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In America,(1) everybody has a chance, it is up to them whether or not they will take it. Also, if you really were about equality, (2) you would be for a fair tax where everybody is taxed the same amount. You wouldn't be for the government stealing money from the rich to give to the poor (Or paying for votes with other people's money, or my personal favorite, (3)forcing everybody to be charitable) No, you would be for churches and non profits taking donations from the rich (who would inevitably donate more if they had more to give) and would be for the government staying out of our way and letting the natural system of capitalism work. /rant
(4)You may, but most of that upper bracket will re-invest in their business and as a result will grow jobs.
(5)So your idea of a functioning society is 11% unemployment (last time I checked , and that's not counting those who have part time jobs but are looking for full time, those who have stopped being eligeable for unemployment, and those who have given up looking for work, which also brought the total up to somewhere around 20%).
(6)I believe that allowing the capitalist system to work with minimal governmental interferance is the key to having a functional society.
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1. Everybody does have a chance. It's only called chance. Many of the rich in today's economy did not work for it, it was handed down to them from their parents, grand parents, and so on and so forth. That’s not saying that no one has gone from rags to riches, but those stories are few and far in between
2. Sorry, but if everyone was charged the same amount, no one would be able to pay for anything. What were our taxes in the 1950's? Those were one of our best times ever. 1990's? Again, one of our best times ever. The 50's had a ‘ Â income tax on the richest people in the U.S., and you know what happened? We flourished. Today? we tax our rich 5. We have THEM run THEM selves. We don't watch them. Of course we put little tickets here and there if the mess up, but still, they are self functioning. Have you ever heard of the main reason why we are in this mess?
Republicans probably will trace it back to when President Clinton signed a bill forcing lending companies to allow the poor to live in a home. What the Bill did not cover was what happened between 2000-2009, literally, that is when this whole thing started and ended (9 years it took). What happened was that lending companies were given these rules, but they were to follow their own when it came to picking who get's what and how much it will cost them. The committee to watch over these lending organizations? Non-governmental private groups. Now, private lenders had the ability to force these non-governmental private groups into doing what they needed them to do, making certain investments possible. Don’t believe me? Look up a non-partisan source.
Which brings me to the current conclusion of that history lesson, we, the poor, were allowed to take 200,000-400,000 dollar loans in order to pay for our houses. But with an income of only 20,000 a year, maybe 30,000 if lucky, this was all possible. Remember, the government willingly said it was ok to NOT watch these businesses. So the bubble began to become bigger and bigger.
3. If everyone was charitable, this would be an awesome world. But no one is. Do you know what amount of charity it would take to end world poverty? From High income countries only, they would need to basically donate 3-4 percent of their income. Do you know what the U.S. donates? .10 percent. that is just from government aid. When you look at actual charities, whoa doggy, you got to watch out. With the government AND charities combine, the U.S. donates .14 of our income to end poverty. So... I would gladly steal from the mouths of decadence.
You look at yourself and go, "God, my money is being taken to be given to the poor" but the poor need it more than you do.
4. Do you have ANY proof of the mass majority of the rich investing back into the U.S.? They won't invest in us for manufacturing, because they do so in China. They won't invest in us for education, because of schools systems are underfunded so the dropout rate in High School and Higher education is at a high. We look left and right for some solace, some place to invest, and you know where we need it? In our education. We will never be the producing country we once world, but our people should be the smartest. Now we are below the top ten most educated countries in the world. Why? because our people don't want to pay for education when it's put in the form of taxes, and then when you show the middle class and the poor how much private schooling costs, that isn't much of a answer either.
The rich do not invest in this country, and have not for the past twenty years. Because what they need to invest in is education, because it is our only way to stay at the top.
5. We would have a %9 national unemployment rate regardless of who was in power. And ya, we have a %9 unemployment rate. Now, I live in Vegas, so it isn’t hard to understand unemployment. We have the highest in the country. It isn’t hard to understand foreclosure rates either. But no one who has done their home work looks at Harry Reid and says, "you lost my house, you lowered my taxes, you lost my job," only those who have no where left to go and must blame someone on the way to poverty. It's how we deal with things, even though sadly it is how we vote too, with our emotions.
6. We are called a free enterprise. Look it up in a dictionary. We have been a free enterprise since Alexander Hamilton. Don't know who that is, please look him up. He's the reason for the hated taxes, and the reason this country is sovereign. Do you know what makes a country sovereign? It's being able to pay off one's debts. Whenever a country goes through a deep depression or recession, the one that can pay of its debts turns out the strongest.
