In short.. very short..... Id rather be in a world that the poor are not damned to continueing to be poor and the rich are not given incentives to continue to make the gap even larger. Call me a socialist.
Whether someone inherits a ton of money or not...I doubt that you can show me a larger figure saying that they started out in poverty then grew to make millions. They at least had some type of resources to aid them in their ascension. In most cases the very poor stay poor because they have little aid in getting over that hump, and a large part of the money they do make is being taxed... There is a huge difference in this society between the poor and the middle class. Then again between the middle class and the rich.
To be even more socialist... going from being a "proletariat" to a "bourgeoisie" can be a rather large task for someone in poverty that barely afford to live. These types of people are not ALWAYS the lazy, incompetent people of this society. Once you are born in it, raised unfortunately by example... and have been given little to no resources to build on... it is hard for that type of person to get out of the common man work force and start his own business (successfully). Some people are just not raised to be able to and will never be able to do that. Society will always have those people. The types of people that will work the hardest they could possibly work all of their lives and never see a quality standard of living.
Bottom line for me is... if you are making $300k plus a year. Taxes are not going to hurt your standard of living. At all. If you are making $10,000 a year... it can take away much needed food on the table for your family. .. Don't get me wrong, I am definitely in the "bourgeoisie" or at least starting to be with making around $40k at 21 years old. But, I definitely understand and know some people that will just never be able to make it over that hump. And those people are far from lazy.
So yeah... I definitely support taxing the rich much much more than the poor.. and taxing the middle class more than the poor. We should want more people becoming successful, rather than the largest class of society moving in the opposite direction. - Besides whatever way poor people use their extra money from a tax return/less taxation... they either save it to build a better future, or they are in fact the stupid ones, and they spend it, thus helping the economy either way.
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