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28/01/2019 00:33:41
 
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Economics
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01665625
Message ID:
01665747
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47
>>>>>The endpoint of all those arguments was the oppression of the the "weak" by the "powerful" was foreordained and inevitable.
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>>>Where's that coming from.
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>>We really don't have to answer that question.
>>However we do have to say that it's unconscionable that a retired teacher who has who has worked all her life has to choose between rent and medicine while a Walmart heir whose only accomplishment was being born tools around in private jets.
>
>I guess Sam Walton was also born rich. He made the money gave millions to charity and millions to his kids. I don't begrudge him 1¢. BTW, the inheritance tax rate in 1992 was 55% of everything over $6 million. So, didn't the US government get 55%?
>

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static

Check the three names with Walton in them. Combined net worth over $120 billion.
It's convenient to invoke Sam's name, but what exactly did those 3 do that earned them $120 billion?
That's a handout to end all handouts.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.
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