Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution

[LOD01 198]

This country has too many fat lazy losers for a revolution to happen here.

[Me_2006 14]

Where am I?

 

 

 

Good thread. I'm learning a lot, actually.

[Frank M 181]

This country has too many fat lazy losers for a revolution to happen here.

 

I was going to say something like that. As long as there's TV, it won't happen.

[penultimatestraw 473]

NewbieJr, I am beginning to feel sorry for you.

 

I was "Replying to Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution". It has nothing to do with the NFL lockout but I don't think I have the right to take the owner’s or the player’s wealth.

 

You didn't answer my question, why do you feel entitled to take the wealth accumulated by the rich?

I think your use of the word "accumulated" rather than earned is helpful in understanding the issue. While supply and demand certainly fuels some of the pay disparity, there is also a component that is arbitrary. Wage differences are perceived by the worker bee to be unfair when CEOs get raises while underlings' wages are stagnant or cut. A big part of the arbitrary portion of the paycheck is based on greed and manipulation by those in power IMO. Whether punitive tax hikes for the elite will change this is another matter…as is trusting the government to use the $ intelligently.

 

At the most basic level it is an expression of two of mankind's worst sins: greed and envy.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

We are in the economic trouble we are in today because our government wanted every American to own their own home. Go back to 1993 (?I believe it was called the Neighborhood Reclamation Act?) and follow it through to 2008 and you will see how it happened. You aren't even smart enough to learn from our past mistakes.

 

BTW: Every hard working American I know can or does own their own home. Some own 2 or 3. I also know many lazy people that own their own home so I don't know where you are coming from.

 

And I know some very hard-working people who had their home foreclosed during the (still ongoing) mortgage crisis. What exactly is your point?