So who do you blame? Do you blame the rich for making money or do you blame everyone else for continually buying things like new cars, iPhones, computers, and all kinds of things. Ever notice how the richest people are heads of companies that make things you don't have to have to survive?
Anyone in the technology sector, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Harlan Ellison, the list goes on. Guys like this represent the top teir of the income bracket, and if you look at it, most of them started from the very bottom.
I'm not rich by any means, I make above the national average, and I can't go out and buy whatever I want, but I understand that the rich are rich because they worked to get there.
The poor are poor because they are not willing to work or better themselves. I've seen single parents, manage to work a fulltime job for minimum wage, go to school and make their lives better. It's all about motivation, and sadly in this nation there is less of it. Why work your ass off and succeed on your own when you can have someone else do it for you. That's the mentality of anyone that thinks taxing the rich more to pay for the poor is the answer.
You can't make the bottom rungs of society better by bringing down the top rungs. You have to make the bottom rungs climb up the ladder.
I think more people would be for wealth redistribution if it wasn't just taking money from the rich to give to the poor so they can go out and buy Air Force One's, which ironically gives mony back to the rich.
Instead of giving the poor, wealthfare checks and food stamps for nothing. Make them attend job training. Make them attend social welfare and responsibility classes. Make them do something that will embetter themselves, instead of giving them a reason to sit on their ass and do nothing.
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