Posted by Estella on May 10, 2006, at 1:58:24
In reply to yeah » gardenergirl, posted by wildcardII on May 9, 2006, at 13:02:55
> ~i often wonder how that 10% can spend so much on things when so many are suffering???????????
Sigh.
Well...
To be fair...
I manage to waste money quite nicely on coffee and concerts and movies and clothes etc etc etc...
When I could sponsor a starving child with that money.
Why do I do that?
Because sometimes I think we are under an illusion of what we "need" to be human...
Because out of sight out of mind as the saying goes.
IMHO redistribution of wealth...
Is about redistributive taxation.
I know the USA has that already...
But IMHO it isn't fixing the situation (because there is still a radical imbalance)
Why isn't it working?
Probably because (not sure if I get these the right way around) But probably because tax 'avoidance' is illegal (that is avoiding paying your taxes) wheras tax 'evasion' is not illegal (and you just need the money to hire a good tax lawyer to shuffle stuff around within the company and take advantages of family trusts and charitable trusts and donations and things like that to 'evade' paying your taxes).
If you have money... Easy enough to keep / make money...
And thus the middle class tend to be hit the hardest on their taxes. While those wealthy ones... They manage to 'evade' paying their taxes (if i got those around the wrong way then i apologise - genuine error).
And the rich get richer...
And the middle class aspire to be rich...
And the middle class think the lower classes are threatening their lifestyle, their way of life, when really IMHO it is the upper classes who manage to keep the middle class under their thumb whereas if the middle class and the lower class united...
And IMHO politicians should be on an 'average' salary.
Why?
Because they are supposed to be civil servants.
They are supposed to be serving *you* hence representing the common man.
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