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Just so you folks at TH were unsure, John Gault is a fiction and Ayn Rand depended on social security and medicare to survive in her "golden years."
It turns out that not everyone who is French is a Socialist, wealth-redistributing hack. Amongst the sane is legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has rejected this position not solely because of taxes but rather because France has chosen to punish "...success, creation, talent." Americans are following suit.
France's new president, Francois Hollande, and his Socialist government is imposing a 75% marginal tax rate on income over 1 million Euros, or $1.3 million. Depardieu has decided to move to neighboring Belgium, which has no personal income tax. He purchased a home in the neighboring town of Nechin. 25% of...
Just like idiot statists like you are unsure/ignorant of the fact that SS and Medicare are economically unsustainable in their current format. Unfortunately, the liberal facists that control the Democrat Party are standing in the way of their needed reform. And you idiots re-elected their leader.
The money should be going to help people that need the help and not to line the pockets of the POLITICAL CLASS!!!!!! That is what the majority of people object to.