Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Explain Wealth Redistribution

Clip from Penn and Teller: Bullshit, season 7, episode 7. This clip is property of Showtime.
Penn Jillette is one of the greatest people in our nation's history, and certainly one of the most kindhearted and patriotic, in the truest sense of the word.

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[ydms14]

Dammit Teller you have to speak up for yourself!

[kff]

Christ, Id like to see Tree Trunks clatter their heads together.

[kff]

I think everyone is missing the point here.

Penn is clearly having a go at rich people. Right?

[yogzula]

they left out the part of the video where millions of chinese children made the pie for teller at no expense to him. And also exaggerated the part where penn was only asking for a small fraction of the pie, not the entire thing. You see, in the real world teller would still have so much pie he w have to start using it as toilet paper and giving it to his friends if he wanted to get rid of it because there would be too much to eat on his own.

[SensoryOssuary]

Cutting taxes for the rich is an invisible tax on the poor...

[The1bassfreak]

I agree with that if you work your whole life and build up wealth you should be able to keep it. I think most every american believes the same. The problem is that while most americans are paying upwards of 40% of their income to taxes the elite are paing less than 20%. Also why is it since 1980 the wealthy's income went up 275% while the average joe's income in the sme time went up 8% . Seems to me that class warfare started in 1980 and finally the rest of america starting to catch on.

[23lFrench]

@swat105 Doesn't one own the worth of what one makes? You don't need a TV, you only want a TV, you need to distinguish between a want and a need. Somebody needing food to survive is a need and something for entertainment purposes is just a want. For theft to exist, there must be property and that doesn't actually exist man.

[PassTheMarmalade1957]

@swat105 Yeah, I know. That's why I'm not ENTIRELY sure about the idea of wealth distribution. If you spend a lifetime working and building up your own fortune, you've earned it. It's the aristocratic arseholes who claim that they deserve to keep their inherited wealth because they have 'traditions to keep alive' that just pisses me off. Also, I don't know if it's different in America, but here in England, a high class businessman tends to pay a lower percentage of tax than their secretary.

[swat105]

@23lFrench its not justified to take what one owns and say that another needs it more so to bad they get it. i need a new TV but that doesn't justify me taking it from someone who has 5 tvs laying around its still would be considered theft

[swat105]

@PassTheMarmalade1957 @PassTheMarmalade1957 They were trying to explain this in just about a minute so of course its simplified but what there trying to say is its wrong to take what someone owns and give it to others. That's like saying the government should be allowed to take 10% of your home and let some homeless guy take it just because he doesn't have a home its your property and you should do what you want with it and the government shouldn't