Right now- In New York City, hundreds of protesters, emboldened by the growing national outcry against what they see as the greed of Wall Street, flooded past the fine homes of some of the country's richest, wealthiest residents Tuesday in a "Millionaires March."
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement stomped along the sidewalks of Manhattan's East Side, along world-famous streets like Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, stopping to jeer "Tax the rich!" and "Where's my bailout?" -Hold on a second- Is this the honest, humble, responsible way to get what we want?
NO it is not. Let's take a look at the next papragraph of this story:
They paused outside buildings where they said media mogul Rupert Murdoch, banker Jamie Dimon and oil tycoon David Koch had homes and expressed concern about how much less the wealthy will pay — and who would be harmed because of those lowered tax revenues — when New York's 2 percent "millionaires' tax" expires in December.
"I have nothing against these people personally; I just think they should pay their fair share of taxes," said Michael Pollack, 52, an office worker in a law firm. (That's reasonable!!!)
He held up a sign with a saying attributed to department store founder Edward Filene: "Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them." That is not cool.
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