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mahpycart:

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that. Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

okay wow, this made me so motherfucking angry. When you tax the rich, IT DOES NOT MAKE THEM POOR. THEY ARE STILL HELLA FUCKING RICH. And just because you tax the rich even more, it does not give the poor an incentive to quit their jobs just because the “other half is going to take care of them.” What fucking other half? The top 1% owns 40% of the wealth. Alleviating these taxes will not make the poor rich, it just makes them slightly less poor, enough so it’ll be easier to support themselves. That still doesn’t mean that the minute the poor doesn’t have to pay taxes, they’re gonna quit their jobs and parade down the street and have bomb ass parties because “Hey! We don’t have to pay taxes!”
God, and using grades is a terrible fucking example to use with money. Grades don’t circulate like money. If I have an A and it evens out to a C so it’s equal to everyone else, THAT IS NOT THE SAME MOTHERFUCKING THING as if I’m ballin’ and I’m giving out money, because I’m still fucking rich. People like Bill Gates make hundreds, even thousands of dollars a minute, and it’s no big deal (not saying Bill Gates is a bad person, because he’s a wonderful philanthropist). If he donated millions of dollars every fucking week, he is still fucking rich.
In my opinion, anyone who thinks that evening out grades and money are the same thing are dumb as fuck.

First thing’s first: everyone in America that makes anything more than $30,000 a year is in the top 1%. In college, your grade does equate to your money since you are paying for that course. Who wants to pay to fail? If you’re going to take it the hard way, just know that it’s an experiment that the professor did. Perhaps that could teach a life lesson. I’m in the upper-lower class/lower-middle class in our nation’s crap economy, so I’m not saying this out of a “wealthier perspective.” Yeah, bringing up the amount of the graduated tax that’s placed on the wealthy is probably a good idea to help this country, but I hope you do know that people try to stay in a certain income bracket to stay out of the higher taxes. So let’s say there’s a 40% income tax that’s taxing people who make $1 million or more annually. They can cheat the system and somehow manage to make $999,999.999 a year and get taxed, what, 35%?And calm yourself. It’s hotheaded people that don’t think ahead in this nation that’s bringing it to ruins.

mahpycart:

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..

The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.

Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

okay wow, this made me so motherfucking angry. When you tax the rich, IT DOES NOT MAKE THEM POOR. THEY ARE STILL HELLA FUCKING RICH. And just because you tax the rich even more, it does not give the poor an incentive to quit their jobs just because the “other half is going to take care of them.” What fucking other half? The top 1% owns 40% of the wealth. Alleviating these taxes will not make the poor rich, it just makes them slightly less poor, enough so it’ll be easier to support themselves. That still doesn’t mean that the minute the poor doesn’t have to pay taxes, they’re gonna quit their jobs and parade down the street and have bomb ass parties because “Hey! We don’t have to pay taxes!”

God, and using grades is a terrible fucking example to use with money. Grades don’t circulate like money. If I have an A and it evens out to a C so it’s equal to everyone else, THAT IS NOT THE SAME MOTHERFUCKING THING as if I’m ballin’ and I’m giving out money, because I’m still fucking rich. People like Bill Gates make hundreds, even thousands of dollars a minute, and it’s no big deal (not saying Bill Gates is a bad person, because he’s a wonderful philanthropist). If he donated millions of dollars every fucking week, he is still fucking rich.

In my opinion, anyone who thinks that evening out grades and money are the same thing are dumb as fuck.

First thing’s first: everyone in America that makes anything more than $30,000 a year is in the top 1%. In college, your grade does equate to your money since you are paying for that course. Who wants to pay to fail? If you’re going to take it the hard way, just know that it’s an experiment that the professor did. Perhaps that could teach a life lesson. I’m in the upper-lower class/lower-middle class in our nation’s crap economy, so I’m not saying this out of a “wealthier perspective.” Yeah, bringing up the amount of the graduated tax that’s placed on the wealthy is probably a good idea to help this country, but I hope you do know that people try to stay in a certain income bracket to stay out of the higher taxes. So let’s say there’s a 40% income tax that’s taxing people who make $1 million or more annually. They can cheat the system and somehow manage to make $999,999.999 a year and get taxed, what, 35%?

And calm yourself. It’s hotheaded people that don’t think ahead in this nation that’s bringing it to ruins.

(via fjl)