thereisnospoon
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No, guy, it's a revenue problem.
Cops making an average of 50K a year for doing a job where people are SHOOTING AT THEM, working odd hours, etc. is not our problem.
It's the rich not paying their fair share.
If they are paying most of the taxes, it's because they have most of the wealth- AND that's the problem.
Stalin was the end result of a system where there was too much concentration of wealth at the top, until it toppled.
Simply physics... when the top is too heavy, and the bottom is too weak, things collapse.
Sorry you can't understand this, or refuse to.
Republicans have spent the last 30 years undermining the middle class through outsourcing, offshoring, union-busting, etc. And now they realized there were a few government workers who got to keep their good salaries...
Unfortunately, these are the people they'd be counting on to protect them when shit gets real.
I have a hard time imagine a cop trying to quell a riot for $50K... I could imagine he would be less eager to do it for 30K and no pension or benefits.
Holy shit. You exist in a parallel universe.
In any dictatorial or communist system, all wealth is the property of the central government(CG). The CG then decides the procedure to distribute. In all instances, these types of government have small elite ruling classes that are inside the government. These people attempt to convince the people they are benevolent. The government takes care of only the bare essentials. In each case the people are supplied just enough to keep them in line and out of the way of government policy.
Socialist governments offer certain freedoms. Government largess is achieved through extremely high tax rates as well as value added sales taxes. These systems work in places where societies are orderly relatively crime free and have small generally homogeneous populations.
Communist and dictatorial states control ALL wealth and control every aspect of the society.
Police officers are professionals. They may belong to unions but they would never pull the kind o shit the everyday union thug pulls by saying, "fuck you...I'm only getting paid "X", so I will do a shitty job"..
Police officers are professionals. They don't do the job just for the money.
I cannot believe there exists a person such as yourself with such archaic ideas.