The people down the street from us at the Landings bought their house for probably around $300,000 and recently sold it for close to $2 million. This makes me sick. It's time we implemented a windfall profits tax on all these greedy homeowners in America who, god forbid, are trying to sell their house at the highest possible price, thereby eminating a crucial signal to other owners and homebuilders alike that the market needs more houses and that providing them will be handsomely rewarded.
I saw a little girl the other day selling lemonade for $1 a glass. Greedy bitch. She's "manipulating" the price of lemonade, and I won't tolerate it. She should be generous and sell each glass for 5 cents instead and then donate the other 95 cents to research for cheaper ways of creating alternative types of drinks like cranberry juice or orange juice. Damn her for calculating the highest price that consumers are willing and able to pay and then charging it. She knows it's hot outside and she's providing a means for people to quench their thirst. Gouger.
All of this makes me sick. People don't deserve incentives to produce goods and services. We just need to abolish entrepreneurs and the profit incentive altogether. I know this defies all logic, because profit is what makes people get up in the morning, and is the basis for every trade made every day around the world, but who cares, logic is boring. Government officials just need to start doing what feels good.
"It's time we stopped thinking about the individual for once and started focusing instead on what's good for society." - Hillary Rodham Clinton
2 comments:
Don't be so critical. We must always act with compassion, Pat.
For more information on compassion, please visit
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I don't even understand why politics even exist. There is no argument to this post. Democrats are the type of people who, as children, played against themselves at board games.
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