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That's just Liberal 101 do as we say.

Reality says

You are too dumb to realize that the taxi oligopoly (and price fixing) is the result of city taxi commission regulations.

No, I'm well aware that oligopolies have used government power to ensure their stability. You are too dumb to realize that nothing I said implies this isn't so.

You are also too dumb to realize that oligopolies and monopolies will always form in the absence of anti-trust laws. For example, De Beers. The fool most responsible for monopolies and oligopolies destroying the free market is Ronald Reagan, who effectively ended anti-trust enforcement. You want a free market? Then never vote Republican.

zzyzzx says

Spicoli was no liberal. Using him as a liberal icon illustrates your deep misunderstanding of what liberalism is.

That said, when an entertainer or a professional athlete makes millions of dollars, he isn't ass fucking your family over. You choose whether or not to buy that movie ticket or that baseball game ticket. No one is forcing you to buy it or coercing you in any way. You can easily choose not to participate. One can make the point that Americans value entertainment way more than they should, but that's a value judgement.

What's important is that when that CEO takes in tens of millions of dollars for producing little to no wealth, he is ass fucking your family. He's playing a zero-sum game that you cannot choose not to participate in. His ludicrous income isn't coming from millions of dollars of entertainment value he's created; it's coming directly from the wealth you, your spouse, and your children create in their jobs. That's a big mother-fucking difference.

No CEO is generating tens of millions of dollars a year. He's just siphoning tens of millions of dollars of wealth produced by thousand to tens of thousands of hard-working people. So yes, being pissed off at that is justified. When Britney Spears licks a hammer in her underwear, the money she makes doesn't come out of my pocket against my will. When a CEO lowers the salaries of thousands of employees so he can buy a massive yacht with the wealth those employees produced, that's fucking greed. When hard-working, honest American families lose their breadwinner's job because Goldman Sachs played zero-sum games that wretched the economy, that's fucking greed.

Just ask yourself...how many stockbrokers have farmhouses in Vermont...after 20 years of "Bern Socialism"

Ironman says

bob2356 says

Funny...

...how, once again, you can't defend the un-defendable with Bernie, so you just pound away at the keyboard with lines of bullshit.... What happened, you forgot to include fucking farm animals again in your reply, maybe you need to go back to the Dan School of Insults to "bone up"!

I take it that you are in favor of more progressive taxation then.

YesYNot says

A transcript would be a help. It seemed to be an off hand comment in relation to a question about minimum wage for servers who also get tips

No one has any idea what the comment was or in response to what. You only have what bloomberg says it was.

John Bailo says

Just ask yourself...how many stockbrokers have farmhouses in Vermont...after 20 years of "Bern Socialism"

This makes less sense than an ironman comment and that's a very very low bar.