Rand Paul Dismisses Concerns About Income Inequality, Says Some People Just ‘Work Harder’

[Llcoolbay]

Try to give the Republicans a fair a chance, but then they speak

 

[Pesci]

maybe if people just worked harder, their dad could be a doctor too

 

[Fenian]

Yep just forget the fact that rich fukks get a massive head start in life.

 

[JahFocus CS]

Why aren't the people who work 3-4 jobs the richest people then? Oh, you have to produce something? What do the owners of capital produce? All they do is command labor...

So the richest people just command the labor of the most people, and keep the profits produced by the labor of those people (exploitation).

Rand just undercut the whole facade of capitalism

 

[Tate]

Why aren't the people who work 3-4 jobs the richest people then? Oh, you have to produce something? What do the owners of capital produce? All they do is command labor...

So the richest people just command the labor of the most people, and keep the profits produced by the labor of those people (exploitation).

Rand just undercut the whole facade of capitalism

Bu bu but property rights....

 

[Serious]

absolutely disgusting

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

absolutely disgusting

Split the vote

 

[Serious]

Split the vote

not in this lifetime...

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Work harder? Really? That's all, huh?

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[AAKing23]

Work harder? Really? That's all, huh?

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[tru_m.a.c]

I'm still not off
he remains the shiniest piece of shyt running IMO




unless Gary Johnson runs again.

u voted for gary johnson?

yessir.

The same Gary Johnson with neocons in his inner circle?

 

[GunRanger]

He is right in the sense that a 3% bump in income for families, has nothing to do with the bump higher income earners get. They're still getting more, and focusing on that particular aspect is disingenuous. Fighting income inequality through taxes is asinine

 

[CHL]

The same Gary Johnson with neocons in his inner circle?

Of course

 

[duckbutta]

Build your entire country off the backs of forced labor from slaves and immigrants, and then tell the descendants of said slaves and immigrants that they don't work hard enough without acknowledging that your own wealth and status is directly tied to the forced labor of their ancestors librehtarians

 

[AJaRuleStan]

I think he was too PC if you ask me. He should of flat out said that ppl are not equal in skills or genetic potential, therefore the results wont be either, so the best we can ever hope to achieve is equal of opportunity. Disparities are not the exception, they're the rule of human nature.

Also, I really enjoy how that article only cites one attribute from his tax cut so they can push their narrative, and the data they cite for the growing income equality is just a abstract screenshot of income brackets at a giving time frame, not studies of human beings who are moving from one bracket to another over time which is important for the long run.

For example, did you know that more than half the people who were in the top 1 percent in 1996 were no longer there in 2005. Of course libs will go on about their "top one percent" of income earners who are supposedly getting an ever-increasing share of the countries income which is true if you are talking about income brackets. But It is totally untrue if you are talking about actual people. Yeah, this might shock ppl, but there is this thing called Economic mobility.