Bernie Sanders Asks the Rich: ‘When is Enough Enough?’
**Written by Doug Powers
During his filibuster speech, Vermont Rep. and super-Socialist Bernie Sanders asked multi-millionaires “when is enough enough?” Forget for a moment the fact that all Sanders had to do was look around the room and ask some of his hypocritical colleagues that question.
Here’s Sanders — a train robber with the audacity to accuse the passengers of “making out like bandits” simply for hanging on to what he couldn’t manage to steal:
Below are some government revenue and spending trends demonstrating that taxpayers are the ones who should be asking Bernie Sanders “when is enough enough” instead of the other way around:
When is “enough” enough, Rep. Sanders? Stop being a crybaby and answer the question.
Although I have a feeling Sanders’ response to how much more das kapital US taxpayers should be forced to cough up would be the same as the auto mechanic’s reply to Clark Griswold in the movie Vacation when he asked how much he owed them for the repairs: “All of it, boy.”
Update: Will lefty pundits call for class warfare socialists to tone down the rhetoric now that an arsonist is leaving “f–k the rich” notes at places he starts fires?
(h/t Moonbattery)
**Written by Doug Powers
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Look no further than the last election to determine the answer to that question.
The gov doesn’t own our money. Why won’t they get that. Sanders and the rest in DC have a spending problem. They have been spending more money than they take in for decades. The spending is out of control and needs to stop. Sanders’ little temper tantrum exposes why he never should have been in congress in the first place. I have had enough of the DC elites.
Rich people to Bernie and DC, when is enough enough?
Seriously, there would be no rich people if people ran their lives and businesses the way DC works. DC lost 1.5 Trillion dollars This YEAR. and they look down their noses at successful businessmen.
Look Bernie, you have 2T a year to spend. Spend that and nothing else. It should be enough to provide for the national defense. . . but you elected morons don’t think it is enough to secure our own border.
The NERVE chastising successful Americans while you spend this once great and proud nation into a ditch!
Off Topic, I was watching Fox and they had a story on kids getting their cell phones confiscated in schools because it is disruptive. . .
It was a good piece, but notably in one video clip of a girl walking, some dude flipped her off and it was totally on camera. I thought it was hilarious.
Funny that the reporter ended the piece with ‘kids need to know that there are consequences when you do something wrong’. . . LOL how ironic because she just violated FCC rules I’m sure.
I don’t know, that just tripped my funny bone and made my morning.
I couldn’t tell if the dude was flipping her off or the camera. It was perfect. LOL
This is the typical Marxist/socialist mantra. It presupposes that someone’s wealth is in direct proportion to someone else’s misery (or as they claim, the misery of a whole class of people). That the “rich” only got that way by stealing the wealth or otherwise exploiting the masses to obtain wealth.
Hearing this class warfare garbage truly makes my hair hurt. If only we had politicians on our side of the aisle who would call this garbage out instead of letting it slide. Like Rush and Levin do on a daily basis. Sheesh.
This is America. Enough is NEVER enough!
No reporters in the MSM ever bother to ask Sanders: “Since you make well over $125,000 per year as a senator, do you voluntarily pay your income tax at the 39% top rate that we had in the Clinton years?”
Obviously, his answer will be “No”. And the follow up question is: Why don’t you do it voluntarily?” and then the follow up question is: “Who is preventing you from paying at the old top marginal rate?”
The sanctimony from this doofus from the socialist heartland of Vermont is something else.
“This reckless, uncontrolable greed is like a disease. It’s an addiction.”
Substitute “power” for “greed,” you hyper-political punk! Then get some help. You’re the addict. When is enough ehough? Sheesh. For you politicruds waaaay too much is still not enough.
If I may borrow the direct and eloquent response of Mr Cheney to your undistinguished Vermont vermin coleague, Loony Leahy…
“Go F#&k yourself.”
Limit Sanders’ salary and all other sources of income to $50,000. Establish a per diem rate to include any free meals, lodging, etc. This rate should be the same as all federal employees. After all, enough is enough.
While we are at it, we should create a dorm/housing project for all congressional critters. Make them live there…after all, their homes are not supposed to be in D.C. Enough is enough.
Hey, I like this “enough is enough” game. I could do this all day…
Now we know what happens to redistributing socialists who break the commandments “thou shalt not covet” and “thou shalt not steal”. They become babbling idiots like Bernie Sanders.
Ever notice how rich socialists always want to redistribute other people’s money but not their own. In fact they usually end up redistributing other people’s money into their own pockets.
They really do think D.C. should decide who gets what. Socialist is the soft name for totalitarians.
Let’s just force Bernie Sanders to live just like he wants the rest of us to live. He wouldn’t last 2 minutes!!
Alright, Bernie, let’s take a hypothetical here. Imagine personal wealth were limited to, say, $10 million. Everything over that would automatically go to the Government. Then Sam Walton would have opened only a couple of stores. Why work harder at opening more stores? He won’t make any more money! So, you wouldn’t be able to stop at one store and buy nearly everything you need.
Do you like the Windows operating system? Or the Mac operating system? Being able to do everything from surfing the web, typing your latest socialist claptrap, with a spreadsheet of your false, misleading, and cherry-picked data? Well, why would Bill Gates or Steve Jobs work so hard developing their software? They wouldn’t make anymore money from it! They would be working for free!
How much is enough? Well, when we find out, we’ll tell you. I’ll leave you with these Bible verses:
Luke 10:6 If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
1 Timothy 5:18 For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,”and “The worker deserves his wages.”
That’s enough Bernie. Shut up and sit down. Let the GOP kill this bill (if they know what’s good for them).
Let’s ask Bernie if he is willing to take a 10% cut in pay and allowances every year that congress does not run a balanced budget.
What a miserable old man.
He’s a liberal, are they not all miserable, that’s even after they’ve taken as much of your money as they can?
Ever notice how it seems liberals are always whining….miserable whiners.
Yet another reason for term limits….
Wade said: What a mean
miserableold man.His sister Pam works in a shop she never stops she’s real go getter.
I’m all for taxing Vermont at 100%.
this makes no sense. the products you mention were developed when the top tax rates were much higher than they were today.
plus, you don’t really think raising the top tax rate by 3% will prevent people from making *any* money, do you? i mean, ‘working for free?’ is insanely hyperbolic.
Looks like somebody’s happy Steve Jobs finally scored the Beatles for Itunes!
I have been asking this question for years. Over the past few decades the US government has spent MORE THAN $5 TRILLION in the “War on Poverty.”
Evidently, this is the nation’s greatest and longest running quagmire. Yet Harry Reid has not yet declared defeat though he and his friends have essentially bankrupted the US in the effort.
How much government spending is enough? I suspect most in Washington, DC have NEVER even considered the question!
I refer you to the first part of my statement:
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton, et.al. would not have developed the products and services we want, need, and desire because they would only get $10 million bucks and no more.
I ask Bernie Sanders: “Why must there be a limit on wealth?”
Hey, Bernie! Give me the name of even just one successful socialist country. Just remember: I get to name all of those liberal left-wing socialist successes like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Hitler’s Germany, The Soviet Union, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Communist China, East Germany…
Yeah, let’s talk about East Germany. How come when Germany reunited, socialist East Germany gave up socialism and joined with free West Germany? If socialism is so terrific, why didn’t West Germany give up it’s freedom and join “the worker’s paradise” in socialist East Germany? Hmmmmm?!?
On the other hand, Bernine. Just STFU.
Because the socialist elites don’t want anyone from the lower class moving through the middle class to the upper class. Basically, it’s the same reason why the socialists give just enough money to the slum and ghetto dwellers to keep them where they are. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want any of the recipients of welfare buying a house next to his.
For intelligent people, we don’t believe that giving money away is the answer. If someone works hard and accumulates wealth, we don’t care where they buy their house.
the richest, greediest entity in this country is our socialist pig government, run by morons like this jackass Sanders. his greedy pig govt can never steal enough of our money, property or our freedom.
so Pig Sanders, when is enough enough? it was called Nov 2 you moron. eat it.
well then….
F–k the socialists.
When is senile senile enough?
Here’s a start – when we make back the enourmous amount of investment value we lost because of the Democrat-induced recession.
After all, the Soviet Bloc mined their side of the Berlin Wall to keep Westerners from immigrating to the “Workers Paradise” in droves. Amazing that when you create Utopia, people are willing to risk a horrible death just to escape it.
/sarc off
Breaking News;
Bernie Sanders says to wealthy-give me your money you stingy rats!
The Bernie Sanders of this world have killed MILLIONS of the innocent in their never ending quest for some weird vision of Social Justice. No matter how many they kill they have to keep killing because it is never enough: Until we are done as his Uncle Joe Stalin put it.From Lenin and Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot and the cartoon characters in South America they do what they need to do with nary a thought for the pain they cause.
Bernie Sanders may well be an eccentric old fool but he is also one evil SOB. ‘When is Enough Enough?’ I do not know Senator; how many of us do you plan to kill?
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I love it! Bernie Sanders, the communist, says people should give him their excess money so he can do great things! Like make it economically feasible for 15 year olds to have bastard children without hampering their parent’s lifestyle! Like feeding nursing and careing for children when you are supposed to be educating them! Like allowing the the unemployed to maintain a cozy life for 2 years on the taxpayers dime while they catch up on all the Oprah messages. Like Overpaying our gubmint workers to the point they make twice what the private sector makes with benefits and retirement ponzi schemes which are bankrupting the country. Sure Bernie, You are such a fabulous steward of this country’s revenue that you have us on the brink of financial collapse in a mere 4 years of entrusting the likes of you with the combination to the vault.
I’m sure it is very tedious for socialists like Sanders, Pelosi, Schumer, and the numerous black theology accolytes in Congress to have to try and pass laws to “lawfully” take our money.
If they just had a man in the White House that that would rule by fiat (or, Imperial Decree?), and just take it…
Great idea Bernie. I’ll work my ass off to make something you can steal and share with your friends. I like the idea. It gives me a great incentive to labor and toil and create things. Who would have thought a philosophy of theft and confiscation would bring such prosperity to the world?
Personal giving = good. Government theft and political redistribution = bad. Give it some thought Bernie.
Hey, Bernie, have you asked the Hollywood elite that question? And what did they tell you?
Never. I’m pretty sure Sen Byrd was actually dead during his last year in the Senate. No one noticed.
Bernie, like all socialists, have that exactly backward: Personal giving = bad, Government
theftrelieving of excessive personal funds and political redistribution=perfect.Really, Bernie, just don’t blow wind and stir up your useful idiot base, fight for and demand an annual 20% tax on total wealth for those whose wealth exceeds $5 million, for example. I mean having $5 million in total wealth is amply enough, right?. I’m sure your DEMONcrat finanially supporting millionaires and billionaires, like Bill Gates, et al, will wholeheartedly back you in getting a wealth tax enacted.
Amazing to watch Sanders, who, like a spoiled child on Christmas morning, got everything he ever wantedfor 2 years, then throws a fit when the electorate says “thats all”……Not a surprise, though. As genteel and charming as he usually tries to be, when you peel him down a few layers, he’s a bomb-thrower, same as all the other Leftists.
Hey Bernie? Guess what?
I don’t answer to you. So piss off.
Hawkeye you are right. The super-rich Lefties have pulled off one hell of a con—get everyone to focus on EARNED wealth, and hide the pea of their vast personal fortunes under the shell in the back….That way, they get to keep the newly rich riff-raff out of their club.
What is bothering them is that the confiscatory estate taxes –which have served as a type of wealth tax in the past— are also on the table. They were able to avoid THAT wealth tax with their Kennedy-style foundations and tax-dodges, but it gave them another shot at preventing newly-rich (entreprenuers) from amassing too much wealth.
There’s a reason that the The Communist Manifesto, the UN Charter, and the Dem’s policy goals all call for the elimination of inheritances. Too much $$ in the hands of individuals makes dominance and control of the people too difficult.
Per Dick Cheney, I believe the correct etiquette for responding to an idiot Senator from Vermont is, “Go f*** yourself.” Just sayin’
Proper Congressional decorum is important.
Swede#46 – your post had me laughing! My sentiments exactly. We do need to be concerned about Congressional decorum, like not shouting out “You Lie” even when we all know they are.