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| Rich Venture Capitalist Compares Taxes On The Wealthy To The Holocaust | |
| 2014-01-27 | |
| [HuffPoo] Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins wrote a letter to the editors at the Wall Street Journal, comparing the plight of the rich to the Holocaust, called "Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?"... and the WSJ published it. Link to WSJ article. "I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its 'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich', " some of whom are also..... Jews Perkins writes. Thomas Perkins, one of the founders of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, was comparing taxes on the super rich to the slaughter of millions in the Holocaust. Took him [and others] 5 long years to discover this ?
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 So he's basically saying all the rich people are jews?... (I know, I know; just seeing who that provokes.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-01-27 19:30 |
| #9 "Taxes on the wealthy" is not even a close to the "holocaust." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-01-27 18:59 |
| #8 Not even close. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-01-27 18:56 |
| #7 Guy is an idiot because although the shock value of nazi comparisons gets you noticed it also makes it far to easy for folks to dismiss your ideas. He might be 100% correct but he's made it difficult for anyone to take his ideas forward without looking like idiots. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-01-27 14:57 |
| #6 Yet another distraction from a key issue. Gay married couples should be free to own all the guns they want, and abort all their natural offspring, while protecting their marijuana plantations. Meanwhile - NYTimes op-ed 12/11/2012: Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system. They also have not charged any top HSBC banker in the case, though it boggles the mind that a bank could launder money as HSBC did without anyone in a position of authority making culpable decisions.Clearly, the government has bought into the notion that too big to fail is too big to jail. When prosecutors choose not to prosecute to the full extent of the law in a case as egregious as this, the law itself is diminished. The deterrence that comes from the threat of criminal prosecution is weakened, if not lost. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-01-27 14:21 |
| #5 Hey! Keep me out of it! I don't want anything to do with these people. |
| Posted by: San Andreas Fault 2014-01-27 10:54 |
| #4 Mabey the San Andreas Fault could lend a hand on this issue..... |
| Posted by: 746 2014-01-27 09:23 |
| #3 A Pox on both houses. Look to your peers Mr. Perkins. Who finances these progressive socialists? Soros isn't a 99 percenter. Those who operate tax free trusts like the Tides Foundation are not among the 99 percenters. Then there are your other fellow peers who utterly corrupt the political system to protect their assets through purchase and lobbying of favors and special legislation. The greatest protection to you and your peers is a strong middle class and yet all those involved in the proceeding points have and now are engaged in destroying that middle class. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-27 08:43 |
| #2 Substitute "Tea Party" for "Jew", and you have the current formula of the Demicratic Party. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-01-27 05:20 |
| #1 Link and excerpt from Red State article nearly two years ago: The Nazis knew very well that in order to gain support for their takeover of the lives of ordinary Germans, they needed to create an “enemy at home” – someone to blame for unemployment, inflation, and economic chaos. Being highly visible as business owners and professionals, and even more importantly, seen as successful while many Germans were atruggling, “the Jewish problem” was the perfect scapegoat. The Nazis also understood the importance and effectiveness of propaganda in shaping public opinion. Most students of history recognize the name of film director Leni Riefenstahl, whose “Triumph of the Will” is perhaps the most famous propaganda film of the Third Reich. But there were many others, such as Viet Harlan, the maker of “Jew Suss” – a virulently anti-Semitic film made during Hitler’s regime. Students of propaganda know that official government proclamations have limited affect – people tend to tune them out. But the endless repetition of themes, especially when cleverly intertwined with popular “entertainment” media, can be remarkably effective in altering the perceptions of average people. [The underlined portions, my doing] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-27 02:03 |