Reply #31: Their positions are premised on a false comparison. [View All]

[The Wizard]

They believe that wealthy people worked hard for their money and that poor people either don't work or are lazy. They've bought the pie in the sky myth that worked to keep slaves in chains. They like to play the victim and point at the less fortunate as the cause of their own troubles.
Anyone believing Paris Hilton got rich through hard work must be on dope. Ask them how many jobs Paris Hilton created with her tax cuts.
We've been through 10 years of the Bush tax structure and still no jobs. Failed concepts are failed concepts. Trickle down economics was going to put a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage, at least according to Herbert Hoover. We all know how that worked out.
It took Roosevelt's social programs to save capitalism.