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And they make the rules that help these people concentrate their wealth, or in other words enforce capitalism, and work to punish those who work outside of a wage job.
So who is the slave master now? Me, or the elites who write the laws?
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“The size of your bank account should not dictate how many years your children spend in school, or how long you live – yet this is the reality in too many countries across the globe,”said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International.
Since the financial crisis almost a decade ago, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled, with a new one created every two days between 2017 and 2018. At the same time, the mega-rich and wealthy corporations are enjoying lower tax rates than they have in decades, the report said.
“Governments are exacerbating inequality by underfunding public services, such as healthcare and education, on the one hand, while under taxing corporations and the wealthy,” Oxfam said.
Women and girls are hit hardest by the growing wealth gap, according to Oxfam. “Girls are pulled out of school first when the money isn’t available to pay fees, and women clock up hours of unpaid work looking after sick relatives when healthcare systems fail,” it said.
Covers a lot of territory - growing income inequality, tax benefits to mega-corporations and the rich, undermining health care and education (the latter a vital part of 'becoming marketable, let alone middle class or rich), and sexism.
Those 3.8 billion better get off their butts and get to work! Only one way they're ever going to be billionaires and it comes in the form of finding a business that people like and want to purchase your goods from you, that or managing someone else's money really really well. But those 3.8 billion have the same opportunities I have every day, they wake up, put their pants on one leg at a time, and do what they do. Some might even be future billionaires, think of that notion...
A lot of them come to America to do so but they are shunned because of their brown skin.
There is another danger - one that was recently expressed.
Republicans passed the tax cut. Democrats belly-ached about it being a tax cut for the rich. Voters in wealthy areas immediately voted in Democrats.
Why?
Because the tax cut limited the deduction for property tax to $10,000. And they want that money back.
Evidence?.... Rep Nita Lowey, D-NY, introduced a bill to increase the limit as soon as she could. All the while, screaming about tax breaks for the rich.
We should be implementing policies that give people the incentive to be free of the corporate and government controlled state. Our current policies only enforce the status quo and make the elite wealthier.
Get the lobbyists out of DC first.
Then, make it expensive for the big boys to exist and cheap for startups to exist.
The way the system works right now is the otherway around.
Cheap for the big boys and expensive for startups.
What’s the problem when the money is earned legally?
Everything is legal when you have the politicians in your back pocket.
Guess who is going to Davos along with these billionaires?
Their puppet politicians. It is one big circle jerk.
People keep screaming government is the problem but keep ignoring the elephant in the room.
These billionaires you defend look at government as the solution and donate lavishly to them.
Please, tell me how these rich people worked harder than everyone else to get here. Tell me why having unelected elite ruling the global economy while keeping everyone else in poverty is good.
Please, tell me.
Invent something or provide a service that billions of people around the world want and will buy and perhaps for once in your life you will stop blaming other people for your misery .
Some of our friends here forget the wealth these rich men use comes from the labor of the working class. Without labor capital and a consumer base, they would be nothing.
The labor has already been compensated according to the mutual agreement between the employees and the employers.
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