Quote Originally Posted by mUUser View Post
I'm wondering if you think Sam Walton opened his five and dime store as a $450 billion dollar business, or, maybe, he cut his teeth as a stocker and manager of Ben Franklin stores, found a niche market, risked his life savings, and worked his a$$ to the bone to expand his business.

Being somewhat familiar with the NWA area, I can assure you the Walton's are directly responsible for creating thousands of middle-class millionaires....secretary's, admins, managers, accountants, etc..... They've also invested in many philanthropic ventures through both the family foundation, and the walmart stores foundation.....billions of dollars. There's two sides to every coin my friend.

Look, I get it. You're pissed that some people are wildly successful and others aren't. Taking a dump on those that have the skills to make gobs of money doesn't fix a thing.
Dead on. Those folks who want to punish the successful businessmen/women because they became successful simply don't understand basic economics and capitalism.

Go look at Venezuela as the latest example of a government controlled economy or "socialism". Capitalism isn't perfect. It's simply better than any other system.

I pay over a third of the income I receive in some form of tax. I certainly pay a fair share of taxes. I come from parents who never graduated form college and were truly middle class. I graduated from college and graduate college. Through a lot of work and effort I am now considered upper middle class. Everybody I work around came form similar backgrounds and have similar success stories, but they all had to work their asses off to get where they've gotten. Fortunately, this country still incentivizes hard work and education.

Massive attempts to redistribute wealth does nothing to assist the overall economic growth of this nation. It's down right unamerican, short sited, stupid and harmful. But it sure sounds good. Kind of like promising to put soda in the drinking fountains.