Real Time with Bill Maher: Affluenza and the Culture of Dependency (HBO)

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In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher calls on Congress to end America’s culture of dependency…by taxing the inheritance of rich douchebags.
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[@ragazziita]

I tested negative for affluenza, but positive for poorlio.

[@toddmcguire5303]

That's brilliant!!!

[@blossomgonzales7410]

Hahaha good one!

[@wingsandash]

Brilliant.

[@peacewillhappen]

Thank you for this!

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

I tested negative for affluenzena too, but that's because I was raised to have common sense and brains, but I am poor though. I even grew up poor. My family was so poor, poor people talked about us.

[@n1kobefan]

The Pawn " The harder I work, the sooner I become king " The King " The harder he works, the longer I am king "

[@kellykitkat40]

It stands to reason that if bureaucratic organizations resemble pyramids, or mountains, not everybody is going to get promoted, but find themselves being shuffled around on the same level, to stave off the boredom.

[@kellykitkat40]

And what if, like how some employ two sets of books, the organization chart shown, may not be the true one? "I work here, and I own this place. So, who's in charge?" The cons' piracy?

[@kellykitkat40]

It is written that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, but when it came to governing the people of Israel, it was father-in-law Jethro, who gave him 'the answer' : a top down command structure, where responsibilities are delegated in the context of a strong central government ... This sounds like most democratic nations, and the feudal kingdoms that preceded them... makes me wonder how bizarre the Egyptian government was that Moses could not, would not, use it as the basis for how to govern the Israelites.

[@kellykitkat40]

Jethro warned that the only way that that government would, could function, would be if Moses could find men who hated covetousness to occupy those offices. But most US politicians seem to use politics to make themselves wealthy. Bernie Sanders may be an exception. But did he give back all that money he raised, or offer it to Hillary, when he dropped out of the race?

[@mckenzie.latham91]

The peasants allow kings cause they dream of living in castles.

[@NMC21887]

The way Bill emphasizes the word, “fuckface” when describing the Hilton kid is pure artistry.

[@PaddyCollector]

Another interesting fact is that the founding fathers were in favor of an inheritance tax. They did not want a new landed gentry to form in the USA as it had in england. Where wealthy land owners could keep their wealth in their families forever thus creating a separate class of the permanently rich.

[@canadiandrumer]

you don't really understand how the early US politicians envisioned government working if you think that they would have approved of a federal tax seizing what had been legally earned from being passed down after death

[@PaddyCollector]

From the VERY FIRST google search result. why don't you do some research you lazy ignorant fuck. "If there was one thing the Revolutionary generation agreed on - and those guys who dress up like them at Tea Party conventions most definitely do not - it was the incompatibility of democracy and inherited wealth. With Thomas Jefferson taking the lead in the Virginia legislature in 1777, every Revolutionary state government abolished the laws of primogeniture and entail that had served to perpetuate the concentration of inherited property. Jefferson cited Adam Smith, the hero of free market capitalists everywhere, as the source of his conviction that (as Smith wrote, and Jefferson closely echoed in his own words), "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural." Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death." The states left no doubt that in taking this step they were giving expression to a basic and widely shared philosophical belief that equality of citizenship was impossible in a nation where inequality of wealth remained the rule. North Carolina's 1784 statute explained that by keeping large estates together for succeeding generations, the old system had served "only to raise the wealth and importance of particular families and individuals, giving them an unequal and undue influence in a republic" and promoting "contention and injustice." Abolishing aristocratic forms of inheritance would by contrast "tend to promote that equality of property which is of the spirit and principle of a genuine republic." Others wanted to go much further; Thomas Paine, like Smith and Jefferson, made much of the idea that landed property itself was an affront to the natural right of each generation to the usufruct of the earth, and proposed a "ground rent" - in fact an inheritance tax - on property at the time it is conveyed at death, with the money so collected to be distributed to all citizens at age 21, "as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property." Even stalwart members of the latter-day Republican Party, the representatives of business and inherited wealth, often emphatically embraced these tenets of economic equality in a democracy. I've mentioned Herbert Hoover's disdain for the "idle rich" and his strong support for breaking up large fortunes. Theodore Roosevelt, who was the first president to propose a steeply graduated tax on inheritances, was another: he declared that the transmission of large wealth to young men "does not do them any real service and is of great and genuine detriment to the community at large.'' www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_and_founding_fathers

[@AgeOfSuperboredom]

PaddyCollector The founding fathers: bunch of socialist commies. Seriously though, I'm surprised and disappointed Bill didn't bring this up in his monologue.

[@mortalhellion]

***** I hate you.

[@alonzowashington8051]

Superb defense and counter dude!

[@sjoyce100]

"I didn't know boundaries because my parents didn't give me any" Sending him to prison where he can learn boundaries would be the solution.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Oh you're going to love this… so Couch got off under the condition that he is on a 10-year probation and couldn't drink...well apparently getting off with four counts of murder went to the asshole's head so he was caught drinking at a party and violating his probation… he then skipped town and failed to meet his parole officer, turns out his mom took him over the Mexican border to a resort, where they both were apprehended and sent back, he now is serving 2 years in prison…

[@hoffer54]

@@mckenzie.latham91 Good! But not near enough!

[@kgius7434]

@@mckenzie.latham91 2 years, are you fucking kidding me, je doesnt even gets assfucked at a Low sentence prison

[@larryharbinla3652]

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[@somestrayan4682]

"It makes you wonder.. why can't we book this kid on a Malaysian Airline?" HAHA BRUTAL

[@Zeldarw104]

Some Strayan savage & i love it!👍

[@BassPlayerSusan]

So true.

[@Dead8Artist]

Hilarious .

[@johngreen2468]

can you explain what he means by that ? i guess i miss some cultural context or something

[@ToMi-bm5hh]

@@johngreen2468 Malaysia has VERY strict laws in regard to drugs including the soft drugs. For example possession of 200 g (cca seven ounces) or more cannabis is considered trafficking with mandatory sentence of death by hanging. They don´t care where are you from, or who your daddy is. Westerners (UK, Australia) have been hanged for drug trafficking in Malaysia. For smaller amounts you can get years or a lifetime in prison. Also in Malaysia they like to add caning in addition to any prison time..., it is referred to as "whipping", but they use rattan canes and it is pretty savage, they have specially trained officers for this job. In reality the Hilton family would be probably able to pull some serious ropes and use diplomatic routes to save their young heir from the worst, but the process would take some time and meanwhile that spoiled Hilton brat would have experienced things he only had seen in movies before.

[@elocfreidon]

The affluenza thing just blows my fucking mind every time.

[@writerconsidered]

The irony is amazing too. The parents fail to teach the kid boundaries then the justice system fails to teach him boundaries. Something tells me the parents continued their boundless lifestyle and overreached it into the courthouse with money to judges and prosecutors alike.

[@Raphanne]

It blows my mind too. If anything, coming from a very wealthy family and doing something that stupid is kind of worse in my opinion. You're rich, you have access to the best education available, and you still do something that reckless? You have absolutely no excuse. Why isn't there that argument for poor people? They grow up in a tough environment with statistically more crime, and they don't get access to as many opportunities as rich people.

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

How long before Republicans push for a Constitutional Amendment to make Affluenza a sacred and most-cherished American right? That's what Jesus would've wanted.

[@Raphanne]

KillAllTheRednecks I am French and I can confirm this.

[@taylorlucius9227]

"Ignorance is bliss"

[@alexandrorocca7142]

Americans fought the British royalty and Canadians did not, yet it seems that monarchy has left more nostalgics in the USA. People fear socialism, but apparently the majority is OK with aristocracy and oligarchy.

[@theuglykwan]

+Alexandro Rocca They fear it in name but love their socialist programs.

[@alexturlais8558]

Bennett McCoy social security, medicare, medicaid, the military, ect

[@theuglykwan]

+Bennett McCoy Social Security, Farm Subsidies, Corporate Welfare, Healthcare, Transportation eg. Amtrak, Minimum wage, Food stamps, Disability, Uemployment, scholarships,

[@williamfrancis5367]

Decades of red baiting have ensured the achievements of liberals are now seen as socialist. Winston Churchill, an extremely anti-socialist politician, was a key figure in the implementing the first welfare programmes in the UK, would probably be a socialist in the eyes of the US right.

[@mrnonsense1031]

The definition of irony

[@roomie4rent]

I have a guaranteed cure for this "affluenza" malady. Have the victim's families sue the Couch family for everything they're worth. Once the Couchs are reduced to abject poverty - homeless and rotting in the streets - the symptoms of affluenza should gradually begin to subside.

[@teenagerinsac]

But the lawyers wont go for that, their paydays will come to an end if we do that! :(

[@needsmetal]

they tried but the case was dismissed

[@ExodusPessoa]

ha ha ha ha good one roomie4rent

[@A86]

***** - In that case I have an even better guaranteed cure for "Affluenza" - Mrs. Guillotine.

[@markkond8565]

+A86 It's 'Madam' Guillotine. She's a lady, after all.

[@snirks8635]

personally, being a government employee. ..I find it offensive to work for years with no raises and yet watch upper management cheer about raises they receive for staying UNDER budget!!!!

[@aokspage]

the fix is in

[@harrykuheim6107]

You Government Employees completely sat out the Down Sizing Fad after '08....Obama has done nothing but make the Federal Government Bigger and set Race relations back 60 years...

[@avinashreji60]

Harry Kuheim Wtf is in your head Alex Jones?

[@hoffer54]

@@avinashreji60 or RUSH!

[@ekathe85]

@jayk legendary Yeah. God forbid you do work despite a low wage because you think you're helping society.

[@moonlily1]

Who knew there could be a Hilton (or a person) douchier than Paris?

[@rolandodennis8385]

My single, two job working, hitchhiking mom got food stamps and welfare for us when I was a kid. My mom and I were able to EAT and put some clothes on my back. I grew up to serve in the military, went to college, and became a teacher to give back to the community. Government assistance helped feed and give me clothes. People need it. Not everyone is honest about taking welfare, but don't punish people who really need it to survive.

[@shannonrichardson3405]

Jose Luis Caceres wow! You truly are a piece of shit!

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Conservative mentality seems to be just the thought of anyone or any “group” they don't like and or just in general taking any cent of money from them (even though they hate and often don't pay full taxes and cheat the system to pay even less) falsely to be enough reason to literally slash and do away with all programs and institutions that help people simply to sit ehe small percentage if even that of people who are scamming the system meanwhile they argue that you cannot hold all people of one class and or people of their groups accountable for the actions of a few.

[@cmdmd]

Hear hear.

[@JustinStrife]

For every story like yours, how many stories are there of absolute abuse?

[@mac102483]

@@JustinStrife per every study done on that exact thing. Very little. The studies showed the VAST majority of ppl on public assistance need it and do not abuse it. I don't understand why that is always a response to helping others. There is exponentially way more legitimate taxes NOT being paid by the rich in this country than any sort of social program is being abused. Why do we disect, attack, and over police the pennies spent on our most vulnerable and ignore the ppl circumventing the law and doing the most damage? I don't understand this logic.

[@starvetodeath123]

"The upper class get all of the money, pay none of the taxes. The middle class do all of the work and pay all of the taxes. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class." - George Carlin. Edited: I bungled up the original quote.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Benzene I miss George

[@happysmile6095]

William Chamberlain mann who doesn’t? At least he is just as relevant today. Although I would love to hear “current” material

[@hoffer54]

@@happysmile6095 "They" took care of him, he was getting a little too close!

[@vickilawrence7207]

Profound! I miss George Carlin. He was an epic truth teller!

[@suzanne48]

Except the poor do work. They work their fingers to the bone for shit wages. They work 2 or more shit jobs & are still broke & poor. But their fkn bills are paid.

[@Professicchio]

Welcome to America: the country that brought nobilty back into fashion BIG TIME!

[@bedwenchingwithbenifits4553]

Do true

[@bedwenchingwithbenifits4553]

+Emily Asgard so*

[@hellohithereyep8530]

+Professicchio Thank you, US Government!

[@Professicchio]

+Hellohithere Yep You're welcome, servant!

[@hellohithereyep8530]

Professicchio Are you from the US Government?

[@CharlieBarbarossa]

Probably Bill's best rant. Damn, he was at the top of his game here.

[@lindaleelaw5277]

Im a low income senior ( not by choice), and the issue is hunger. Every senior should get $300 a month. period.

[@Monochromicornicopia]

The real problem here is that our justice system is split in two. Poor people get thrown in jail and shafted, while rich people get away with whatever they want.

[@cloudsweapon567]

'Why couldn't he have been on a Malaysian airlines?' That was an awesome comment

[@ricky5369]

update: in 2016 the texas teenager at the end went back to jail after violating probation.

[@metteksnebjerg5062]

Bill Maher is a true pleasure to see and listen to. I love to watch it every day.

[@Pokadot101]

So true, and so depressing.

[@hemidas]

2:08 200 years ago those used to be the last words before the guillotine would fall.

[@Xhanthan]

And 199 years ago, there was the rise of new plutocrats

[@mikekrazer6122]

Jovan Mitrić Exactly!the good ol days when aristocracy was messy and you could slip poison into your shitty brothers soup and save the kingdom

[@myklmusic]

Jovan Mitrić Just one good ass whipping. That's all.

[@ludekosicka6540]

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. - George Bernard Shaw

[@vahidhamoon]

really realy love you Bill Maher ... From Kabul , Afghanistan

[@DanielDiaz-sl5pu]

Bill Maher brings out the worst of this country and I love it

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

Allow me to rephrase… Bill Maher does not “bring out the worst” in this country - he CALLS it out! And yes, I love it…

[@TempestTossedWaters]

Bill is right that the hypocrisy is astounding in complaining about the effects of free money while being for people getting inheritances, aka free money. Why not tax inheritance progressively? Wouldn't that solve the getting 100 million for free problem but still allow some savings to be passed on.

[@Rockownz5150]

Hannu Marijarvi "Wouldn't that solve the getting 100 million for free problem but still allow some savings to be passed on."Wouldn't simply taking all the money away from rich people solve a lot of problems? Hell, the US could fix its infrastructure by bullying other countries to give their money or else. The gov. could also force people to do the work, too. The question is would that be the right thing to do and the obvious anwer is "no, fuck off, it's not your money".

[@BigHeadPodcast]

Rockownz5150 Well technically it is, seeing as how they print it and have faces of former leaders on them and all...just sayin.

[@TempestTossedWaters]

Rockownz5150 Property rights are a useful heuristic for achieving individual well-being, it's a good like many others that we can sometimes trade off against other goods in certain tried and tested ways like taxes. Society is about priorities. What are your priorities: Would you rather have a hereditary aristocracy where inheritances are not taxed, because that's what happens without estate taxes, or would you rather have a more meritocratic society where inheritances are taxed so that people's lives are not so much determined by the amount of wealth they inherit? To me the answer to the question appears quite self-evident.

[@Rockownz5150]

Hannu Marijarvi I can see the merit in it. I can also see the merit in breaking peoples knee caps to fund cancer research. Does that make it right, though? The money owned by, say, Warren Buffet, is neither yours, nor society's, it's his. He gets to decide what to do with it. I don't see why you deserve to get a cut on his decision. In any case, the rich will just find a way to go around the tax. As they should.

[@TempestTossedWaters]

Rockownz5150 You can see the merit in breaking people's knee caps to fund cancer research??? People's right to bodily integrity is a much higher one than the right to receive unearned income in the form of inheritance. If you view property rights as something one is never in any way on a societal level allowed to trade off in favour of other goods that would mean you'd think it immoral to do anything to prevent the formation of an aristocracy and the death of meritocracy, a deeply confused view of morality. Freedom is one good among many, albeit an especially important one. In addition to freedom, we value things like happiness, health, prosperity, friends, family, love, knowledge, art, and justice. Sometimes we have to trade off one of these goods against another. For example, a witness who has seen her brother commit a crime may have to decide between family and justice when deciding whether to testify. A student who likes both music and biology may have to decide between art and knowledge when choosing a career. A food-lover who becomes overweight may have to decide between happiness and health when deciding whether to start a diet. People sometimes act as if there is some hierarchy to these goods, such that Good A always trumps Good B. But in practice people don't act this way. For example, someone might say "Friendship is worth more than any amount of money to me." But she might continue working a job to gain money, instead of quitting in order to spend more time with her friends. And if you offered her $10 million to miss a friend's birthday party, it's a rare person indeed who would say no. In reality, people value these goods the same way they value every good in a market economy: in comparison with other goods. If you get the option to spend more time with your friends at the cost of some amount of money, you'll either take it or leave it. We can then work backward from your choice to determine how much you really value friendship relative to money. Just as we can learn how much you value steel by learning how many tons of steel we can trade for how many barrels of oil, how many heads of cabbages, or (most commonly) how many dollars, so we can learn how much you value friendship by seeing when you prefer it to opportunities to make money, or see great works of art, or stay healthy, or become famous. Freedom is a good much like these other goods. Because it is so important to human happiness and virtue, we can expect people to value it very highly.

[@pauldelgadillo1827]

Happened in my family. Had two uncles who became multimillionaires in the real estate boon here in Southern California after WWII. They gave their kids trust funds. All the sons ended up drugged out and messed up and only one of he daughters worked. I also know that one of my cousins actually got away with shooting at a passing car because Daddy had the money and political connections to get him off.

[@geoffdearth8575]

Paul Ryan's a great one to talk about not working: He who has about 15 minutes' experience of working in the private sector. Not to mention collecting SSI when his dad died and using the money to go to college.

[@waynestani7384]

Bill I dont agree with your social issues sometimes or attack on Christians but many times also you just nail it.

[@kidpisot]

It has always been a mystery to me why people vote for lawmakers that create laws that benefit the rich. Seriously, vote them out!

[@robinsparkles14]

Bless you, Bill. I adore this.

[@voteindependentforindepend7181]

Isn't it about time the rich remembered what its like to fear the peasants?

[@sandramohammed2173]

Yeah french revolution style

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

Time to bust out some pitchforks and torches…

[@vahidhamoon]

love you bill maher

[@lenniegodber7805]

Affluenza? wow Only in America could that shit work

[@egyptcleo2011]

monokhem well actually, in 1st world countries except the US that isn't possible, because other countries don't have different laws from state to state. The only laws that differ are the small ones like how the school system should teach etc. If the US had the crazy laws from different states as a federal law. They wouldn't even be considered as a part of the democratic world.

[@egyptcleo2011]

monokhem Corruption of course is everywhere, but only in the US someone could get away with it publicly without consequence.

[@egyptcleo2011]

monokhem what is nakedly stupid? I live in Europe(Germany). And I was talking about 1st World Countries. And I have been to the US. Like I said Corruption is everywhere... ours is just not public, because you get in jail if you get caught. There are assholes here but they either get caught or they don't.

[@egyptcleo2011]

-.- in the 1st world... I said in the 1st.. again... and stop with the name calling. and again... I said publicly... that means that I see the corruption but it is not out in the open, understood? You don't know me. So don't just assume you know what I DO or DON'T do. Thank you very much and fyi: if you have the need to have a constructive debate with sm then don't start it this way. You seem to be one of those people that just comes into KZbin to let some steam of. Go to therapy for that.

[@egyptcleo2011]

hhhhh... Russia... my dear, is NOT one of the 1st World Countries,.... And you called me "stupid" before and what does it matter if you had called me that now or earlier... you are still being childish in the way you are handling it. Please just stop for your own sake...

[@8eege]

Rich kids are the one group that I admit I am prejudiced against. It comes mostly from jealousy, I really wish my dad was a billionaire.

[@Alxmir23]

same,but not to go out and spend a fuckton and insults other people but to buy a place far away from anyone and never needing to work with them ever again

[@nate5749]

Brian J finally someone had the balls to admit what everyone is feeling and where everyone's discrimination comes from. Wish I had a millionaire dad or even a dad to begin with, but I don't hate.

[@jamakasis18]

Rukkiss OFFICIAL Not entirely. You can be jealous, but what pisses off is that inheritors often (like 99 percent of the time) feel like they ARE better than you, because they have the cash. When the matter of fact is that they are mostly such degraded, zero IQ fuck faces, that without their daddies the only thing they would be good for is collecting your trash in the mornings.

[@nate5749]

lol true

[@richardhines8622]

Your lying .

[@jar546]

What's sad is that only 600,000 people saw this on youtube and it should be in the millions

[@jacksonvalad5957]

This guy was making fun of trump even before he started running for president

[@rynegreen7902]

Jackson Valad well he did sue him for 5 million dollars so I can understand why he would do that

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Yeah it's almost like Donald trump was known and considered a joke before 2015. apparently a lot of people in America were to stupid or lazy to use google.

[@CloudsGirl7]

Because Drumpf has always been an idiot. They difference now is that bigger spotlight he's always wanted.

[@devonlindsay4007]

Shouldn't that have been a red flag or at least a butt joke

[@lking1540]

Cappy guy, great president.

[@xFirebird925x]

Huh Trump? I thought he had "a small loan of a million dollars" from his dad to start off. I wish I had that kind of money.

[@miuramike8310]

+xFirebird925x It was actually a "small loan" of over 200 million dollars AND all the real estate & banking connections his father had. The more you know about Trump, the less likely you will be able to keep from vomiting. Anyone who votes from him is either too lazy to do any research, or they deny facts. Believing any politician at face value is unwise, if not downright ignorant, but Trump is so beyond offensive and dishonest there really is no comparison. And since he has a strong dislike for anyone who threatens his overblown ego, who he picks for his Vice President ought to be a real trip. Sarah Palin would gladly blow him daily for that job!

[@xFirebird925x]

Miura Mike Yea I know about the 200mil. I'm just saying 1 million because that was what Drumpf said in an interview.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

over 200 million, as well as a lifetime of daddy co singing his loans and expenses as well as paying off his debts and leaving him an already functioning and established real estate empire. clearly a self made business genius.

[@largominus2011]

This country fought them and now this country worships them. Now certain factions of this country wants vote one in. Oligarchy anyone? I thought the Revolutionary war was fought for a reason. How far we have fallen.

[@CanuckFluter]

Thank you, Bill. Keep this conversation going!

[@paulavery5889]

I always loved how Bill Maher ends his jokes. The tone of voice is perfect lmao

[@Thanoric]

The thing I find hilarious, is that the federal estate tax "death tax" only started applying after the first 5.4 million dollars. And even then, it was a percent, not all of it. The great majority of Americans will not own 5.4 million in assets when they pass away, and when I went to school I was told on average, even if I got a PHD, I was probably only looking to earn 4.6 million dollars in my lifetime working (was 6 or so years ago, so scale with inflation). So yea, really shows where we are going as a country. They have the poor defending the rich for their right to be rich. Got a perfect system.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Exactly, The estate tax exemption is 5.43 million$ per person. Meaning, your dad could leave your that much and it not be taxed and you mom could too. The rest is a sliding scale, withe highest rate being 40%. Very few small business, families, and or family farms in America are actually worth 5.43 million$. Meaning only those who can afford it/ make enough to be taxed will be affected. but then again peasants defend kings cause they dream of living in castles.

[@Cyfix15]

the Afluenza defense is no fucking joke, that was it for me. it was that court case that made me lose faith in the justice system in america. "Afluenza" literally means that if you are rich, it is unreasonable to jail you for murder; because you don't know any better BECAUSE you are too rich to have ever considered the consequences of your actions

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Oh you're going to love this… so Couch got off under the condition that he is on a 10-year probation and couldn't drink...well apparently getting off with four counts of murder went to the asshole's head so he was caught drinking at a party and violating his probation… he then skipped town and failed to meet his parole officer, turns out his mom took him over the Mexican border to a resort, where they both were apprehended and sent back, he now is serving 2 years in prison…

[@Evandrosab]

Bill Maher is the best!!

[@husseysa6482]

The Great man Bill Maher

[@patbrennan6572]

when we don`t tax the rich, the poor get poorer.bad news is , ``it will never change``.

[@bigbaws5412]

Rich people control government. The average person doesn't give two fucks coz they're miseducated and misdirected.

[@VaticansHolocaust]

That sounds like something preached in the USSR (where are they now?)

[@harrykuheim6107]

The Kennedy's are filthy Rich Big Baws.....JFK was by far.... leaps and bounds.... THE RICHEST man ever Elected President....I wonder why the Kennedy's just don't give all that money away to the Poor people they are always trying to help?

[@steveconner4791]

Wrong, the Bush family.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

"That sounds like something preached in the USSR (where are they now?)" in control of Russia sicne putin is an ex kgb colonel who said the greatest civilization was the USSR.

[@christatum4449]

sean penn laughing ha ha

[@truthhurts3524]

Sean Penn turning red from laughing is the best! 🤣

[@JasonGafar]

When Bill said "fuck face" I almost vomited from laughing so hard.

[@Shame85]

Gahhh, I hope that rotten kid got punched and learned some humility.

[@ireniakristina]

This makes me love Bernie Sanders even more!!! It's time for a revolution!

[@alexmatchett4769]

Love you bill.the problem with your argument is that with people living long lives,loads of people live until 80,people would have to work to about

[@60misty]

I love this guy at least he says what everyone else thinks keep up the great work

[@gamesman0118]

While I will say not all rich people are douches there is a large group of them who are. I worked (at different times) with a couple of family businesses and the ones who never had to work were the biggest douches. The ones who were given a cushy job were a little better but the ones who worked their way up on merit were generally good people.

[@khongorshatar4816]

This makes me wonder, maybe Socialists are right.

[@hithereman4198]

Joe Mutt Preach!

[@Monochromicornicopia]

Khongor Shatar America is already socialist. What do you think taxes are? Its the redistribution of wealth.

[@Monochromicornicopia]

w9j15g What? I think you misunderstood my comment.

[@Monochromicornicopia]

w9j15g Again, I think you misinterpreted my original comment.

[@MarshallJukov]

+Monochromicornicopia Capitalism is about redistribution of wealth. Socialism is about keeping wealth to those who makes it, the workers. Surplus value.

[@khalidamajoud4114]

Sean Penn's reaction is priceless...

[@ranman6896]

This is the best one.

[@molagballin_]

Watching shit like this makes me so happy I live in the glorious socialist democracy of Norway.

[@hrsqsiest]

Ok, you don't have to rub salt in the wound.

[@g0679]

Peter B Jordanson ... I’d like to move to Scandinavia, or to one of several nations in the EU. Once I figure out how, I’ll be gone in a flash. And I’ve felt this way for a long time, not just since a total dipshit became the US government’s chief executive.

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Afluenza isn't just something that happens on an individual level. The majority of the world recognizes the "I'm rich so fuck you" attitude in the actions of the United States.

[@dkupke]

CJusticeHappen21 “The Ugly American,” the title of a photograph snapped during the Batista regime of Cuba; the picture shows a vacationing US citizen in obscenely low cut shorts, pot belly hanging over, beaming at the camera as he hoists two bottles of liquor and chomps on a cigar. To Cuba’s impoverished people the picture came to symbolize their experience with the US-not as a role model or capitalist utopia, but as obnoxious and arrogant tourists who regarded Cuba as little more than a playground.

[@bradkirsch368]

NAILED IT!

[@margaritashamrakov1799]

Amazing monologue

[@jessicalynncolter3629]

shouldn't influenza work the other way too? Trailer trash parents didn't teach him right from wrong.

[@jaelynnzee9091]

+Jessica Lynn Colter well, there are plenty of docus out there that show just that!

[@LambertBowden56]

The middle class are probably the most down to earth of the three.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

yeah except the trailer trash can't pay for the judges new yacht and or house so no dice.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

They already are the ones who most likely end up in prison or murdered. The problem is that in large sections of the country unemployment rates are very high while getting into college is too expensive

[@creamybass]

taxing inheritance at 100% is preposterous

[@INFERNO.224]

***** yeah because you know tho rich assholes are so appreciative, its not rude of them to call people peasants and shittin on them. That's where the problem lies, those kids don't deserve shit.

[@creamybass]

yeah so how about an exponential increase in inheritance tax based on the total amount. taxing 100% of ALL inheritance is retarded.

[@lastdingo]

Not quite preposterous, but impractical. Inheritance taxation can be evaded by making gifts before passing away. A 100% gift tax is nonsense since it in turn can be evaded by traded with inflated pricing, thus a 100% inheritance tax is impractical.

[@creamybass]

Jürgen Sven Fuchs different word same implication

[@joseph4861]

Agreed, but 98% is doable.

[@eyeseer1]

2:28 The irony behind entitled wealth who steal what they "make", proving that great wealth comes from a great crime.

[@18sidharth]

Love this guy!!

[@DiedrichKnickerbocker1783]

Watching this is video again.

[@kolian98]

Brilliant

[@emilmili3448]

Affluenza haha,we don't have it yet in europe ...but who knows maybe in the future :))

[@Winterstick549]

I'll never stay in a Hilton, or Hilton owned hotel ever again. They own other names such as Hampton, Double Tree, Homewood and many more, so Google before laying your money down for Conrad's inheritance.

[@jaccitera9604]

conrad hilton was charged with interfering with flight crew members and faced up to 20 years in prison. Feb. 2015 The charge was reduced and carried up to six months in prison, but prosecutors will recommend probation...May 2015

[@lianastanley8654]

I wish your lived and broadcasted in Australia luv you politics and humanity x x x

[@lianastanley8654]

Luv you Bill x x

[@nicholas8479]

There is dignity in work. Try not working and see how you feel. Most people want to contribute and have a purpose.

[@sammangino7137]

The Malaysian joke was GREAT!!!

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

This is the lesson I hope we ALL learn from this experience, rather than waste time and valuable resources on revenge. Nothing worthwhile is accomplished through malice.

[@jimbeaver27]

Ok I don't get estate taxes, everything and all the money a person has at death has ALREADY BEEN TAXED. Governments love this tax because nobody has complained and the person is dead so he can't complain. Your house and property - you paid taxes on the money you earned to build and buy it, then you paid taxes on building materials and real estate, then you paid property taxes, and more I'm forgetting. Screw estate taxes.

[@pkwan970]

Jim Davis 1) estate taxes do not impact 99.99% of Americans 2) 5 million dollars of the estate is 100% tax free 3) rich people already dodge estate taxes with phony trusts of all the things to bitch about.....how about tax cuts for the Americans who are alive? and do not have over 5 million to hand to their kids????

[@pettypettywoodchuck2]

Your estate has to be over $5,250,000 million to even be taxed. Its for fuckface hilton, pal, not you.

[@Nerdamania]

You are equally fuckfaced as the fuckface konrad. You fuckfaced rabbit (jim davis) do not know a shit about estate tax and margy, Socialism has to be the mechanism to balance out the downsides of capitalism. Otherwise, chaos.

[@FGP_Pro]

You aren't paying the estate tax, because you will be dead. The people who are inheriting your estate are paying the estate tax, because it's new income to them that they have not been taxed on. And, that's the way it should be. When ever anyone makes money in this country OUR government should get a cut, because it is our government that makes it possible to make that money. Comprehend?

[@2Majesties]

There's always at least one numbskull in the crowd.

[@geoffdearth8575]

Sean Penn's reaction is priceless.

[@BrockCollins]

That Leo impression at 3:01 was on point

[@barbaralynnjoy3840]

Rent Airbnb’s, all these hotel chains have rude obnoxious owners.

[@CloudsGirl7]

"I could get you all fired in five minutes... I know your boss." = "MY DAD WORKS AT NINTENDO"

[@jaydentownsend5402]

3:07 Amen to that.

[@donaldwilliamson4150]

Damn bill you the man

[@lianastanley8654]

Luv you Bill

[@shadownor]

Bill is so right

[@lelandgrover9036]

This was the Era when Bill Maher did Real Time monologs on issues that actually matter before he turned into Adam Carolla.

[@sandybutt9898]

Pure genius.

[@ddivincenzo1194]

@1:36 Sean is barely keeping it together🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!!

[@josoverthehill]

Wow, bet even Maher didn't know how prescient he was with THIS commentary about DT.

[@ladyvincenza]

That Hilton brat flies commercial? :)

[@fclavijo]

good job Maher

[@michelez715]

Bill, you made these stories up, right? I just CAN'T believe them!

[@Kalahridudex]

2:10 Did he also call the flight attendant a mudblood?

[@JordiVanderwaal]

Sir you have my like after that Malaysian Airline joke.

[@octaviancaesarhibernicus4447]

That Hilton kid would make any dad proud.

[@TheNishja]

Every video i see, this guy speaks my mind,what an amazing guy,great ideology.Then again i hope he wan't paid to have these ideologies would be even worse to know that,But seeing from little i can,he seems like a good citizen,society needs more people like him.

[@GreyException]

Fun thought... more money has been made through exploitation and manipulation in comparison to money that has been made through "hard work".

[@kevinkeating1394]

U r da best ball breaker. Ever so funny

[@adityask277]

2:15 hilarious😂😂😂

[@DrJG9]

0:57 where indeed! 2:22 good one!

[@julienl9821]

2021 update. Conrad was sentenced to prison.

[@supertuber59]

Oh Bill, you're such a sophist.