Reply #13: Don't have the time right now [View All]

[prolesunited]

to do justice to a response to this thread, but the naivety and incorrect underlying assumptions of your question demonstrates that you are sorely in need of being educated on this issue.

While the right is decrying class warfare and claiming we are trying to play Robin Hood, they are enjoying the benefit of the lowest cumulative tax rate in decades. With each passing year, they are actually paying less while the lower and middle class are bearing the tax burden. The average CEO makes 531 times more than those they employ at minimum wage.

In addition, corporations are enjoying HUGE tax breaks, having public money funneled to them as we privatize government services through no-bid contracts — all the while shipping jobs overseas.

If I have some time later, I will post some relevant facts and figures that will surely alter your viewpoint.

Contrary to what you apparently have been misled to believe, most of us are NOT in favor to raise taxes on the middle and working classes. However, many are in favor of progressive and fair taxation that will restore the wealth distribution levels to where they were several decades ago.

Also, most of us are in favor of hand ups, not hand outs. The goal is not, as you seem to imply, to create a welfare state in which lazy people rely on government handouts on the backs of those who work hard.

That said, there is room for government intervention. How about increasing the minimum wage so that people working full time are not living in poverty and do NOT qualify for food stamps and subsidized housing.

Think of it this way, while WalMart is paying less-than-subsistence wages while the founder's five children rank among the nation's wealthiest people, YOUR tax dollars are being used to help feed and take care of their employees.

I certainly hope more people have the time to clear up you misperceptions.