thereisnospoon
Gold Member
And why is it someone elses responsibility to fix that for you? Why are YOU not responsible for having less wealth than someone else. I was watching a talk show the other day basically about a teenager kinda like you. A person that so far in her life, beating people up, yelling at them, and essentially being an immature brat has so far worked for them in getting what they want. Other people just cave. Both of you will learn when you eventually mature to adulthood that will no longer work in getting what you want. In your case changing income inequality is going to work on YOUR part mainly. If you don't like that others make more than you, then it's on YOU to correct that. Not on those that have more to simply give it to you.
I'm not saying it's anyone's job to fix it, I'm saying it's a problem that needs to get fixed.
I'm 50 years old. I own a home, I've served in the military and I've been working since I was 16. I don't expect anything to be "given" to me.
But the concentration of wealth in a few hands is not a healthy society. It's France in 1787, Russia in 1917 or Cuba in 1959 or Iran in 1979. It's five minutes before the ax comes down on the oblivious.
When I'm paying 25% taxes on my measly five figure salary and Mittens is paying 13%, there is something seriously wrong with that.
Let's just assume that your five figure earnings ar $60K for simplicity. 25% of 60K is $15K of which you will most likely get some of it returned. The news reports that Romney will have made $45M over 2010 and 2011, so let's split the difference in half to $23M. 13% of $23M is $2,990,000. Mitt Romney paid your $15K 199.33 times over. He paid 200 times what you paid in taxes. So tell us, what do you consider Romney's "fair share" to be?
If you think you'll get a straight answer from that question, please do not hold your breath.