Regardless of how many years I’ll have left, I will always be able to know that everything I have or will leave behind I worked for.
Screw the wealthy and the bluenosers, if they have more than enough then good for them.
I do acknowledge though that I benefited greatly from the government wealth building programs that built the white middle class in the 20th century and I am a little curious as to why people seem to be working to dismantle what made America great in favor of most of the wealth being accumulated at the top.
Doesn’t take a MA from MIT to figure out the liberal-socialists have an agenda. Let em waste their time, Joseph Goebbels (paraphrasing) said :“tell a lie often enough and it will be perceived as truth”.
And that’s the problem. Conservatives see the tax code as the means to fund the government. Liberals see it as a way to punish people who have done better than them.
I am not a millionaire. But I know some. I go on outdoor adventures with a small group. All of them have more money than me. Two are for sure millionaires. When it’s time to pay the national park fee, or buy a round of drinks, I wouldn’t dare skip my turn. Even though they don’t need my money. I would be embarrassed not to pay my own way. Everybody should pay something. Existing as only a receiver without giving anything is bad for the soul.
I don’t think that one can argue with a straight face that conservatives “fund” the government. They enjoy just as much government, but leave the funding to people who aren’t even born yet.
Now… onto the the idea of punishment.
It isn’t punishment that is being discussed here. It is about how a modern, very wealthy, post industrial western democracy organizes it’s economy and benefits from that economy.
What we are seeing now is the beginnings of the failure of the Chicago school Utopian economics and the reaction to that which is Neo Liberalism.
What I ask is that the country returns to more of the economic ethos of the mid 20th century but without all of the overt racism and sexism.
