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If the top half pays all the payroll taxes, maybe the bottom half who use almost all the services should write thank you letters, do the laundry, mow yards and clean the homes of those paying for their bills.
What makes you think anyone has the rights to another person's earnings?
Even God through one of the Ten Commandants tells us:
"THOU SHALL NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS"
You comrades won't be happy until everyone makes the same income as everyone else; when everyone lives in the same squalid flat as everyone else; and when we're all bound by chains by a dictator like Jospeh Stalin.
We live in a country where people can buy anything they want--they can choose to buy "organic" produce from esoteric grocers; they can buy TV sets as large as a small barn; they can buy all-terrain vehicles, and sports' cars, and cell phones that exceed the processing power of personal computers. We CAN get healthcare services from redi-med centers and clinics, and we have pharmacys open 24 hours a day.
You complainers could get all of this, but you're too busy looking over your shoulder, wondering what the other guy has--all you look at is the money they make, and you think because he made more than you last year, he must've stolen it somehow. You people think all wealth is part of the same pie, and that there's no way that someone can earn or create a SECOND pie. You all dwell so much on the percentages and statistical averages of this group or that group--get over it, get to work,...
I found this article comment really interesting. Not saying that I agree, but its worth discussing.
maybe the bottom half who use almost all the services
If by "services" you mean all of the services the US government provides, then the more wealth you have, the more services you use. It's not cheap to run a nationwide system of courts and appeals courts that settle contractual disputes.
It's not cheap to field a global military that helps "promote American interests abroad" and that makes the careers of quite a few corporate executives via all the merchandise it purchases.
It's not cheap to maintain law and order to the extent necessary for business to be conducted in an efficient and relatively safe manner. Nor is all that infrastructure cheap.
The problem is, you seem to be thinking of "services" in extremely narrow terms.
Try looking at the lobbyists who converge on DC every legislative session, and the interests they represent. They wouldn't be there without all that federal money sloshing around.
Follow that cash, and you'll see who is demanding the most budgetary and policy "services."
If the top half pays all the payroll taxes, maybe the bottom half who use almost all the services should write thank you letters, do the laundry, mow yards and clean the homes of those paying for their bills.
What makes you think anyone has the rights to another person's earnings?
Even God through one of the Ten Commandants tells us:
"THOU SHALL NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS"
System still seems to be working fine for anyone who wants to put in the effort.
PPP (per Capita) > GDP statistics - countries compared - NationMaster (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp_ppp_percap-economy-gdp-ppp-per-capita - broken link)
"Mother Jones"? Why not just say, "Workers of the world, unite!"
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