Gutfeld: We Have To Lose The Fear Of Defending Success, The Idea Of Feeling Guilty About Being Rich
FOX News ‘The Five,’ host Greg Gutfeld discussed greed and taxes. Gutfeld said that Americans should defend success and not feel guilt over being wealthy:
GREG GUTFELD: You know, what is greed here? Getting rich from hard work or taking from the rich who got there through hard work? The people who are talking, these agents of envy, are the greediest people you will ever meet. We have to lose the fear of defending success. No one is going to make me feel guilty for being rich because I’ve been poor. I’ve been poor. I’ve been rich. I like being rich. I want you to be rich. I want you to be really rich, richer than me, but I don’t want you to take it from me. I don’t want you to cheat. I don’t want you to steal. I want you to work hard for it. Work hard the way I did. And then you are really going to like it. And do not listen to these agents of envy. Our defense against them has always been handicapped by fear. There is nothing worse than a wealthy person who has worked five decades to get their, who will just sit there and take arrogant, self-indulgent attacks from some failed 27-year-old who took a class, who’s never done anything in their life, telling you ‘you are greedy,’ screw you. There is no stigma to success. I don’t know where we got this idea that you have to feel guilty about being rich. It is so funny. You pointed this out before, it used to be the millionaires, now because they all became millionaires including Bernie Sanders, they talk about billionaires, there are 2,000 of them, 4,000 of them? This is so stupid. There has only been one way to increase economic, I mean to lift people out of poverty, and it ain’t taxes. It’s never been taxes. It’s been economic growth, raises your overall income, increases productivity, jobs come and lowers the cost of goods. Who gets the ball rolling in that? Jeff Bezos. These wealthy people, they are the ones who put the money to get the ball rolling. Economic growth caused the largest reduction in poverty in history. It wasn’t taxes, it wasn’t equity or social justice, which is a lie. A complete lie, any time the government intervenes in an industry, that industry gets worse. Sure, health care wasn’t perfect before Obamacare, oh, but you wish you could go back to those days, don’t you? Don’t you? Anyway.
