A MESSAGE TO THE RICH

[~Sophia~]

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So let me now send a personal message to The Rich in America…

As an American and a patriot, I implore you – I go to my knees and beg you – LEAVE NOW.

Leave. Just go away. Retire to the Cayman Islands or Bermuda or wherever, but do it now, please, while you still have some love for this country. Close your companies, fire your employees, shutter your factories and offices, sell your property, and take all of that somewhere else… better yet: somewhere scenic but poverty-stricken. Somewhere that could use some wealth creation. Somewhere that people simply are grateful to have a job in the first place. Somewhere where you will be appreciated.

You are not welcome in America any more. Take your wealth and prosperity and inventiveness and hard work and vision and insight and bold risk-taking and joy in seeing growth and wealth creation and just go away – right now, before it’s too late. Because if you stay, Joel Berg and Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd will continue to come after you for more and more and more and they will not ever stop – not ever – until you are forced to flee. And when that day comes, you will go with not with fond remembrances and a desire to return home, but rather a black heart and hard and bitter memories.

So on behalf of those few of us who still believe in the Land of Opportunity, I beg you and implore you, in the name of our common patriot ancestors who worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could become so spoiled and ungrateful: take your 60% of the total income taxes and just go away.

Because if you do, then there will no longer be an Enemy for the Left to stick it to. Then, perhaps, the half of the country that pays no income tax might have to put some skin in the game. Then, perhaps, with most of the wealth generation gone we will turn to our community organizers to provide the wealth creation, and the tax dollars, and the innovation. When you have gone the President of the United States, supported by an army of little acorns like Joel Berg, will have to start calling for the rest of us to be taxed more to address the inequality gap.

That’s what I want.

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Edited April 7, 2009 by ~Sophia~

[JASKN]

I realize that he isn't actually condoning a mass departure of the rich and is just demonstrating a point, but if I had the choice, I don't think I could ever do what he is asking. I couldn't leave my friends and family unless my immediate life was threatened. In fact, I get anxious just at the thought of leaving.

[Space Patroller]

I realize that he isn't actually condoning a mass departure of the rich and is just demonstrating a point, but if I had the choice, I don't think I could ever do what he is asking. I couldn't leave my friends and family unless my immediate life was threatened. In fact, I get anxious just at the thought of leaving.

The problem here is twofold.

1. The Well-to-do tend to support this kind of crap. Rand used to tolk about the "socialistic rich"

2. Google up "Brain Drain". Income taxes are not aimed at the persons of accumulated wealth (too many of them are liberal) It is aimed at the high earner/high achiever. This happened in England in the early and middle 1960's and the US benefitted handsomely Well there's a pack of hungry Tigers elsewhere who will be happy to accept our unwanted wealth-generators. "Communist" China is becoming the biggest stealth switcheroo of the century. learning the lessons we wrote and are forgetting at lightspeed in the biggest case of national Alzheimer's since 4th and 5th century Rome. Zhaing Galt, anyone?

[Jake_Ellison]

Zhaing Galt, anyone?

No. China is an awful tyranny I wouldn't want to live in, not even if it had more economic freedom than the US. (but of course it doesn't have, in China all businessmen are at the mercy of the Communist elites. There is no real freedom, not even as much as there is here)

[Space Patroller]

No. China is an awful tyranny I wouldn't want to live in, not even if it had more economic freedom than the US. (but of course it doesn't have, in China all businessmen are at the mercy of the Communist elites.

Been watching CONgress over the past few months? That's becomming a difference of degree, not of kind

There is no real freedom, not even as much as there is here)

There is one big difference. They have yet to discover it and are not nearly as oppressive as they were 30 years ago, when I was alive and looking at this sort of thing. What's our excusez; Alzheimer's?

[AllMenAreIslands]

Been watching CONgress over the past few months? That's becomming a difference of degree, not of kind

There is one big difference. They have yet to discover it and are not nearly as oppressive as they were 30 years ago, when I was alive and looking at this sort of thing. What's our excusez; Alzheimer's?

You can't forget something that you never knew in the first place. America was the most free country there has yet been, but it wasn't the most free possible. The seeds of its current downhill course were planted at the beginning and have always been there. However, because it is the best country so far, the idea is embedded that whatever it does is right. If America employs coercion that somehow means it will achieve results, even though every other previous "great nation" which rose to prosperity yet is no longer a super-power, fell due to the use of coercion.

[Space Patroller]

You can't forget something that you never knew in the first place. America was the most free country there has yet been, but it wasn't the most free possible. The seeds of its current downhill course were planted at the beginning and have always been there. However, because it is the best country so far, the idea is embedded that whatever it does is right. If America employs coercion that somehow means it will achieve results, even though every other previous "great nation" which rose to prosperity yet is no longer a super-power, fell due to the use of coercion.

Those "seeds" were aberrations, not the norm. If you look at our founding documents, "they speak of the inaliable right to life, liberty and the puruit of happiness" and the mission "to ensure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity" point to something written into our identity as a nation whereas the previous nations had been founded on ethnic, cultural or geographical terms or some admixture thereof. our principle of being was the ultimate truths of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason. That's what I mean by the lessons that we wrote. So we know what is explicitly stated. We were put on the right track with knowledge, intent and forethought. Now it is true that nature sides with the hidden flaw so there's always that. But what we're finding is that we are becoming out of phase with ourselves. This cannot be by accident and therefore must be deliberate, like 3-1/2 generations of those who know better telling us we are a democracy. The fact that the first act of the destruction of our economic system was called "the "NEW deal" and so forth. There is no doubt that in 1955 we knew what we were. Had you lived when I did you would know that. We were the "Shining City on a Hill". That was the leitmotif of the future civilizations presented in the "space cadet" shows of the 1950's and especially Space Patrol, in which it was made close to explicitly clear with "The United Planets of the Solar System". The TV version of Flash Gordon, made in Germany and France, set in the 32nd century spoke of "The United States of Earth". We were the envy of the world and the model for it's future.

All countries think that what they do is right by their own standards and culture. Do you think that the Arabs think that Sheria Law is evil? So that dones'n make us unique

[AllMenAreIslands]

Those "seeds" were aberrations, not the norm. ...

Those seeds WERE the norm for all previous forms of government. That's why slavery and taxation were built in from the get-go. Such behavior should have been left behind. Clearly it is not enough to spout a lot of freedom-loving rhetoric if the foundation includes the same old same old (i.e. the right to employ coercion AT ALL.)

As for the Sheria Law - I'm sure there are people who think it is evil.