Raze said:
I wouldn't be worried about that. While some people are misguided about captialism being bad, etc, I think that most are pissed about big corporations like GE and Exxon not paying taxes at all. If everyone paid the same tax rate, say 25% of taxes, with NO other taxes - no property tax, no sales tax, etc, strictly only 25% of income, it would be balanced and equal. Equal, something this country hasn't known yet to date. If everyone was treated the same, people would have less to protest about. |
See that's where we disagree.
I think people are pissed because they are out of work/in debt/broke.
If like, Rick Perry becomes President and he forces through a flat tax, I think the occupy wallstreet movement would only start again. Or get bigger if it miraculiously stays around that long.
While if he became President, all the dumb corporate loopholes and stuff stuck around, but we dropped to about 6% unemployment, and regular person's debt is fixed... Then nearly everyone would declare victory go home and be happy with the current system.
Afterall, storys about corporations paying no taxes have been around for decades, people just didn't care though. Truth is, the people don't care now either, shit is just going bad for them and they want someone to blame.
Well outside of the real small core that helped kick things off anyway, but if you took all that core you could probably fit the entire group into one small sized colleges ranks with plenty of fillover.
It's worth noting that on it's highest day so far those camping out represented I believe are at most 0.02% of the population of the US.
If you want to combine that with the Tea Party... protestors that are 0.08% of the population...
you've got .1% of the population in your revolt numbers... since I'd imagine you would at least have to be willing to go to a protest to be willing to overthrow the government.
