Posted by 838 on March 10, 2006, at 23:03:24
In reply to Re: Big, big difference » AuntieMel, posted by 838 on March 10, 2006, at 22:53:21
A - starving people
B - basic needs
C - little better off...
D - middle class
E - upper middle
F - rather wealthy
G - top 10% (own over half the wealth of the whole damned country)so...
whether you are A or B is a matter of... begging on the streets and relying on the goodness of strangers? i think that is is more dignified to get a welfare deposet in your bank account than it is to beg on the street... and the difference between A and B can be touch and go for the working poor... minimum wage and lots of mouths to feed...
In terms of charity... I bet D and E contribute more (percentage wise) than any other group...
While G contributes a million or so (very little percentage wise) and get blasted all over tv and the paper as a message of how generous americans are...
the idea is to have an incremental taxation system...
tax most from the people in G
have heard a bit of that goes on already...
but when you have 10% of the country with over 50% of the wealth... i would say the taxation should be a bit more severe...
but... there are ways of getting around taxes if you are wealthy enough to get your self / business a good tax lawyer - eh?
so once again D and E get hit the hardest.
D and E dont' realise that if more was taken from G (and lets face it they can stand to lose a lot and still be richer than the rest of the people in teh country if that is important to the people in the country...)
But if more was taken from G and given to A to bring them up to B and working A and B to bring them to C and C to bring them...
You can do it. Adjust things...
Remember...
G (a group of 10% of the population) have over half the wealth of the whole country.
It could be done.
Or... D and E can continue to dream of getting lucky and getting into G themselves...
Hmm.
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