Nick Hanauer: 'Radical Inequality is Going to Destroy' Economy

Two different plans from the Democrats and Republicans are at work for the extension of the payroll tax cut. Nick Hanauer, author of "The Gardens of Democracy" says that an ordinary middle class consumer is in fact far more of a job creator than the rich will ever be. He joins the show to explain.

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[alphacause]

If this mantra that conservatives keep spewing was true, about how cutting taxes for the rich will create a bonanza of jobs, then it would be fairly EASY to prove. All you have to do is show very high employment rates during times in global/U.S. history, when tax rates were at their lowest, and abysmal unemployment when tax rates were at their highest. The fact that conservatives can't come up with this evidence speaks volumes!

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

@BrotherAlpha I already defended my argument, you ignorantly dismissed it because, in your mind, stealing isn't stealing if you call it something else and let people use a service that was paid for with the money that was stolen. I'm sorry if the education you got from the service that the government provided to you makes you too naive to understand that. End of conversation.

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

@BrotherAlpha I was going to let you have the last word, but since you said the stupidest thing in the world I couldn't help but laugh at you.

You think that walking on the sidewalk without paying taxes is stealing, but taking money from someone without their consent isn't?

HA HA HA HA, Yeah, I'M the Crazy one.

Go clean yourself off, You just got FAIL all over yourself.

[BrotherAlpha]

@mesmokumpeacepipe

Translation: "I get to redefine words to mean what I want them to me."

Telling someone to pay their share of the bill isn't stealing. In fact, taking a service and refusing to pay is stealing.

I'm sorry you are too fucking stupid to understand that.

Actually, I'm not. Laughing at stupid Libertarians brings me joy.

[BrotherAlpha]

@mesmokumpeacepipe "..."

Translation: "Mesmokumpeacepipe can't defend their argument, so they are going to whine about being insulted and run away."

By the way, I knew I wasn't going to convince you I was right as soon as you talked about taxes as theft. Libertarians who do that are far too stupid to learn.

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

@BrotherAlpha LOL how often do you agree with someone that calls you stupid? Hey dumbass, I'm right and you're wrong. Do you agree with me now? No? didn't think so. That's not "style" that's being immature and showing an inability to have an adult conversation, and since you are incapable of doing so, you are obviously not worth talking to, Grow the fuck up.

[BrotherAlpha]

@mesmokumpeacepipe "Are you one of those people that isn't able to have a conversation with someone without resorting to childish namecalling?"

If you act like a moron, I'm going to call you a moron. Whinging about it is a Style over Substance fallacy.

"Anyway, using your logic..."

It would be like offering a service, charging for it, then making people pay, which is what countless business do.

It's not stealing to make someone pay for a service they use.

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

@BrotherAlpha Are you one of those people that isn't able to have a conversation with someone without resorting to childish namecalling?

Anyway, using your logic I would be justified in taking a 50$ bill from someone as long as I left them a can of soda and they took a drink from it.

Letting someone use/have something is not consenting to you stealing from them.

[BrotherAlpha]

@mesmokumpeacepipe It's not without their consent, you moron. The second you take advantage of government services, you consent to paying for them with taxes. If you don't like paying taxes, move somewhere where there are none.

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

@fionamcampbell by that logic If I steal 100$ from someone I can justify it by buying them a sandwich or a Tee shirt.