[quote=deadzone]I’m tired of all the right wing rhetoric about “risk taking” and how taxes are unfair because people should be rewarded for “Taking risks”. All this talk about risk taking sounds a lot to me like gambling. Is gambling something we should encourage? And as with any form of gambling, there are winners and losers. What do the right-wing no-tax people suppose should happen to the losers? Is all the money they made “risk taking” so sacred that some of it can’t be taxed in part to help provide a social safety net for those less fortunate? And one more thing the right-wingers don’t comprehend, being more fortunate doesn’t necessarily mean you worked any harder.[/quote]
There absolutely nothing wrong with risk taking, assuming people who take the risk are accountable for when the crapper hits the fan. The problem with today is that people who take risks don’t have to deal with the consequences if the crapper hits the fan. This applies to bankers AS WELL AS J6P who did a ALT-A 100% financed loan who now think they are entitled to be able to keep the home.
I think if we seriously think everyone should be a paid the same, irrespective of what they do, well there’s another form what that is.
