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Originally Posted by Zgrinch
Goverment is the real problem by advancing the entitlement programs and then leveraging the class warfare arguement to stay in power. Many of you in this forum appear to be in school or have just graduated, so let me ask you this question.
On the first day of Math class, the teacher tells everyone that NO one will make an A or B in this class, NO one will make an F or D in this class, but rather that everyone is going to make a C in the class to so it will be "fair" to everyone.
The students that make A's & B's, will have a portion of thier grades taken away so that the F and D students can have thier grades moved up to C's.
After the first week, how many students in the class will be doing homework?
This may be over-simplified, but the reality is that America was not built on a socialist mentality, and so this "entitlement" attitude is ruining our country, and the Goverment is feeding on this sense of "entitlement" from the F and D students in order to get them to vote in mass, whereby the government stays in power and those people end up being slaves to the government, while the A & B students will eventually move to a different school (country/move thier money offshore) and finally this wonderful "fair" school will collapse because the model does not work.
I do not pretend to have all the answers, but entitlement reform and restoring personal accountability are the first steps to put the country back on the right path.
Just my 2 cents.
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That is oversimplified and off the mark. If you go through life and now make a ton of money, you should not bring home more and more while the hard working blue collar guy is working two jobs to keep the bills paid and having to give Uncle Sam his first born child in taxes. This is not "A and B students have to suffer and carry the weight of C and D students" like your analogy eludes to.
There is an Economic Growth chart that shows when the top 1% was banking in most of the money. EVERY SINGLE TIME the Top 1% did, we entered into a Depression (the Great Depression was the same situation). When the Top 1% paid more in taxes though (i.e. Clinton Era), the country was on an Economic Growth. Then Bush came into office and guess what....Top 1% started banking back in the money and guess what...what is our economy like today?
Like I said, there is a graph online that lays all this out and shows the Percentage the Top 1% brought in and shows where we were Economic Growth wise. Trickle Down Economics does not work period. How many depressions do we need to enter before we stop letting this happen. Top 1% should not get tax breaks and loop holes that the little guy can't get. If you give them tax breaks then award those tax breaks to everyone. If I'm paying X amount % in taxes, I expect someone making more than me to either pay the same % or more, not less.