“So do I. That is why I would prefer that super-rich people like you pay more taxes so that I can pay less.”
There it is right there in a nutshell. It is not about raising oneself to strive for greater wealth. It is about bringing down those that are successful.
The bottom line is that is much harder to be successful then not. To make change in yourself is HARD. It is much easier to hope for, to advocate, to force change in others then in yourself.
Life is not really fair. You either adapt or you do not. A grand social experiment about redistributing wealth from those that have to those that do not can be abstracted to many other forms. What about the classroom? Should the teacher devote many more hours to the slow students because they cannot learn as fast as the quicker students? Should those that accel IN ANYTHING, be it academics, creation of wealth, atheletics, stop and devote more of thier own time effort and/or resources to help those that do not?
That is what is so intriguing about this entire election. Granted there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING right about the rampant corruption, greed, wasteful spending, horrid international and domestic policies from Bush. I don’t like any party and am a liberal. Yet it is fascinating that there is this universal belief that the “wealthy” OWE MORE to those that don’t have wealth. That there is now this sense of almost universal entitlement from a HUGE number of our population that they are ENTITLED to more money from the government. It is not about empowring themselves to better thier own lives through hard work, or education. It is about getting OWED what they are ENTITLED to from those that have already done so.
Breeze you summed it up in one perfect statement. It was almost comical. What is “super rich”? 10M? 1M? 250k? Doesn’t it seem somewhat arbitrary?
Just answer me these questions.
Why should someone who has worked hard and earned wealth have to contribute more to the government then anybody else?
Why should you Breeze pay less then say me? Here are my numbers. You can assume I make 10k or 100k or 1M it doesn’t matter. Just tell me why you should pay less then me.
