PATRIOT:
Many small business owners are multi-millionaires and have the ulcers to prove they have earned their money. While they're forced by the ruthless economic system they compete in to exploit every situation/individual they encounter, at least their labor produces something of tangible value for society.
I believe these same small business owners (earning over $250,000/year) pay taxes at the same rate as the richest 10,000 Americans who earn $50,000,000/year. These richest 0.01% of Americans earn their money more from speculation and government's tax bias in favor of debt over equity investment.
They get rich from using other people's money in the market and shedding other people's blood in Iraq and Afghanistan (and maybe Mexico when the War Racket becomes too expensive to wage half a world away.)
Finally, I don't know the history of supply/demand side Economics well enough to know if our country was founded on trickle down or not, but I am clear on the overwhelming unequal
distribution of wealth out current tax brackets produce:
"The main problem with the system of distribution of wealth in this country is the TOTAL LACK of distribution. Of course you don’t see that when you are in the deep end of the distribution pool…
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10,000 people make 30% of the income in the United States of America and the next 29.99M people make another 40% and the next 30M people make 12% and
THE OTHER 240M people have to fight over the remaining 18%.
"This is your idea of fair?
"Let’s say it’s a poker tournament:
* Table 1 has 10,000 people who have $1M each to play with
* Table 2 (top 10-0.01%) has 30M people who have $433 each to play with
* Table 3 (top 20-10%) has 30M people who have $133 each to play with
* Table 4 (bottom 60%) has 240M people who have $25 each to play with...
"The joke of the thing (
and believe me it is a joke to The 10,000) is how vociferously the players at table 2 and even table 3 will defend the same system that is working against them.
"In part, it’s because they are so close to the main table that they can almost smell the money and, for many, that drives them into a frenzy where nothing else matters but getting to Table One and playing with the big boys for their chance at Fame and Fortune.
"Why is that? Why do we feel that way?
"Perhaps it’s because we have an entire culture that emphasizes this behavior from birth.
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When was the last time you played a game where your primary objective was to help others?
"When is the sidekick, the person who helps a hero, not the joke of the movie?
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Have you ever seen Superman build low-income housing or watched Batman feed the homeless?
"No, we are trained to fight and win and people who don’t win are left in the dust, not worthy of a second thought other than as a foil for the hero to deliver his catch-phrase to."
Finally, consider the possibility that for thousands of years before anyone coined the word "socialism" ALL governments' principal obligation has been to socialize cost and privatize profit for a select few.
Phil's Stock World
