If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it’d pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won’t work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama’s 2011 budget deficit.
Inalienable Rights: Now With More STUFF!
Seriously, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Ok, so I think the Bill of Rights is a brilliant, succinct collection of truisms.
But granting me a “human right” which is based on taking other people’s labor? Not so much.
Gimme a house. Gimme healthcare. Gimme a phone.
Texas: We Might/Can/Will Secede
Even uttering this as a threat tells you all you need to know about the Great State of Texas.