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Bernie Sanders

bulloney

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3. We give these modern-day billioinaire families way too much credit and respect.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 09:40 AM

Jun 2015

Too many people think families like the Kochs and Waltons must be special because they're extremely rich. They didn't get that way because they're exceptionally skilled or smart. THEY INHERITED THEIR WEALTH!! Inheritance is not a life skill.

I contend that most of the people from the families I mentioned wouldn't be able to hold a job scrubbing toilets if they had not inherited what they have. That's why we need an inheritance tax with teeth...to avoid having a society of plutocrats pitting the haves against the have-nots.

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We give these modern-day billioinaire families way too much credit and respect. bulloney Jun 2015 #3

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