COMEDIAN ‘REDISTRIBUTES’ CHILDREN’S CANDY IN HILARIOUS ‘OBAMA-STYLE’ HALLOWEEN PRANK

That's a really clever way to teach children about taxes. Hell should have taught them income tax at the same time, take their candy and put into your own pocket. Pretty cool video.

And with the "help" of public schools all of those children and other children will literally be reprogrammed to deeply believe that theft is only righteous and even brings out the VERY best of one's community if it's done by the Government, Chip! I feel very sorry for those kids because their wills are going to be so very broken and shattered later on entirely due to real life and the public school system.

been tried before. The folks that came on the Mayflower were sure they could build a better society and 80% starved to death. Read [link to en.wikipedia.org]
you should be able to find it online.

how did they starve to death?

A flat candy rate seems fair to me.

Everyone comes and gets all the candy they want and then give a flat percentage of that candy to those who can't afford it or walk or have some other issues limiting them from candy.

The fact that some can collect the most candy and have to give back less percentage wise is an abomination and has nothing to do with the term fair.

This guy is a twirp

Does that not give incentive to try harder? Plus like I said earlier 3 bags getting 15% taken is still more total than 1 bag losing 30%

sorry your analogy doesn't work. the kids who had more candy worked harder

and i seriously doubt if many on this thread are "poor"

This is epic!! What a great way to teach everyone about obamanomics!

you should read the account but a quick summary is they did everything in common (communism) and the single men thought it unfair their labor went to feed the families of the married men so slacked off. Starvation resulted. When they were allowed personal plots production flourished and there was surplus.

Good shit man!

they tried to do the collectivist scheme you advocate the consequence was a few people worked hard but most were freeloaders. the producers stopped working and starvation resulted

Of course there is an incentive to try harder.
If I am making a wimpy 10 bars of candy an hour and the candy monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 7 bars to do with what I like.

If I am making 100 bars/hour and the monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 70 bars to do with what I like.

Therefore the more candy bars I make the more it benefits me and the more it benefits my country

The problem is, we have too many candy hoarders that have so much candy they are forced to hide it in their pockets. They even move it into other countries because they don't want to pay the same 30% as everyone else.

Heck they are even willing to pay people tons of candy to overlook their candy when it's audit time.

The bag solution you provide is a bit off, but still fits. The worst way to measure candy is by the bag full. 15% of a pillow case is way more than 15% of a plastic grocery bag. What some people try to do is put all their good candy into a smaller bag so when the monster comes he can't take all of the good candy.

Flat tax is the only thing that makes any sense at all.

Imagine this same experiment where you only took 10% from a bag filled with candy and took 30% from a bag half full.
This is the problem with the current economic state of this country.

Agree..... the goal is Freedom and Independence of the Individual but all I am saying is that in this battle, and it is a war,
if we are profiting from the wounded in any
way, we are feeding the beast. I hope, I am not being too vague, it is so important that we all get this. If you hand a wounded King a cup of water, do you say "I have restored a Kingdom" or do you say "I gave a cup of water" Do we support Kingdom restorers or do some passively and secretly
rejoice in the downfall of a King. and no one calls them on the murderous spirit in their heart.

...this is supposed to make a politically sound analogy?

Starting to sound more and more like traditional dem/rep in here. "It doesn't matter how grossly inaccurate of an example this is, as long as it agrees with me."

Money does not equal candy. If anything, this video goes to show how selfishly attached we are to frivolous possessions. The children aren't going to realistically think about how much of that candy is going to be thrown away, how much of it they don't even like, or furthermore how corrosive it is to their health. Not that I would say they shouldn't eat it...Halloween is fun, and they ought to enjoy it.

We don't all "deserve" cable television and multi-story homes and the latest fancy vehicle. Nor do these things even make us happy. Why insist that we need such an abundance of resources? It's ugly anyway, if you ask me.

We should just get rid of the income tax....

I know that wouldn't happen....politicians love wasting our money too much for that to ever happen.

I don't understand why people advocate taking more money from people. Just because those people earn more than them..

I don't want people who make more than me, to pay more taxes....that's not right, let the people keep what they earn.

I love that smilie that a few people post, says "I never understood why it is considered greed to want to keep what you earn, yet not considered greed to want and take what others have earned."

I read this a few times, and I don't understand your analogy.....

Is there any other way you can explain it?

On the other end of the spectrum would be the people who have candy, but don't give any to the trick-or-treaters who come to their doors and instead hoard all the candy to themselves.

I agree that people who can should work for their candy, but if someone's hoarding it all there's less to go around.

Put another way, if there are 10 candy apples and Joe Blow is hoarding 9 of them, how many are there left for the hard working trick-or-treaters who come to his door?

I wouldn't at all be surprised if Joe Blow's house was toilet papered the following morning - probably by the same kids who didn't want to share their candy in the video.

I suppose greed and selfishness are virtues and sharing isn't on this thread.

i can't believe those kids stood up to individual rights..they must be home schoolers

Yeah I'll agree the income tax is completely absurd. But the way I look at it its like this. If I am a high income earner and rely on people to do the heavy lifting for me, i.e. a job creator. Then I rely more heavily on public transportation, health care, road maintenance, electric, water, sewer, gas. Cause not only do my employees need these things to get to their job, but also I use more federal and state facilities and utilities. I own buildings that need to be up more often than not.

My workers rely on the same utilities as I, but if the road is closed they just can't get to work. If the power s out, they don't make any widgets for the day. Sure some may still collect pay, but most will not.

So as a high income job creator I rely more heavily on govt. Utilities and transportation. Heck I can even run my business through the post office.

So this is how I justify the flat tax rate ideology. Yes I make more so I owe more, but in all actuality I rely on public services more so than the average worker. Considering workers only rely on these things for their own good, I rely on utilities and transportation for each one of my workers and for the business as a whole.

Do I think its fair for high earners to have to pay more percentage wise than a normal wage earner? No but having to pay more into a system that I rely more heavily on is something that I totally agree with.

If it's their candy...who cares? Who are we to tell anyone what to do with their stuff? Or money?

Is it morally wrong? Maybe, that's another discussion. But in a free society, people should be allowed to keep what's theirs if that is what they choose.

He should have taken all the candy, provided 99% of it to 1% of the children, developed additional candy incentives for those 1% if they outsourced their candy collection to a poor third world nation, and then taken 30% off the top of the remaining children to show them that all but the top echelon get f-d no matter how you look at it.

That was great. "That's not your shirt, you didn't build that." LOL! I would have loved him explaining to them afterwards what the experiment was all about and how that is the plan of obama and that's what obama wants to do with their parents' salary.

I would love to do this to the black kids and parents that come top my door tonight. And the reason I single out the black kids is that I know all the blacks in my area support obama.

How do you think that would work out for me?

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the kids haven't been in public school long enough for that to have been beat down.

I see your point of view. I have a few disagreements with it, but all in all I see your points.

there shouldn't even be an income tax. a national sales tax will work just fine.

I fully support a national sales tax to replace the income tax.

it's not about spending for politicians, it's about power.

the power to tax is the power to destroy