That Bush's economic policies are simply making the rich richer and everyone else... the bottom 99% of American house holds poorer... Can anyone help me with some facts from Bush's tax plan... and maybe give some stats/names of the richest families in the US? and the origins of their wealth. It's complete bullshit that the wealthy arent being forced to pay the same taxes as everyone else... I saw a story somewhere recently about a group of billionaires who disagree with W's plan...

I have a secret crazy conspiracy theory that America is being controlled by a few wealthy families ^_^ we are all slaves to the elite. Throw those tax dollars into the bucket boys! Let's fund a war to enslave another nation!

I don't have a problem with people who make well for themselves, thats not what I am talking about so don't even go in that direction :\ this is not about the people pulling in even 1,000,000 a year... this is about families who havent worked for generations because their money works for them.

Originally posted by Executor
some stats/names of the richest families in the US?


google : forbes 400

ahh thanks for the location :D now i can formulate my theory..

"this is about families who havent worked for generations because their money works for them."

Oh, like the Kennedys.

Sic him Goofy.

like the kennedy's and the Bass's and the.... Bushes (which by happenstance tend to hang around pussies)

I have a secret crazy conspiracy theory that America is being controlled by a few wealthy families

Crazy conspiracy theory? I thought it was a well known fact.

Yeah. Pretty much the same theory that had the Jews controling Germany in the '30s.

Here's a snippet:

The bill is heavily tilted toward the upper end of the income scale, with households that make over $1 million a year receiving an average tax cut or $93,500 in 2003, while households in the middle of the income spectrum receive an average tax cut of $217. Some 36 percent of households will receive no tax cut at all; 53 percent will receive $100 or less.

from here, where there's LOTS of info on this type of thing
http://www.cbpp.org/index.html

Another snippet from an article entitled,
Divide: The Wealth Gap Challenges American Ideals

In the gilded era of the 1920s, the last time the richest 1% of Americans owned over 40% of the wealth, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, "We can have democracy in this country or great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Roosevelt

http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep01/divide80901.html

If you don't like it, become an evil billionare yourself(if you can). Abandon ALL morals, kill anyone for money if you are positive you can get away with it. Commit tonnes of fraud if you can get away with it. Start a company that hides toxic chemicals in sick childrens playgrounds, but make sure you have no criminal liability. Find a way to exploit organized crime. These are the routes to power, find a plan that can make you money that others are unwilling to do. And if you need pratice getting your killer instict, just kill some hookers. Read Machieaveli for some starter tips.

Or you could be a loser and buy a lottery ticket every week hoping you win, and maybe buying some no dividend, no voting, loser stocks just to round things out, but be sure to buy the stocks that the big boys want to sell you.

BTW, I'm no fan of evil psychopathic killers, I just envy their big yachts, private islands, and political offices.