Chairman-Mao said:
chocoloco said:
Chairman-Mao said:
Mr Khan said:
Chairman-Mao said:
Mr Khan said:
mrstickball said:
...And the savings would go to everyone in the 2/3rds to create new businesses to employ those needing the handouts?
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You mean go to the 1% that pay the most in income taxes, which they would then invest in speculative overseas markets and ponzi schemes
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I hope you were joking.
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Trickle down theory has been disproven, quite frankly. We don't need to be giving the rich more money when they have it better than they've had it in 70 years
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I'm not talking about the rich getting richer or anything like that, I'm just hoping you're joking about every person in the top 1% having offshore accounts and ponzi schemes. Not every rich person is a tax evading piece of crap you know.
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If you are in the top 1% of the richest people than you have billions of dollars, are you saying that you are amongst the most rich in Canada?
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Umm billions? According to 2005 income data (for the USA) it only takes $350,000 to be in the top 1% of earners. I think you might be confusing top 1% with top 0.01% or something like that.
And to answer your question, I'm only 19 and don't have an income, so I'm not among the richest in Canada; but my family is. Both my Grandpa and Father did really well in business and would be in the top 1% if we were American.
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These data suggest that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of families. The wealthiest 1 percent of families owns roughly 34.3% of the nation's net worth, the top 10% of families owns over 71%, and the bottom 40% of the population owns way less than 1%.
I was just curious if you grew up in a wealthy family or not. I do not think all rich men do no care about others, but I do think money creates power. And as the saying goes all power corrupts indefinantly. I do not necassarily believe that is always true, but there is something wrong in a world were the privilidged few have all the power and can maintain it by keeping wealth in the family.
I am sure you family worked hard, but that does not mean that every person is born into this world with equal oppurtunity.
