So I take it you do.
And there comes the rhetoric.
You didn't actually point out any particular stage of the process thats unfair or undesirable, you just skipped straight to bitching about people being wealthier than you.
You want what they have, given to them by their parents who earned it.
Wow lets look at my post and see if I was bitching.
So you are looking forward to the foundation of an aristocratic class of the idle wealthy?
The days of Georgian and Victorian England are an ideal for you?
Can't wait till we bring back the workhouses and debtors prisons? So much good comes from orphanages doesn't it.
Nope looks like straightforward questions to me. And not surprisingly you refused to answer any.
You see societies have found that they are more stable if there is a process in place to prevent the consolidation of wealth in the hands of the few.
Progressive taxation is actually a long term gain for society and the vast majority of people in a society. You see governments job is not to protect peoples wealth. Its job is to do the most good it can for the most people. I like this explanation
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America's government has at least two fundamental functions, protection and empowerment. Protection includes the police, firefighters, emergency services, public health, the military, and so on. Empowerment includes the infrastructure needed for business and everyday life: roads, communications systems, water supplies, public education, the banking system for loans and economic stability, the SEC for the stock market, the courts for enforcing contracts, air traffic control, support for basic science, our national parks and public buildings, and more. We are usually aware of protection. But the empowerment infrastructure, provided by taxes, is usually taken for granted, hidden, or ignored. Yet it is absolutely crucial, a fundamental truth about America and why America provides opportunity.
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Infrastructure and social programs must be paid for. Are you of the belief that everyone on social programs "should go get a job"? If so, how do people survive on minimum wage? Where do you think the handicapped and indigent or mentally ill are going to go if we cut social programs to the bone? Are you going to up your charitable giving? Or do you think they will disappear? How much more do you think you will pay for prisons and orphanages and police protection if we cut social programs?
When would you say the US economy was the strongest? Post WWII through the 1970's statistically was when the economy boomed. What drove that? Government spending and investment. Should we not have built the interstate highway system? Not have improved and built the infrastructure that allowed the economy to blossom? Close down schools that don't pay for themselves?
Do you know when the marginal tax rate in the US was highest? The same time period.
http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php
How about showing us a society that was or is stable, that allowed for the continuing concentration of wealth and a continuing and growing disparity between the rich and the poor.
you just skipped straight to bitching about people being wealthier than you.
Here is the difference between people like you and people like me. All you can see is the personal effect of these issues. I do not begrudge people being wealthier than me. I don't want their money. I am sitting pretty damn good financially. Better than probably 75% of the people in this country. My concern is the long term effect of not dealing with social issues and infrastructure issues. It is called having a social conscience.
Go ahead and go John Galt. In actuality it is a stupid idea, since we have a progressive tax system and there is a thing called a marginal tax rate. But then again if you are making over $250k a year there may be a slight benefit to you personally.
Are you a proponent of the opt out idea?
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