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Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Jack Roberts — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:38:56 GMT

Compared to working in IT as a system admin that sounds great. I can work 1800 hours a year or 35 hours a week and only at a rate of $30-55 per hour. The difference is that there are far more jobs in IT than there are in economics.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Consumariat — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:58:11 GMT

As a proletarian I take issue with your utterly reprehensible characterization of the working masses and our condition as "the bottom". In fact we represent the very best of society and it is the shameless parasites and idlers to whom you bear a striking resemblance who are the bottom. The moral, honor-less, wretched bottom that will burn in hell upon judgement day, or else find itself in front of a wall with blindfolds on, when we, as your betters have decided enough is enough.

Do not bother apologizing either. There is no excuse.

Do take a lie down. There's a nice lad.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Marko — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:53:07 GMT

To repeat, I feel no animosity towards people on high incomes, I just see taxation as a practical response to the existence of excessive financial insecurity at the bottom.

As a proletarian I take issue with your utterly reprehensible characterization of the working masses and our condition as "the bottom". In fact we represent the very best of society and it is the shameless parasites and idlers to whom you bear a striking resemblance who are the bottom. The moral, honor-less, wretched bottom that will burn in hell upon judgement day, or else find itself in front of a wall with blindfolds on, when we, as your betters have decided enough is enough.

Do not bother apologizing either. There is no excuse.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

john walker — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:27:42 GMT

Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but who is Walter Block?

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Consumariat — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:46:04 GMT

You're right, there isn't necessarily hypocrisy. I don't know what I was on about and apologize, but you left a helluva bad taste in my mouth from that thread about welfare. I still don't get how you can defend his salary and at the same time want to confiscate it to redistribute to others. Maybe you don't begrudge his salary, but you obviously see some problem with it.

Thank you for your apology, and if I have pissed you off in the past with my approach, I also apologise. On the issue of his salary, it is not that I see a problem with it, it is that I believe we should have a basic safety net for those who fall on bad times. It is simply a matter of practicality that I support taxation on income as this is the only way I know that such a safety net can be provided. I do not wish to equalise incomes or punish people in any way for being rich. Far from it, I am glad that people are able to live comfortably and I hope that one day everyone will enjoy such opportunities. To repeat, I feel no animosity towards people on high incomes, I just see taxation as a practical response to the existence of excessive financial insecurity at the bottom.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Neodoxy — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:44:03 GMT

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

NonAntiAnarchist — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:34:11 GMT

You're right, there isn't necessarily hypocrisy. I don't know what I was on about and apologize, but you left a helluva bad taste in my mouth from that thread about welfare. I still don't get how you can defend his salary and at the same time want to confiscate it to redistribute to others. Maybe you don't begrudge his salary, but you obviously see some problem with it.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Consumariat — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:14:54 GMT

I said what I did because I spent hours drudging through a thread on welfare where Consumariat was calling us callous pricks (not in this language) for opposing redistribution.

Now he's here defending Block's 175k salary from criticism. He's an idiot and a hypocrite.

What's wrong with him earning lots of money? I don't like his politics, but don't begrudge him for being lucky enough to have a well-paid job.

Is confiscating a portion of his wealth more or less severe than begrudgeing him? (more) Do you support taxing him? (yes) Okay, then you're a hypocrite who's only purpose in this post is to dissent. Once again, no one cares what you think of his politics.

I don't begrudge him earning lots of money, and I don't begrudge him earning more money than me. Neither do I oppose taxation on either of us. How you see any contradiction or hypocarcy in this I don't know.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

fakename — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:14:28 GMT

My family makes 135000 but we only get like 55000 in real income after taxes.

But golly, sure glad that's the "price we pay for civilization" here in Canuckistan.

Where do you think the rest goes? It's not like Canada is so heavily populated/per square mile so the gov. isn't putting that $ in "internal improvements" (as if it could), and Canada doesn't have a military complex...

And why would people even work for six figures if it will be reduced to 5?

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Thisprogramhasnotbeenrated — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:18:01 GMT

My family makes 135000 but we only get like 55000 in real income after taxes.

But golly, sure glad that's the "price we pay for civilization" here in Canuckistan.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

NonAntiAnarchist — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:04:20 GMT

I said what I did because I spent hours drudging through a thread on welfare where Consumariat was calling us callous pricks (not in this language) for opposing redistribution.

Now he's here defending Block's 175k salary from criticism. He's an idiot and a hypocrite.

What's wrong with him earning lots of money? I don't like his politics, but don't begrudge him for being lucky enough to have a well-paid job.

Is confiscating a portion of his wealth more or less severe than begrudgeing him? (more) Do you support taxing him? (yes) Okay, then you're a hypocrite who's only purpose in this post is to dissent. Once again, no one cares what you think of his politics.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

ToxicAssets — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:46:53 GMT

thelion:

Good for Walter Block. I'm happy for him. Seriously, do you prefer him making less than random socialist bureaucrats?

The thing is that his salary is probably some incidental cost of the level set to the general salaries given to big shot academics.

And these big shots in academia are usually mouthpieces for a big bureaucratic government that directly or indirectly enhances their paychecks.

To every Block, there are at least 10 Krugmans making much more money and getting much more notability them him.

But I'm not complaining, just pointing out a fact.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Marko — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:13:47 GMT

Well it was appreciated by me, I thought it was a fun remark. Besides I don't think people should have thin skins like that, you can't begruge someone saying something that isn't wrong.

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

thelion — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:08:49 GMT

Good for Walter Block. I'm happy for him. Seriously, do you prefer him making less than random socialist bureaucrats?

Re: Walter Block makes $175k per year

Merlin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:04:51 GMT

Besides landing one’s self a spot as Ambassador, Academia is as good (monetarily speaking) as one can manage.