| SamuelRSmith said: Well, the introduction of a flat tax rate would benefit just about everybody, if set at the right level, excluding the top richest. I think the most important part out of all that, however, is the wealth of congress. Here's also an article displaying the individual wealths of all the Presidents: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/05/the-net-worth-of-the-us-presidents-from-washington-to-obama/57020/ The American political system needs to be reformed as to give people from all backgrounds a greater chance of getting into the top political positions. Publicly funded elections would be a start. As for the wealth statistics, I don't think they would be regarded as that bad if inflation wasn't so ugly, right now. It's inflation that's really hurting the bottom 80%, which is a result of a fiat monetary system... which is a result of the wealthy dominating the political system. |
I would think we've become more reasonably equal-opportunity over the years (and even the early . Certainly a lot of presidents were wealthy, but not by upbringing. Of the past fifty years, the only rich-kid presidents i can think of are the Bushes and Kennedy, possibly Ford and maybe Obama depending on how you look at it (his youth was a sort of well-heeled jet-setter thing, even though the actual cash money wasn't that up there)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
