So does anyone recall at what point of income inequality, revolution is most likely to begin? It seems to me there is a certain tipping point - are we near?

Income Inequality Grows
"In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation's adjusted gross income for two decades, and possibly the highest since 1929," according to the Wall Street Journal.

"Meanwhile, the average tax rate of the wealthiest 1% fell to its lowest level in at least 18 years. The group's share of the tax burden has risen, though not as quickly as its share of income."

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

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Is that your wet dream? Because a Revolution based on Income is just as stupid as having a Revolution over the jailing of the Blind Sheik.

It's funny.. you choose to that snippet knowing most people won't read it, hell you probably didn't even read it.. so I'll include one of my own..

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So with the increase in income (which can come from almost anything.. deaths, the Market, Saving, or Marriage).. 1% of the population is paying 40% of the taxes.

Imagine that, 1% picking up 40% taxes, yet you want to have a Revolution? So the other 99% can pick up the other 40%?

Yes.. let's tax the folks who invest in companies and start up companies.. let's take more and more money out of their hands so economy slows down even further./SARCASM

Thank god, you don't run the economy. We'd be in food lines again, just like it was during the Great Depression because the Wealthy were targeted with high taxes and they couldn't invest because Uncle Sam decided to steal it.

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[quote=Jojo;138840]So does anyone recall at what point of income inequality, revolution is most likely to begin? It seems to me there is a certain tipping point - are we near?


*** It isn't bad enough that liberals do everything in their power to align themselves with our enemies and with their economies, but now they want to create riots or revolutions by staging class warfare. Just what we need Jojo, something that might upset America's #1 economy rating in the world. I don't know you Jojo, but my guess is that you're employed as a social worker on special assignment to see that illegal aliens get all the benefits we real Americans get...and more. Am I close?

Apparently the neocons slept through history class. Remember the French Revolution? The Russian Revolution? What fueled them was a small group of have-lots nobility, apparently clueless, or indifferent, to the suffering of the many desperately poor.

While I don't believe we're at that point of desperation - yet - I see that the neocons are as indifferent to the plight of the poor as the French and Russian nobility were. The describe the questioning of the gap between rich and poor as "class warfare," but are silent about the "class warfare" on the lower and middle classes, who are having a hard time trying to make ends meet, what with high gas prices and higher food prices. Many don't even have a few luxuries to give up to make ends meet.

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*** The irony to your nonsense is that its the conservatives who actually set plans that enable the unemployed and the welfare leeches to get a job, to feel better about themselves and their lot in life, and to actually have a chance to succeed in life. And its the corporations and businesses (capitalism) that actually hire these people to become productive citizens. Remember how 'everyone' in the glorious eighties felt good about themselves, and were enriched by life itself because Ronald Reagan enabled them to pick each up by their own bootstraps. Well Tojo, you had 40 some years of a welfare state created by FDR that enabled welfare recipients to glorify in cradle to grave benefits, without the slightest respect of those individuals and of what would be their best interest in life. Is this what Rev Wright meant when he said the chickens are coming home to roost...that the poor and welfare people would rise in revolt against the welfare state that FDR chastened them into? If that's the case, then I'll guarantee you all those welfare revolutionaries will become voting Republicans.

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Yep, those were the days. [/sarcasm]

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And under Reagan inflation dropped from the double digits of the 1970s to single digits and continued to drop afterward until the environmentalist nutjobs pushed the federal government into wasting corn on biofuels.

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"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

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"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Prove the allegations about the environmentalists or it didn't happen.

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