How do you close the gap between rich and poor? (illegal aliens, Obama)

[phma]

How do you close the gap between rich and poor?

What we know is it won't be by putting it in the vice of socialism. That debate is a dead end leading to the graveyard.

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by MLSFan

Why is gap an issue?

Because its a threat to our democracy when a tiny elite has enormous power to control the political system. You have to choose, either democracy or massive inequality. If you choose oligarchy over democracy you are simply working as a shill for the rich.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by LearnMe

Short answer is not to think there will ever be a day when we don't have poor people and/or rich people, but there is what can be done to help limit the disparities of opportunity between those born disadvantaged vs those born with advantage.

They get free primary school, free secondary school and free college, technical or vocational school.

What more do you want?

Do you want me to take the classes for them, so they can pass?

There's opportunities a-plenty. If they refuse to take advantage of them, there's nothing that can be done, right?

/thread.

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by LearnMe

You won't eliminate poverty. You won't close the gap between rich and poor. Everyone is NOT going to be equal!

They do it because they know deep down that you are right. Inequality like today is highly corrosive for society, and they know it.

[LearnMe]

Originally Posted by GearHeadDave

First of all you are assuming that everyone wants to close the gap between rich and poor. Many people want to widen the gap between the rich and the poor, by enriching themselves at the expense of the poor. Donald Trump is a perfect example, and the billionaire class he represents.

First of all, not true. In fact the opposite! Read my opening comment again and you might notice how I explain a person will be for or against these sorts of efforts depending on their views about "closing the gap between rich and poor."

Wanting to "enrich" oneself, as I have always strived to do, on my own behalf and family is a far cry from wanting more poor people to struggle or have access to the same opportunity to do so.

[Grlzrl]

THERE ARE OVER 80 TAXPAYER FUNDED ANTI POVERTY PROGRAMS IN THIS COUNTRY. When you subsidize something, you get MORE of it, not less.

[LearnMe]

Originally Posted by what'd i miss

Flat Tax

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken

In the case of this particular answer, very wrong!

[LearnMe]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Won't be any poor if we just let them all starve to death. But then the middle class just becomes the "poor".

Hadn't really thought about that. Thanks for the help.

[Colorado^]

Simple! Just vote to get the government to steal money from anyone that has more than you. The "poor" have the numbers, so what's taking them so long?


If the "poor" weren't so lazy they could ruin this county in a just a few election cycles.


I guess that's why the dems need so many illegal Mexicans. You know, they do the jobs Americans won't.

[GearHeadDave]

Originally Posted by broncosilly

Brought to you by another leftist clown

Truth hurts, doesn't it Bronco? You guys crack me up.