This Is What Occupy Wall Street Looks Like…

…in 1979:

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[Stevie One Leg]

Nostalgia!

[Warty]

This is automatically better than OWS because of stilts.

[Stevie One Leg]

Plus big-head puppets!

[Drake]

And the brass band. Much better than a damn drum circle.

[Joshua Corning]

Hippies in 1979 cooler then hippies of today?!?!

I think this result was entirely unpredictable.

In fact no more then a few months ago i would have claimed it was an impossibility.

[Joshua Corning]

The right want to live in 1776...the left want to not work in 1979....

[Spencer]

I wasn't alive yet (well, I might have been by a catholic's definition, but probably not).

[soopermexican]

and in 20 years the hippies will be demanding we take down the destructive unsightly wind turbines and whining about the destruction of farmland because of ethanol subsidies. The world goes round, hippies don't bathe, and they never learn anything.

[jtuf]

+ 1

[Mr Whipple]

That was awesome. Now that is a protest I would go to, if just for the lulz.

[Sam B]

As a child I was given stock in a company that later went public.

With this money I have paid for private high school, private college and more than one masters degree at a private university.

Still, with what is left over I make more off capital gains than many people make working.

I recently learned that I pay lower taxes than a public school teacher. This is wrong.

Higher taxes would NOT have deterred my family from growing their businesses and employing people.

Tax me more.
Redistribute wealth.

I am the 1%
I stand with the 99%

http://westandwiththe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11548745100/as-a-child-i-was-given-stock-in-a-company-that

[JW]

Fuck off, slaver.

[Michael V]

Because you want the benefits of the society, you just don't want to have to pay your share for them. Good luck with that.

[barfman]

*barf*

[Tim]

The benefits of society are the ones that society has to offer through mutual trade. The benefits of government laws are a different story. We pay taxes for that but since one acre of property requires the same amount of protection as any other acre of property then the tax that makes it possible for government to protect that should be the same.

[R C Dean]

A trustafarian? At OWS? Color me shocked.

Nobody's stopping you from redistributing your own wealth, you stupid hippy. Lead from the front, man! Give it all away, and then you'll have the moral capital to back up your demands.

[Chris]

You still read post with the name Sam B attached?

[Aaron R]

It is greedy and selfish to want to keep the fruits of your labor...AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. It is greedy and selfish to say "I don't want to pay taxes because it supports other peoples' right to have a few of the same things I can still enjoy even by paying a small amount of my money to the government." It is greedy and selfish to say "I worked for my money, you can do the same" if you inherited money, prestige, position or connections from your ancestors and expect everyone else to do what you did, only without those advantages. It is greedy and selfish to say "I don't feel the need to support the country that allowed me to obtain my wealth and position, I expect that country to cater to my every whim"

[barfman]

*barf*

[Chris]

Goddamn. Go ahead and take the kulak's tractor if you promise to shut the fuck up, already.

Class warfare is so fucking annoying.

[?]

I may be greedy and selfish to want to keep the fruits of my labor but where do you get off claiming that people have a right to make me give it to them? You are correct about one thing, it is greedy and selfish to expect the country to cater to your every whim, which is what you seem to want.

[Mr Whipple]

How fucking stupid are you? How many more wars do you want the government to start with your money that you give to the government? Do you enjoy giving your money to baby killers?

But, I suppose if we only had the right people in government, everything would be sooooooooooooooooo grand.

[Tim]

Keeping what is yours is not an expense to other people. When did you having the right to your computer become an expense of someone else? Perhaps you stole it? That is the only way it can be an expense to someone else since the ownership of your computer came at the expense of someone else (aka they don't have it anymore which means negative computer for them). Most people trade for their stuff. They trade money for a computer and if you do it that way it is an expense to noone since no one is missing a computer that should have remained in their possession.

[JW]

Fuck off, slaver.

[Mr Whipple]

White liberal guilt

[##]

Translation: I've never worked a day in my life and have no idea how a business operates or how higher taxes would effect anything.

[Dave T]

Haha, yeah this one. Anyone claiming that capital investment isn't affected by taxes (i.e. changing the price/return of investing) can automatically be ignored. Let's call it hippynomics.

[Mr Whipple]

Hippie Economics = Sqrt (Keynesian Economics) * ln(Marxist Economics)

[Tim]

Hippie economics is more like fascist economics.

[cynical]

What kind of asshole think they ought to give more but won't do it without being faced with legal penalties?

Give the government more money if you think they deserve it.

[Chris]

Excellent brass band.

[highmesa]

Dwight Schrute doppelganger at 1:29

[Chris]

I thought I spotted a young Vlad Putin.

[Mr Whipple]

In all fairness, in an intentional, perpetual, monetary inflationist scheme, taxes are merely a curb on future price inflation.

According to Palyi

[Tim]

Thank God Reagen* came along. He wasn't perfect but he stopped all of this.

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