Why dont you give away your money to poor people?

[FourKing Hell]

Good point. Even if they needed a car, it would still be somehow 'wrong' for them to accept it. By accepting it, they would be choosing their own having a car over many others having bicycles/food/whatnot.

Maybe I should just use all my excess money to buy my (conscientious) neighbor a Porsche, and let the problem solve itself from there..

That is, if I don't blast it on high stakes NL first. But that's another subject for another day [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[imported_bingobazza]

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there is NO legal escape from paying taxes to the IRS.



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Sure there is.....if you use double taxation agreements to your advantage.

Bingo

[TomBrooks]

Most poor people are poor because they choose to be. If you gave them a lot of money, most of them would find a way to go through it and become poor again.

[shadow29]

""Because I hate poor people. I hate them, [Kane]. They're all so poor, and many of 'em talk funny, and don't have proper table manners...my father slaved away at the Fortune 500 company he inherited so that I could go to Choate, Brown and Harvard and see that this country isn't overrun by poor people and lesbians."

[Lawrence Ng]

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Alot of people around here are making alot of money. I am just curious why I dont see alot of threads about donating the majority of people's earnings to charity?

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Maybe because this is a poker strategy forum.

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Why do people buy Porsches and Jaguars when others are homeless?

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Because cars are nice to drive and giving cars to homeless people is not going to do much good if the homeless people don't know how to drive it.

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Why do we buy gold, when others are starving to death?

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Because gold is a pretty nice commodity to have and over the many years has been proven to be the one resource that all currency/commodities measure up against. I don't know about feeding poor people gold, they might choke on it don't ya think?

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Why arent you giving your money to poor people?

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I always give a quarter to the dancing midget clown at this local pub and he plays his little harmonica and dances like a leprechaun. I'm afraid if I give him a dollar, he'll dance all night and never stop which will piss off the other bar patrons.

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have you people no shame?

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No. I have no shame, but I do have a very good understanding that goes on with the logistics, economics, politics involved with the ordeals of world hunger, sickness and poverty that you clearly don't. You think it is all that easy to just give some poor people some money and that it is all a-ok don't you KKF? In reality, the difficulties and obstacles to really help other people on a monetary level are tremendous.

If you have not already, I suggest you join Red Cross or any credible international aid agency to see just how difficult it is to "give money to the poor."

Lawrence

[Piemaster]

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so you pay taxes to support these people or because you have to?


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Because I have to. And because twats like Bob Geldoff keep going round telling governments to take even more of my money and give it to the poor without my consent.

If I didn't pay taxes I would be far more receptive to the idea

[haarley]

How would turning otherwise gainfully employed people at Porsche and Jaguar into unemployed people help society?

[KaneKungFu123]

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there is NO legal escape from paying taxes to the IRS.



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Sure there is.....if you use double taxation agreements to your advantage.

Bingo

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on gambling winnings?

[revots33]

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Most poor people are poor because they choose to be. If you gave them a lot of money, most of them would find a way to go through it and become poor again.


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Yeah, those children in Africa dying of AIDS, malaria, and starvation - they really should show some initiative and open up a savings account or something.

I'm really hoping this post was just a joke - because if it's not, it may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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My wealth is not at the expense of the poor. The poor are not poor because I am rich. While poker is a zero sum game, life is not. Wealth is created. I feel sorry for a lot of people in the world -- but my money isn't going to do a damn thing for them. Getting away from liberals and socialists who preach income redistribution, zero sum economics and government solutions will help them.

There will always be poor -- as long as there are liberals.

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It must be tough being that retarded.

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Liberals don't cause poverty, but it is a myth that conservatives i.e. republicans do. Income redistribution has proved to not work. It's what we have been doing for the last century and it obviously doesn't work to cure poverty. Relying on govt. to take care of you = bad. Personal responsibility = good. I don't feel bad for a lot of poor people. They have chosen to live that way by not taking jobs that others (namely, immigrants) would die for. On the other hand, I feel terrible for homeless people who are out there because they are handicapped in some way, shape, or form. Some are blind, some are retarded, some have been abused, some are veterans that can no longer function in society. These are the people that the govt. needs to help. The others just need to get a [censored] job and stop having babies.

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This ain't the forum for political discussion, so all I'll say is that I never meant to imply that conservatives are responsible for poverty. But to blame liberals is just short of insane. Yes, if only we could get of nasty things like the minimum wage, we'd finally get rid of that poverty problem. Right. Finally, I'm also thinking of the poor not only in the US, but in other countries as well, of course.

Further discussion should be shunted to the Politics forum, where I will immediately commence ignoring it.