There's no home for you here, girl, go away

[meldawen]

You know... I'm all for having a nice-sized house (even just a giant kitchen) and maybe even a pool. But people who own houses like this just make me sick

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[kiri427]

Jesus...

And I get stingy about my rent in the ghetto...

[br0ken_dolly]

well said.

there's a difference between "comfort" and ... well, crossing that line and flaunting.

and EVERYONE should have a right to clean water, a roof over their heads, healthy food in their tummies, and a chance to better themselves.

[tekende]

Really? And who should foot the bill for that right?

[meldawen]

I think the people who have the $70+ million homes could stand to pay some extra taxes. Not like they'd suffer much.

People should take care of one another. EVERYONE who can do so should be contributing to making sure everyone else's basic human needs are met.

[tekende]

The wealthy already do pay more taxes. It's not the taxing of poor people that keeps this country afloat, it's the tax money that comes from high-income people. People who can afford 70 million dollar homes probably pay several times more in taxes what you or I make in a year.

It'd be nice if everyone who could do so would help others, but the fact is that no one is under any sort of OBLIGATION to do so. Just because they can, doesn't mean they have to. When the government begins forcing people to help others, it stops being charity and becomes theft.

If someone makes enough money to buy a huge house like that and does so, more power to them. It's their money and they earned it; they can do what they want with it. I don't have a problem with it unless they're a hypocrite about it. And even then, I only have a problem with the hypocrisy, not the use of money.