-We are currently starving Cuban children to death with an illegal immoral completely unjustifiable blockade

Are you aware of our economic history with Cuba?

-Now tell us simply without dodging or false equivilancy - do you support the rich getting more and everyone else getting less?

you have the responsibility to ask a coherent question if you're going to accuse me of dodging the answer.

"getting more"? WTF does that mean?

You sound like someone who believes it's impossible to accumulate wealth. Rather, it's distributed by the government to folks who are called "billionaires".

"he doesn't need any more sandwiches?" so? What now? Specifically, what do you want? It's already understood that billionaires have more money than they could ever hope to spend.

Try and understand the actual economy and use words that better explain it. "stole sandwiches from hungry kids to give to the rich"..........explain what that means if you can.

"this has nothing to do with Donald Trump starving kids"

What's ironic is that headline doesn't move the needle at all.

Everyone in this country is either immune to that accusation or they're outright happy this is happening.

-And then people like you celebrate their right to do so.

no, I don't. But I do celebrate your right to bitch about it.

Sharyn Alfonsi's own words are "fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 minutes."

I'm just agreeing with her.

I'm not defending this decision and it may be exactly what she says it is.

-You think a billionaire notices a missing dollar?

Are you or are you not arguing that billionaires are greedy psychos who have the audacity to limit their tax liability even when it's an insignificant amount of money they're saving? That they wouldn't notice the extra tax being taken so they should just pay it and STFU?

-You comparing me to a billionaire in order to shame me is hilarious

Are you or are you not arguing that billionaires are greedy psychos over money they could easily part with?

Could you not part with more money to the government?

I paid almost $100K in income and property taxes last year. I guess I should be happy it wasn't $105K and I sure as hell shouldn't try to pay $94K this year, right?

Of course I'm comparing you to a billionaire. Billionaires feel pain, feel joy, feel sadness and loss, don't want to get punched in the face nor get robbed. Hell, they even say please and thank you from time to time.

Does that sound anything like you?

"you think a $1000 to a billionaire is the same as $1000 to the poor."

To be clear, I don't think that.

I'm not some phony libertarian. I don't call for some flat tax or some national sales tax, VAT or whatever term is used to describe it.

I'm a supporter of an actual progressive tax system. I would like to see the wealthiest pay more of their higher incomes in a higher bracket and not avoid it with "carried interest" and other mechanisms that are legally available to them.

But that's not enough for you guys, is it?

I need to pledge that the mere existence of a billionaire is offensive and should be banned.....or something like that?

-Tax cuts for the middle class were just hush money peanuts to make them accept the much larger tax cuts for the rich

On top of getting half this country out of paying any income taxes (sans FICA of course), yes.

-Bill gates could by a billion sandwiches without feeling a financial pinch.

Of course, and he's a very charitable person or at least that's how a lot of people perceive him.

You think he's a greedy prick who isn't buying enough sandwiches. And your only argument for that is because he can afford to buy more.

He claims to have paid more than $10 billion in taxes and openly advocates for higher taxes on the wealthy.....but he's made moves to avoid paying billions and billions in estate taxes. Not sure how many sandwiches his foundation buys but he would rather not pay it to uncle sam, obviously.

The money he's not paying to uncle sam is starving kids right now.

To be clear, that's your argument?

-you hope it was for some greater good you cant see right now.

I prefer to view it from the perspective that it's an employment and personnel issue and I don't have the facts.

-Not anymore. Perhaps it did once.

Do you have a criticism of the actual show? I've watched it a long time. I enjoy it like always.

I'm talking about this show....not all of CBS, BTW.

-Didn't they also get a $600 tax rebate?

Oh, so you're excusing, perhaps even defending, the tax cuts for the wealthy because we also cut taxes on the middle class?

Maybe you need to rethink that angle.

One of the most brilliant tactics the GOP employed was to place as many folks possible outside the area of paying federal income taxes.

The democrats gladly went along with it but now we have a political environment where a significant portion of the middle class resents the hell out of lower income people paying no taxes while they receive medicaid, food stamps, free school lunches, EITC, etc.

This is how the GOP manages to lure millions of new voters into their camp from the other side because of this frustration. They blame this on the democratic party....which is bullshit because the GOP wanted this.

-And what's apparent to me is that you think a $1000 to a billionaire is the same as $1000 to the poor.

buying someone a $10 sandwich is the same whether or not you buy it or I buy it.....or if Bill Gates buys it.

-So, no, I personally did not feel guilty at all.

of course not. That was my point.

-What poor people were screwed to give me that $600?

uh oh...you're starting to show some intelligence, albeit short lived, I'm sure.

If you got to keep more money......that's money we could have used to feed someone. That's been your argument throughout this. The only difference it's your dollar.....not some billionaire's dollar.

I know....you must feel like a total greedy bastard, huh?