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MikeWaters · 07-09-2008, 04:02 PM

Millionaire farmers getting rich off of farm subsidies.

I'm supposed to cry over them paying taxes?

Indy Coug · 07-09-2008, 04:03 PM

Unfortunately, most of the poor are poor because of the sum of their life choices. Taxing the bejeezus out of the rich isn't going to alter that.

MikeWaters · 07-09-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Unfortunately, most of the poor are poor because of the sum of their life choices. Taxing the bejeezus out of the rich isn't going to alter that.

Like me and my family?

il Padrino Ute · 07-09-2008, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Unfortunately, most of the poor are poor because of the sum of their life choices. Taxing the bejeezus out of the rich isn't going to alter that.

Amen, brother.

Indy Coug · 07-09-2008, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Like me and my family?

You and your family are poor? I guess we'd better define "poor". Poor aren't entry level workers who just graduated from college and whose profession has a salary range upper end of several hundred thousand dollars a year.

MikeWaters · 07-09-2008, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

You and your family are poor? I guess we'd better define "poor".

No, I'm not poor.

But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.

My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.

What were the wrong choices he made?

I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.

Indy Coug · 07-09-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

No, I'm not poor.

But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.

My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.

What were the wrong choices he made?

I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.

Well, I didn't say "all", so I'm not going to respond to every counterexample you want to conjure up.

My wife for a time was truly poor and it was because of some of the choices her dad made.

MikeWaters · 07-09-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Well, I didn't say "all", so I'm not going to respond to every counterexample you want to conjure up.

My wife for a time was truly poor and it was because of some of the choices her dad made.

I "conjured" up my own life experience?

Tex · 07-09-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

No, I'm not poor.

But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.

My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.

What were the wrong choices he made?

I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.

I don't know how old your father is, but depending on the time frame, 20k is a very respectable salary.

Indy Coug · 07-09-2008, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I "conjured" up my own life experience?

I was talking about any other additional examples you might want to trot out.

07-09-2008, 04:02 PM	#11
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Millionaire farmers getting rich off of farm subsidies. I'm supposed to cry over them paying taxes?

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Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Unfortunately, most of the poor are poor because of the sum of their life choices. Taxing the bejeezus out of the rich isn't going to alter that.