Kasz216 said:
That wouldn't mean they were playing by different rules. Also I wouldn't say the rules are written that way, so much as, that's just how reality is. I mean, for example, school systems are built so smart people have an easier time getting good grades. It would take different rules for different people to make things not that way if anything. Hell we already have rules written against the rich and it still hasn't changed that way (ex. tax code). |
I said rules, and not laws, for a reason. The are rules they follow, which benefit them, and which average people don't follow. On the Law front, the tax code is structured to benefit the rich. If you incorporate, you take out your expenses before being taxed. The average joe has taxes out and their expenses are ignored. There are deductions, but they are fewer. Special interests and other groups with money, also write in tax breaks, get subsidies, and other advantages. And when the financial system broke down, it wasn't the average joe that got bailed out, it was banks, and other corpoprations, that got bailed out, like the auto industry. The average joe is used as a meat shield, to scare politicians that they might just get offed unless they get bailed out.
Also, take the case where top executives get contracts that pay them money if they are kicked out. They get millions of dollars. The average joe doesn't get those. They get downsized, and little if any money involved at all towards them. They also don't often get sign-on bonuses either. People on top get these.
