Oh, no, we can't have the rich pay more taxes. The top 1% of the wealthy in the good old USA own something like 40% of the wealth. But the good old GOP will do anything and say anything to keep the rich from paying more taxes.
Do the rich work for this money? No.
Do they get up every morning and go to a job and work 8-5:00? Do they put on overalls and work in the fields, from dawn till dark? Do they put on work clothes and make cars? Do they work on factory floors, helping to build anything?
Do they teach in our schools? Do they put out our fires? Do they arrest our felons? Do they guard our borders? Fight our wars? Make our subways and trucks and buses and trains run? Build our highways and bridges?
No. They sit on their fannies, and the money rolls in. They make money off their money. Let your money work for you.
OK, nothing wrong with that. Let the fat cats earn money off their money. But they should pay equal taxes.
Who does the work that produces that wealth? Who puts on work clothes and turns the gears that creates that wealth?
Guess who. The middle class and the working class.
But do the rest of us get any of that wealth? As little as possible. Too often, we get the minimum wage, which is not a living wage. Not even close. The rich get rich by screwing the poor.
When we suggest equal taxes, their lackeys in Congress whine about class warfare. But we have always had class warfare, since the days of the robber barons in the 19th century.
And guess who has been winning.
The rich have been screwing the rest of us for generations, more and more since the decline of unions, and since the rich have been shipping jobs overseas.
Class warfare? I say bring it on. They started it.
-- Roger
Copyright © 2011, Roger R. Angle
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