percent provides all the jobs for everybody else. If the one percent didn't exist there would be chaos and the economy would drop dead," he told UTSanDiego.com.

"Try being nice to rich people. I don't remember the last poor person who gave me a job."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gene-simmons-tells-poor-people-they-owe-rich-epic-rant-1457591

[belzabubba333]

1. there's a reason his group in called piss

[HughBeaumont]

2. Uhhhhhhh . . . it ain't the wealthy that are buying your records, Chaim.

It's POOR PEOPLE!!!

So much fail in one statement. The 1 percent don't pay 80% of all taxes, and even if they did, it's kind of justified since they own 85% of all the wealth. The Heritage-concocted 50% (I thought it was 47%??) Lie that Romney kept parroting has been debunked so many damned times it's not even worth recycling. The one percent couldn't provide job ONE if no one demanded their product . . . or if no one was able to AFFORD their product (but I don't expect Mr. Witz to connect those dots).

If the one percent didn't exist, you'd have an economy that would be fairer, more balanced, possess a far stronger safety net with universal health care, less concerned about military shenanigans just "because", have FAR LESS chaos and would be able to recover from tough times faster (see: Germany, much of Scandanavia, Canada, etc).

Fuck being nice to rich people who can't see the big picture. If poor people didn't purchase your merchandise, you wouldn't BE rich, stupid. No one HAD to like you.

Concentrate on improving your bass playing . . . . plenty to keep you busy there.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Hey Gene, if you rich fucks paid these "lowly poor people" a living wage, instead of being miserly,

hoarding, arrogant, selfish jerks, then you wouldn't need to continuously justify your thieving (stealing other peoples' energy and time) behavior.

Sorry for the run-on sentence.

[procon]

4. stupid remark on his part

He's got it all backwards; without all those "poor" people who buy his music and concert tickets, HE wouldn't have a job!

[JHB]

5. In other words he forgets all the places he played when starting out

[JaneyVee]

6. Who made HIM rich with album sales/concerts?

Please, HE owes the mid class and poor.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. I guess then he must have printed all his money himself.

That makes more sense now. I never bought the idea that it came from album sales and running around in gimmicky clown suits. There just aren't that many pre-teens with really bad taste in music.