In article ,
 Josh Hill  wrote:


As far as I know, no one has called the rich vile. No
> one has said they hated them. And, of course, you've distorted my
> statement by misinterpreting it: obviously, capital gains tax rates
> benefit anyone who benefits from them, and just as obviously, that's
> mostly the rich, who control most of the nation's wealth. I say at
> least four because last I checked retirement accounts were tax free
> anyway.

  Depends on how much you make as to the tax status. I have passed the 
magic threshold to the rich. I don't qualify for the Roth so I have to 
use after tax dollars and will have to pay taxes on the money when I 
take it out. My only hope for redemption from a tax standpoint is that I 
have a lower income after retirement so the rate might be lower. That 
and the effects of not having the feds bleed off investments during the 
time that the money is in there, so I get to take advantage of more 
money for the compounding effect. 

> 
> And my question is -- why? I can understand greed, the sort of
> stinking rotten selfish greed that sits on mounds of cash or amuses
> itself with frippery while children go without dental care. And I can
> understand the middle class virtues -- hard work, self-reliance. But
> there's a sort of conservatism that I just don't understand. 
   
   You should since it exists pretty much exclusively in your own mind.
 
> That's so far out it hurts. And so my question is -- why? What purpose
> can it possibly serve to so mischaracterize these things that they're
> distorted beyond recognition, and then, as conservatives so often do,
> refuse to acknowledge the facts or the truth?

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