"The thing is, income inequality is due to some people working harder and selling more things," Paul told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "If people voluntarily buy more of your stuff, you'll have more money."So according to Rand Paul, who is a senator almost entirely because his pappy was able to bequeath to him his very own mailing list, the reason we have income inequality is because rich people sell things and poor people, as a poor life choice, don't. A school teacher, firefighter, bricklayer or coal miner might think they work very, very hard, but it pales in comparison to the indescribable backbreaking labor put in by, say, the various heirs to the Walmart fortune. George W. Bush, Donald Trump and Charles and David Koch had to put in long hours in sun-baked tomato fields to achieve their wealth and prominence; nobody handed them an elite education or a bankroll fat enough to overcome any adversity or a rolodex of America's most wealthy and powerful people, just to goose things along a bit. Rich people simply work harder.
So, dear poor people, what is wrong with you?
Do you think he's trolling us? I have to think so. The other possibility is that he is a complete and total dumbf--k, a grown adult man with no comprehension of the world around him and little apparent curiosity who just happened to land in one of the top political positions in the nation and is pretty sure he could run the whole show if given the chance.
He's gotta just be trolling us, right?
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