condolences, Republican posters

[Michchamp]

I know how much you guys love billionaires, and I just saw one died, very untimely, in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas. Link.

He was a billionaire coal mine owner, so you know, doing the Christian god's work by extracting fossil fuels from the ground.

This part really affected me:

To help his children, including two daughters, appreciate their privileged lives, Cline said at the time that he sometimes made them fly commercial, introduced them to minersand showed them videos of when he started out.
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Wow. Salt of the Earth.

Anyway, I wouldn't blame you guys for going into mourning and not posting for a couple weeks, or even months. It's always tough to lose one of your heroes. The deep love you feel for billionaires, and their low tax burdens, and unchecked political power is very touching.

 

[Mitchrapp]

May he rest in peace. Why would people love billionaires JUST BECAUSE they're billionaires I'm just trying to be a thousandaire. Not sure I understand your post.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Time for one of these guys to step up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

 

[byco42]

I know how much you guys love billionaires ... The deep love you feel for billionaires, and their low tax burdens, and unchecked political power is very touching.

 

[turok]

I know how much you guys love billionaires, and I just saw one died, very untimely, in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas. Link.

He was a billionaire coal mine owner, so you know, doing the Christian god's work by extracting fossil fuels from the ground.

This part really affected me:

To help his children, including two daughters, appreciate their privileged lives, Cline said at the time that he sometimes made them fly commercial, introduced them to minersand showed them videos of when he started out.
​

Wow. Salt of the Earth.

Anyway, I wouldn't blame you guys for going into mourning and not posting for a couple weeks, or even months. It's always tough to lose one of your heroes. The deep love you feel for billionaires, and their low tax burdens, and unchecked political power is very touching.

Welll...what was the old saying, the only things that can't be avoided are death and taxes? Maybe not so much the tax part anymore, IF you are a member of the 10% Club, but still no one has come up with an uber-expensive, death-defying, youth-restoring potion or serum for a half-century or more of additional multi-million/billionaire life, much less Old Testament-like lifespans.

Yet the disabled, ill, injured, and working poor could soon experience shorter and shorter lifespans overall, absent the funds, credit and/or especially insurance coverage required to pay the soaring costs necessary to maintain and restore their health as they age. Dental heath is very important, and I know waay too many people who avoid seeing a dentist b/c of the obscene costs of treatment.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Welll...what was the old saying, the only things that can't be avoided are death and taxes? Maybe not so much the tax part anymore, IF you are a member of the 10% Club, but still no one has come up with an uber-expensive, death-defying, youth-restoring potion or serum for a half-century or more of additional multi-million/billionaire life, much less Old Testament-like lifespans.

Yet the disabled, ill, injured, and working poor could soon experience shorter and shorter lifespans overall, absent the funds, credit and/or especially insurance coverage required to pay the soaring costs necessary to maintain and restore their health as they age. Dental heath is very important, and I know waay too many people who avoid seeing a dentist b/c of the obscene costs of treatment.

Well, every one of the poor and downtrodden to whom you?re referring have now all survived Chris Cline, so apparently they?re all in better health than he is today.

 

[turok]

Only if they are 61 years of age or older, as he died suddenly a day before his birthday.

Accidents can kill anyone at any age.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Only if they are 61 years of age or older, as he died suddenly a day before his birthday.

Accidents can kill anyone at any age.

No, that?s not what ?survived? means in this context.

Survived just means the living person is alive and the dead person is dead.

 

[tomdalton22]

I know how much you guys love billionaires, and I just saw one died, very untimely, in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas. Link.

He was a billionaire coal mine owner, so you know, doing the Christian god's work by extracting fossil fuels from the ground.

This part really affected me:

To help his children, including two daughters, appreciate their privileged lives, Cline said at the time that he sometimes made them fly commercial, introduced them to minersand showed them videos of when he started out.
​

Wow. Salt of the Earth.

Anyway, I wouldn't blame you guys for going into mourning and not posting for a couple weeks, or even months. It's always tough to lose one of your heroes. The deep love you feel for billionaires, and their low tax burdens, and unchecked political power is very touching.

There were 6 other people that died in the crash. They probably weren't all billionaires, so maybe liberals can mourn as well?

 

[tinselwolverine]

There were 6 other people that died in the crash. They probably weren't all billionaires, so maybe liberals can mourn as well?

Too bad they?re not gonna reap the benefits of his estate taxes.

 

[turok]

No, that?s not what ?survived? means in this context.

Survived just means the living person is alive and the dead person is dead.

He lived for nearly 61 years, with almost all else being equal, how would anyone who survived him, but passes away by whatever means, at a younger age be better off? Just b/c they are living further into the future than he had doesn't necessarily mean that they have led and had, will have, or are having healthier lives, longer lifespans or better lifestyles than he had.

 

[tinselwolverine]

He lived for nearly 61 years, with almost all else being equal, how would anyone who survived him, but passes away by whatever means, at a younger age be better off? Just b/c they are living further into the future than he had doesn't necessarily mean that they have led and had, will have, or are having healthier lives, longer lifespans or better lifestyles than he had.

Does any of that matter?

Today he?s dead and everybody who isn?t is alive.

I suppose it?s a matter of perspective.

 

[turok]

I have no problem with the departed Chris Cline having become what appears to be a self-made billionaire, although not so much in the field in which he did so....but if he hadn't then quite likely someone else would have, or some if not many others in the coal biz would have made even more.

As far as his surviving progeny, I would much rather that they get most of their inherited and unearned largesse taxed mercilessly.

But there are just too many voters in this country who will ensure that his kids live in the lap of luxury for as long as they themselves will live, as well as their kids (if any) and their kids...and so on. I am about a year and a half older than the late Cline, and life is too short and getting ever shorter to have very much, if any concern over what could or would happen soon after I pass away...not to mention having no kids myself, either.

 

[Spartanmack]

I know how much you guys love billionaires, and I just saw one died, very untimely, in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas. Link.

He was a billionaire coal mine owner, so you know, doing the Christian god's work by extracting fossil fuels from the ground.

This part really affected me:

To help his children, including two daughters, appreciate their privileged lives, Cline said at the time that he sometimes made them fly commercial, introduced them to minersand showed them videos of when he started out.
​

Wow. Salt of the Earth.

Anyway, I wouldn't blame you guys for going into mourning and not posting for a couple weeks, or even months. It's always tough to lose one of your heroes. The deep love you feel for billionaires, and their low tax burdens, and unchecked political power is very touching.

you're the only here who obsesses over billionaires. Your petty jealousy and bitterness that leads you to celebrate the death of someone you don't know but hate because he has more money than you is almost as sad as a plane crash with multiple fatalities.

 

[Spartanmack]

Too bad they?re not gonna reap the benefits of his estate taxes.

unless they were his specifically named heirs, they would have no legitimate claim to the benefits of his estate. Neither does the government.

 

[tinselwolverine]

unless they were his specifically named heirs, they would have no legitimate claim to the benefits of his estate. Neither does the government.

Well then, maybe somebody better tell Steve Mnuchin, ?cause I?m guessin? he has designs on the loot.

 

[Michchamp]

unless they were his specifically named heirs, they would have no legitimate claim to the benefits of his estate. Neither does the government.

Yes, it's not like his wealth is in US dollars, backed up by federal guarantees; it's all in gold he mined himself, using mines, roads, and on land no one else could claim, that he discovered himself, and defended from foreign interests with his own bare hands, not using publicly funded courts, police or military in any way shape or form.

 

[Michchamp]

Well then, maybe somebody better tell Steve Mnuchin, ?cause I?m guessin? he has designs on the loot.

Mnuchin can be dealt with relatively cheaply; hire him to speak at a coal mining conference for $100,000 (to be paid once he leaves office), and there will be no IRS issues.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Mnuchin can be dealt with relatively cheaply; hire him to speak at a coal mining conference for $100,000 (to be paid once he leaves office), and there will be no IRS issues.

I don?t think it works that way.

I think his boss is the only billionaire who never has to pay any taxes.

 

[Spartanmack]

Yes, it's not like his wealth is in US dollars, backed up by federal guarantees; it's all in gold he mined himself, using mines, roads, and on land no one else could claim, that he discovered himself, and defended from foreign interests with his own bare hands, not using publicly funded courts, police or military in any way shape or form.

nice word salad that says nothing except that you dont understand how money works. the US doesnt have a claim on assets denominated in dollars. if someone is holding currency, (i.e. treasury notes) they have a claim against the US Trasury not the other way around. dont you have a degree in economics? were you able to get that without taking a money and banking course or did you just forget how that works? You realize he's already paid taxes on his income so he has already contributed to the defense of the resources he paid for. He's also likely purchased property, mining rights, equipment, materials, fuel, etc that was taxed to pay for the roads and other infrastructure used while building his enterprise to employ likely thousands of people who also paid taxes on the wages he paid them. he then sold the goods produced that were bought and consumed that generated more income and wait for it - taxes.