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mb999

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54. There should be maximum personal and corporate wealth limits

Reply to Louisiana1976 (Reply #34)

Tue Oct 21, 2014, 10:28 PM

Oct 2014

and a minimum guaranteed standard of living. Public utlilites should be just that, public and controlled by the government including health care and education. Eliminate the insurance cartel out of health care. Forgive all student debt.

No one person or corporation should be able to control so much wealth they can buy the congress and nullify the democratic process with their money. Super rich oligarchs should not exist. Period. Inheritance of wealth should be capped at a maximum amount. Why should anyone be born rich? Let them earn it and play with it while they are here. When they die it gets redistributed. no one should be in poverty.

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RE: your fourth paragraph....... socialist_n_TN Oct 2014 #60

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Hopefully the workers in these real assets take them....... socialist_n_TN Oct 2014 #62

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Rich people are just not all that smart. Some are cunning. greatlaurel Oct 2014 #7

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I recently saw a very plausible estimate that hifiguy Oct 2014 #15

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Yeah.... Rich people don't let their money "sit there" Adrahil Oct 2014 #65

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i'd be content to leave the means of production for non-essentials hifiguy Oct 2014 #47

Add retirement abelenkpe Oct 2014 #52

There should be maximum personal and corporate wealth limits mb999 Oct 2014 #54

it will get far worse before everything implodes, hifiguy Oct 2014 #12

Ten years sounds about right to me. GliderGuider Oct 2014 #14

Maintenance costs The2ndWheel Oct 2014 #31

Speaking of maintenance costs GliderGuider Oct 2014 #36

As they say, Rome wasn't destroyed in a day . . . . hatrack Oct 2014 #38

+1 nt GliderGuider Oct 2014 #39

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Yes, "funneling" works. GliderGuider Oct 2014 #27

Not anytime soon. MontyPow Oct 2014 #19

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Yep.... Easily. And almost all Americans are in the top 10% Adrahil Oct 2014 #63

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I don't know if Keene qualifies, but OWS sure does. GliderGuider Oct 2014 #43

Okay, I have read every post in this thread. I need to start reading again. I know what you are jwirr Oct 2014 #46

But that one percent work much harder than the 99%.* Enthusiast Oct 2014 #48

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As surely as the sun rises in the east. hifiguy Oct 2014 #57

They want it ALLLLLL! Uben Oct 2014 #53

The only 'rupture' (Rapture?) that will occur is that taxation will become more equitable. randome Oct 2014 #66