The Glade 4.0

...because the Marxist paradigm was better?

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
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isn't the basic premise of that flawed because it assumes that anyone who has money must have earned it? (as opposed to obtained it through theft, coercion, entitlements, luck, etc.)

The bailouts were from future-taxpayers to bankrupt corporations. Who pays most of the taxes in your country?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Over 50% of our tax dollars are funded by the top 10% of wealth-holders.

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That's really only true if you count corporate taxes as applying to the shareholders instead of the consumers (who bear the majority of the cost) and employees (who shoulder more of it than the shareholders). Corporate taxes are just a hidden consumption tax on anyone who buys the corporation's products/services.

Regardless, lots of taxes are not generally paid by criminals.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well its been reported that AIG has completed its repayment plan.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Huh. I never looked into how the company I work for acquired AIG Canada. Seems AIG owed us $200 million dollars, and when they couldn't pay up, just gave us their Canadian division as payment.

Edit: No, evidently, we paid $375 million for AIG Life of Canada, but then AIG's parent company also paid us back the $200 million they owed us.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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