Why on earth do you want to take the Walton family wealth away? Has it not been earned? Didn't Sam spend his life building it? If he'd been your grandfather would you give it all away? (of course you'd have to argue with the other maybe 20-30 children and grandchildren who currently share in that wealth).
Who do you think deserves what the Waltons spent lifetimes building more than the Waltons who have undoubtedly already given billions away while employing millions and millions of others over the last 60 years?
Do you have some 'basement level' of wealth that you would allow families to retain? Or do you demand that ALL wealth from every generation somehow pass to the State upon that generation's death, for use as the State sees fit?
If a father dies first, does his wife get to keep the family wealth until her death, or does she have to relinguish 50% to the tax man at the funeral of her husband? And if any one of us is foolish enough to still be living in our parent's basement when they die, are we immediately out on the street as the State soaks-up all their assets?
Do you think such a world somehow more 'just'??? What is just about anyone other than the individual who earned a dollar being given that dollar?
Taken away by whom and for what purpose? This sort of change makes a thief, not someone to be exalted. How long will white saviors treat black people like pets before a better argument than stealing someone else's wealth is made. We're long past the 1940s, with black billionaires to show for it.
You're indistinguishable from the Walton's in your example. Give up your wealth. You're just as guilty of Jim Crow being in your favor, but obviously on a lesser scale. Or, perhaps not obviously. We're going to need to see some receipts.
Haha I'm "indistinguishable" from a billionaire, except for the fact they have a billion dollars whereas I have 150k in student debt. Get real, man. If I had wealth, you might have a point. But I don't.
A law degree from Yale, and you aren't able to pay back your student loans? Briahna Joy Gray once remarked to Dr. Loury, also bemoaning her student debt (paraphrasing), "I have a law degree from Harvard, what am I supposed to do with it?"
What kind of racket are those Ivy League law schools running?
[By the way, folks, Briahna is superb on Rising. She and Robby Soave make a great team. They sometimes have serious disagreements and go at each other hard, but there is no carryover into the next segment/topic. Great chemistry. They are better than their much-heralded predecessors.]
I do have a point. Why only the Walton's? Why not you? Why not me? Why not every person who isn't black? Why not go to year zero and redistribute all the wealth white folks have accumulated in the US thus far to black folks? I don't care how poor or downtrodden some of the white folks prove to be or how rich and affluent many of the black folks are. White guilt after all. You're a Charlatan and a hypocrite. There is no Shangri-la. Give it up.
I saw my first Shakespeare performance at the Walton Art’s center in Fayetteville Arkansas. If we define this position as “the right” with letting the Waltons keep their money and minding our own business, and we define my experience as a seminal moment in the life of a developing artist, and you want to take away that wealth, then I’m left asking the question, why does the left not care about the humanities? I saw a professor pose this question about “the right” this week, but I’ve seen the Walton’s investment in the arts first hand, it’s a social capital, only seizure required is the cost of a ticket to Othello, and you want to take this away? This isn’t the “right” by the way, I don’t know or care how the Waltons vote.
Be the change you want to see. Start writing those checks, Nathan.
The change I want to see is for the Walton family's wealth to be taken away. How can I be that change?
Why on earth do you want to take the Walton family wealth away? Has it not been earned? Didn't Sam spend his life building it? If he'd been your grandfather would you give it all away? (of course you'd have to argue with the other maybe 20-30 children and grandchildren who currently share in that wealth).
Who do you think deserves what the Waltons spent lifetimes building more than the Waltons who have undoubtedly already given billions away while employing millions and millions of others over the last 60 years?
Do you have some 'basement level' of wealth that you would allow families to retain? Or do you demand that ALL wealth from every generation somehow pass to the State upon that generation's death, for use as the State sees fit?
If a father dies first, does his wife get to keep the family wealth until her death, or does she have to relinguish 50% to the tax man at the funeral of her husband? And if any one of us is foolish enough to still be living in our parent's basement when they die, are we immediately out on the street as the State soaks-up all their assets?
Do you think such a world somehow more 'just'??? What is just about anyone other than the individual who earned a dollar being given that dollar?
Taken away by whom and for what purpose? This sort of change makes a thief, not someone to be exalted. How long will white saviors treat black people like pets before a better argument than stealing someone else's wealth is made. We're long past the 1940s, with black billionaires to show for it.
~60% of Black Americans are firmly in the Middle Class.
And given to whom, ffs? And by what means? Nonsense.
You're indistinguishable from the Walton's in your example. Give up your wealth. You're just as guilty of Jim Crow being in your favor, but obviously on a lesser scale. Or, perhaps not obviously. We're going to need to see some receipts.
Haha I'm "indistinguishable" from a billionaire, except for the fact they have a billion dollars whereas I have 150k in student debt. Get real, man. If I had wealth, you might have a point. But I don't.
A law degree from Yale, and you aren't able to pay back your student loans? Briahna Joy Gray once remarked to Dr. Loury, also bemoaning her student debt (paraphrasing), "I have a law degree from Harvard, what am I supposed to do with it?"
What kind of racket are those Ivy League law schools running?
[By the way, folks, Briahna is superb on Rising. She and Robby Soave make a great team. They sometimes have serious disagreements and go at each other hard, but there is no carryover into the next segment/topic. Great chemistry. They are better than their much-heralded predecessors.]
I do have a point. Why only the Walton's? Why not you? Why not me? Why not every person who isn't black? Why not go to year zero and redistribute all the wealth white folks have accumulated in the US thus far to black folks? I don't care how poor or downtrodden some of the white folks prove to be or how rich and affluent many of the black folks are. White guilt after all. You're a Charlatan and a hypocrite. There is no Shangri-la. Give it up.
I saw my first Shakespeare performance at the Walton Art’s center in Fayetteville Arkansas. If we define this position as “the right” with letting the Waltons keep their money and minding our own business, and we define my experience as a seminal moment in the life of a developing artist, and you want to take away that wealth, then I’m left asking the question, why does the left not care about the humanities? I saw a professor pose this question about “the right” this week, but I’ve seen the Walton’s investment in the arts first hand, it’s a social capital, only seizure required is the cost of a ticket to Othello, and you want to take this away? This isn’t the “right” by the way, I don’t know or care how the Waltons vote.