Forum Post: Tax the rich at 95%
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 3:13 p.m. EST by LobbyDemocracy
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Ideas like this are not productive, but the do bring people to your link. There are tangential view points in all movements. What we need to do is find the central core of agreement and push for change. I have a means to do so. I founded a lobbying organization to represent the interests of the majority. We are introducing a polling system that will record polling data for all of our members by congressional district so that we can use the information to contact their representatives. Any issue that reaches 65% support nationally we will look district by district and convey the desires of our membership to our elected leaders. By conducting ourselves this way we can lose the tangential arguments and get to a core consensus that will give us power in unity. If you are interested please visit www.lobbydemocracy.com to learn more. If you like what you see please let us know about it here so that we can keep rising to the top of the list and more people can learn about us. If you have questions feel free to let us know either here or through the contact us page of our website.
there was another site promoting a similar idea- www.lemonparty.org
People are seeming to miss the fact that I am not arguing for a 95% tax rate. I am saying that is the type of idea that has no chance of success and needs to be filtered out. What I am doing is proposing a method to conduct that filtering.
If that were to happen, it wouldn't affect me in the least, but that idea sounds as batshit-crazy to me as anything Michele Bachmann could ever come up with. When I first heard high-income people were taxed at 90% back in the 50's I thought the same thing. Now THAT'S socialism. And not the good kind.
Or put them into retraining camps and if that doesn't work cut off their heads right?
Why don't you pay attention to the modern day Marie Antoinette whom has personally spent over $10 million dollars in tax payer money of her private vacations. She is more guilty then the banks.
We are contacting them, but we are failing to find unity before we do so. A collection of random letters all across the spectrum will not carry the same weight as if we find central themes and push them with the power of numbers.
first impressions are extremely important. If you present your movement with crazy ideas, its hard to build a narrative out.
I'm an FEC registered candidate for the Presidential election 2012. My question to voters is "What if voters got to VOTE on a revolution"? Your "65% support" aligns with my needing "65,000,000 voters". I seek 65,000,000 voters to support a voter designed platform of changes, mandates, and Constitutional amendments. "contacting representatives" while admirable is what we are already doing, isn't it? http://www.JeffBlock2012.com
Why not 110%?