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-Election 2012
Hillary Clinton: Rich People Don't Contribute to Growth in Their Countries
2012-09-25
SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: One of the issues I have been preaching about around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites in every country. It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. There are rich people everywhere, and yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries.

They don't contribute by, say, investing in companies that create new products and jobs? They don't contribute by, say, paying taxes on their earnings and then paying taxes on them again when they die? They don't contribute if they're not quiet little slaves of the state? Is that what the American secretary of state is saying?

It's a fact around the world that Hillary Clinton has always been far more radical than she lets on. She looks less radical in the current administration, only because Barack Obama, Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett and others in the group look more obviously radical than she does. But she's every inch the socialist that they are. She's just better at hiding it.
Great. Let's take away all your wealth then lady since you don't contribute.
Elites are always allowed to volunteer to go first...
Posted by:DarthVader

#16  "There are rich people everywhere, and yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries."

That must be because rich people bury all their money in their gardens.
Posted by: European Conservative   2012-09-25 22:26  

#15  She knows better.
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-09-25 21:57  

#14  You earned that job, Barbara. That's why they hired you!
Posted by: Perfesser   2012-09-25 21:46  

#13  Poor people never gave me a job. Rich people have.

QED.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-09-25 21:22  

#12  Rich people may be all mean and evil and nasty (except when they are making political donations to the correct party), but if you look at countries composed entirely of poor people, they don't seem to be doing to well.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-09-25 21:15  

#11  LE, to the Donks the jihadists, Taliban, Cartels, etc aren't the real enemy. It's the Trunks and those knuckle dragging, bible thumping, gun huggers in fly over country.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-09-25 21:07  

#10  Oh, d**n--the lesser of Dem evils just goes off the rails. On the otherhand, if she means rich kings and sheikhs not improving the lives of their Palestinian wives' people instead of relying on US aid or amoral hedge fund traders that seek to undermine the constitutional republic we hold so dear & rich Russian arms traders, I mean tycoons, she may have a point...
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck 5095   2012-09-25 20:59  

#9  The government of Sweden discovered otherwise. When they instituted higher taxes on millionaires, they just left. Tax revenues went down, but more importantly, in many cases the jobs those millionaires created left, too. Sweden then eliminated the millionaires tax when they elected a center-right government. Tax revenues increased, job creation increased, fewer Swedes were on welfare. They then re-elected that center right government. First time they had re-elected a center-right government in many decades.
Posted by: crosspatch   2012-09-25 20:48  

#8  Not the kind who got rich the way you did, Hillary, but the honest ones do.
Posted by: Iblis   2012-09-25 18:56  

#7  And when you run out of rich people to tap, then what?

These politicians are all parasites.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-09-25 18:46  

#6  She's basically claiming that state extortion is the whole of the economy.

Facepalm.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-09-25 18:41  

#5  >they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries

Cast out the mote from thine own eye!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-09-25 18:37  

#4  Now, now, you guys are much too hard on Hillary. After all, she did donate her $2 tighty whities to charity back in the 1980s.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-09-25 17:33  

#3  Do they stuff all their money in their mattresses or bury it in the backyard?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-09-25 17:17  

#2  Wataphuechinglooooon!
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-25 16:21  

#1  All these models of Saint Francis of Assisi telling us about how to conduct our lives.
Thou shall not covet.
Thou shall not bear false witness.
What part doesn't she grasp?/rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-09-25 15:54  

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