Zone1 What is Wrong with Inequality?

[The Sage of Main Street]

A good place to start would be accepting the facts of life.

Status Quo Is Stagnant

That's the way to an early death, and it always has been.

 

[alang1216]

The elected officials, I vote for try to reduce the tax burden.

If only you were King.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Taxes are low in America. Not so much in socialistic countries.

Reinforces the US not becoming a socialistic country.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Equality is a human construct and counter to nature which only recognizes equilibrium.

Anyone Born with a Silver Spoon in His Mouth Has a Birth Defect

Inheritance is a primitive and mindless superstition.

 

[alang1216]

I wish posters would take the topic seriously.

The topic I take seriously, some of the posters, not so much.

 

[OODA_Loop]

If only you were King.

I don't want to be King. Less taxes - less government.

 

[alang1216]

I don't want to be King. Less taxes - less government.

If you're not King, you're just another voter. You'll have to convince enough other voters to agree with you. Good luck with that, you have not been convincing so far, so far you just disagree. What is your plan? If it is "Less taxes - less government", whose taxes would you lower and what parts of government would you trim?

 

[alang1216]

Familyism Is Even More Primitive Than Tribalism

Unless hereditary opportunities are abolished for everyone, a father would be cheating his son out of the most available way to get opportunities. The disinherited would become as excluded as the commoners are, no matter what his natural abilities.

Inheritances should be limited for everyone. There is no way to make the opportunities of a child of a policeman equal to the opportunities of one of Musk's kids but at least we can limit how much money they start out with.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Equity just means government decides who gets the goodies rather than the market.

Socialite Socialists


That's what happens in this Preppy Republic of "ours." No market gave them their Daddy's Money.

The "government" you think is from the people is completely controlled to benefit only the RichKid Reich. They finance losers because, in a rational country, they themselves would be losers, instead of Sperm Bingo winners.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Inequality is bad because inequality reduces revenues and causes debt and deficits. It can kill an economy if people don't have money to spend on gadgets. Your entire post is stupid, because 1 entrepreneur would not create a problem, but government policy that has denied wealth to certain people has created a problem. It is a problem whereby America has lost more than 51 trillion dollars since 1990 alone.

But since you're a white male, the most protected class in America, it's easy for you to try excusing inequality.

I'm constantly amused by the seeming belief from you on the left that there is a finite amount of wealth and that in order for the wealthy to make money they have to take money away from the poor! There is no limit to wealth. It isn't being "denied" to certain people! America is still the place where people can become successful through hard work and innovation.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Inheritances should be limited for everyone. There is no way to make the opportunities of a child of a policeman equal to the opportunities of one of Musk's kids but at least we can limit how much money they start out with.

Why should you have the right to take the money that I worked hard to amass, Alang? If I choose to leave that to my family that should be MY right! I paid taxes on that money as it was made. I'll pay a tax on it when I die and it goes to my family. What right does anyone have to take MORE of that money in the name of "inequality"?

 

[Lisa558]

It would be the death of society if everyone were “equalized” without requiring responsible behavior, positive attributes, wise decisions, and so forth.

Where is the incentive to accomplish anything?

 

[OODA_Loop]

If you're not King, you're just another voter. You'll have to convince enough other voters to agree with you. Good luck with that, you have not been convincing so far, so far you just disagree. What is your plan? If it is "Less taxes - less government", whose taxes would you lower and what parts of government would you trim?

We do agree. See the 2024 election win and focus on reducing taxes.

Many of the cuts identified in the DOGE undertaking are spot on and great step in the right direction. Certainly the ones spending US tax dollars on foreign social non-sense programs.

Further tax cuts for charitable donations.

Advocate for a flat tax of some variety.

Eliminate entities like the Department of Education, USAID, etc.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If the key man had not invented the gizmo the workers would have no job

Two Wings of the Same Vulture

More proof that Socialists are spoiled-putrid Preppies, the natural enemy of creative natural talent. All modern inventions would have been made millennia ago, if it were not for the crushing exclusion imposed by the absolute evil of hereditary wealth, influence, and political power.

 

[Lisa558]

Inheritances should be limited for everyone. There is no way to make the opportunities of a child of a policeman equal to the opportunities of one of Musk's kids but at least we can limit how much money they start out with.

You’re better off if you stop comparing yourself to people who have more than you, and grumbling about how “unfair” it is, and just make good decisions, be responsible, exercise discipline, obey laws, work hard, and do the best you can.

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

 

[OODA_Loop]

There is no way to make the opportunities of a child of a policeman equal to the opportunities of one of Musk's kids but at least we can limit how much money they start out with.

You can't make the opportunities of policeman the same as the opportunities of a fast wood worker......so then what? You can't make the opportunity of a fast food worker the same as a day laborer.

My kids don't have opportunities that someone else does - others do have more than me.

Its not a call for .gov to make everything fair.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

And there have always been the Rockefellers, Gates, Bezos, Musks and Kennedys as well as the Capones, Bonannos and Gambinos. They are really irrelevant to the point. Are you in favor of donating your wealth in the name of equality? If so, have at it. Your belief doesn't give you the right to redistribute other's wealth. Henry Ford and the Dodge boys didn't have much until they came up with a better mouse trap. They earned what they have. To your point, elected officials who have used their positions to illegally enrich themselves, should be stripped of everything they own and jailed.

Why? Elected officials are gaming the system just like any private sector business people do.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I work to provide for my descendants

The Triumph of the Will


Descendant comes from a word meaning "racing to the bottom." Any HeirDad who sets his descendants up halfway to the finish line shows his real contempt for their ability to succeed on their own.

Contrary to its tense, a will is a document that blocks everybody else's future.

Pretending that this is an incentive is as overreaching as making sex-on-demand with your employees a constructive incentive. In fact, the guillotine-fodder nobility did have that privilege.

 

[OODA_Loop]

The Triumph of the Will

Any HeirDad who sets his descendants up halfway to the finish line shows his real contempt for their ability to succeed on their own.

Who gives a shit?

I don't say that flippantly.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Cute
More blame the victim

The reality is that we slash taxes on the wealthy while our poor live in tents on the fringe of society.

We can do better

rightwinger Is a Pawn of Preppy Progressives

You are manipulated by the agents-provocateurs on the phony Left to share our wealth with lazy whiners.