Tuesday, September 20, 2005
From God to Money
Well, since most of my recent posts...ok all my posts are usually related to some spiritual subject matter, I thought I would shake things up and bring up something near and dear to my heart and that is...Mercedes Benz. "What", I hear you exclaim," could Mercedes have to do with you? You've never owned a Benz!!!" And to that I reply...true. HOWEVER, I work for a call centre that is employed by mercedes benz and thus talk to many owners of them daily. Now mind you these are rich people (who are snobby) and English people (who are snobby) which adds up to Mercedes English people (butt-holes). But the shortcomings of these individuals as human beings is of secondary importance. What I want to discuss is this:
Many of the people I talk to own an SL Mercedes which is between a 50 to 70 thousand pound car (that is pounds stirling not pounds as in big bottoms). They usually own more than one and I actually had a lady complain to me today because her husband was dismayed by the disproportionately large amounts of special SLs (80-90 thousand pounds) he saw and was thinking of changing for a MORE ELITE car! My question is this: Should these people be taxed extremely hard because of their obvious amount of disposable income or is it fair that they are able to afford 2-3 mercedes and others can't pay rent.
Basically, just want to see who is more of a socialist (Zhubin, Bobak, Stalin) and who is more of a capitalist (Paige, Joe, Jesus). What do you think?
Many of the people I talk to own an SL Mercedes which is between a 50 to 70 thousand pound car (that is pounds stirling not pounds as in big bottoms). They usually own more than one and I actually had a lady complain to me today because her husband was dismayed by the disproportionately large amounts of special SLs (80-90 thousand pounds) he saw and was thinking of changing for a MORE ELITE car! My question is this: Should these people be taxed extremely hard because of their obvious amount of disposable income or is it fair that they are able to afford 2-3 mercedes and others can't pay rent.
Basically, just want to see who is more of a socialist (Zhubin, Bobak, Stalin) and who is more of a capitalist (Paige, Joe, Jesus). What do you think?
# posted by Christopher @ 10:23 PM 
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I hope they don't start taxing folks because of number of and type of vehicles. I drive a Cadillac, but that doesn't make me rich. Godbw/ya.
I like that, in your mind, the clear opposite of Stalin is somehow Jesus.
Also, unless my acronym-deciphering skillz are wrong, I think your friend Tank wants God to "break wind on you." Odd.
Per your post, the subject of taxes is where I have to disappoint my brethen at the (apparently) yacht club.
There was an episode of The West Wing where Will had to work with a bunch of speechwriting interns to develop a new tax plan. He makes this excellent presentation about creating a seperate bracket of what he calls the "uber-rich," and how their enormous incomes should be, accordingly, taxed enormously.
I remember thinking, "Wow, what a great idea. I'm impressed that such a show would broach this topic." Then, at the end, one of the Lauren's (or whatever name all the interns had in common) has a "tonight, on a very special West Wing" moment, and we find out the episode's whole point was that Will had forgotten about "what really matters."
Barf.
People with a lot of resources, regardless of whether they "earned" them or not, have an obligation to give back. The political problem, in my mind, is really one of extremes: Socialism forces people to give back, and Capitalism encourages them not to. Somewhere in the middle, there's got to be something that works.
I hold, though, that wealthy British butt-holes should donate their used SL Mercedes to American elementary school teachers. You know, for the kids.
Also, unless my acronym-deciphering skillz are wrong, I think your friend Tank wants God to "break wind on you." Odd.
Per your post, the subject of taxes is where I have to disappoint my brethen at the (apparently) yacht club.
There was an episode of The West Wing where Will had to work with a bunch of speechwriting interns to develop a new tax plan. He makes this excellent presentation about creating a seperate bracket of what he calls the "uber-rich," and how their enormous incomes should be, accordingly, taxed enormously.
I remember thinking, "Wow, what a great idea. I'm impressed that such a show would broach this topic." Then, at the end, one of the Lauren's (or whatever name all the interns had in common) has a "tonight, on a very special West Wing" moment, and we find out the episode's whole point was that Will had forgotten about "what really matters."
Barf.
People with a lot of resources, regardless of whether they "earned" them or not, have an obligation to give back. The political problem, in my mind, is really one of extremes: Socialism forces people to give back, and Capitalism encourages them not to. Somewhere in the middle, there's got to be something that works.
I hold, though, that wealthy British butt-holes should donate their used SL Mercedes to American elementary school teachers. You know, for the kids.
Wait, what? Jesus wasn't a capitalist...he preached that we should throw away all our wordly possessions.
~Brian
~Brian
# posted by 
: 12:24 AM
: 12:24 AM
Jesus? Jesus "easier for a camel to get through a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven" Christ?
Jesus is firmly in my tent when I say the incredibly rich should be incredibly taxed. Although not just for taxing's sake, obviously. But if we need money, their wallets open first and widest.
Also, Joe, I wouldn't say socialism forces people to give back - presumably in a socialist society there wouldn't really be money at all.
Jesus is firmly in my tent when I say the incredibly rich should be incredibly taxed. Although not just for taxing's sake, obviously. But if we need money, their wallets open first and widest.
Also, Joe, I wouldn't say socialism forces people to give back - presumably in a socialist society there wouldn't really be money at all.
joe said:
I hold, though, that wealthy British butt-holes should donate their used SL Mercedes to American elementary school teachers. You know, for the kids.
or, ya know, american high school english teachers. you know, so they can have armor when they drive off campus. cause they teach gang bangers.
I hold, though, that wealthy British butt-holes should donate their used SL Mercedes to American elementary school teachers. You know, for the kids.
or, ya know, american high school english teachers. you know, so they can have armor when they drive off campus. cause they teach gang bangers.
# posted by : 3:06 PM
: 3:06 PM
Hey, my emails to you keep coming back with a "could not be delivered after four hours" message. Did you die?
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