Toddsterpatriot
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- May 3, 2011
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Amazon pays nothing actually and abuses the post office as wellYou are right the rich are small and can not pay for everything. Thanks for understanding this and voting for trumpYou would give up 700 million of every 1 billion too
Yea right, too bad you have nothing
Psst! Here's clue. They're less than 1% of the population. The ONLY way their side will get elected is if fools like you vote for the policies that help them. That's why Republicans vilify city dwellers, non-whites and immigrants. To gin up hatred for the "others" so you don't notice that it really is the ultra wealthy they're governing for.
The rich are small in nunmber but they control MOST of the wealth. They also pay the smallest percentage of their income in taxes, and get to keep far more of their income than working people. At the same time, they have numerous deductions and loopholes working people don't have.
Since 1980, executives and upper management have seen their salaries increase by 300% in terms of real income. Working people have not only seen their income stagnate, but the buying power of that income has eroded because all of their costs have gone up and their income hasn't kept pace.
I did a recent social experiment using my own lifestyle and its costs, and compared them with those of my 29 year-old daughter at the same age. We both had two children by age 29, she's married and I was divorced at that age, but in fairness, I married much younger than she did, and my kids were about 3 years older than hers. She has yet to buy her first house, I was living in my second house.
What I found was that the lifestyle I had at age 29 would be so expensive today, that I couldn't afford any of it - not the house, the new car, the in-home daycare, the travel. My monthly costs have gone from $700, including house, car and day care, to over $3000 a month for the same costs today. At the same time as my income has gone from $1500 per month, to $2,200 per month for the same job. During this time frame, the bank I worked for has automated and is far more profitable now, than it was when I worked there.
Where do you think those reduced costs and increased profits have gone? They've gone to the corporations, and their shareholders. The top 20% of income earners. Increased income and profits used to be split among the corporation, its workers and its shareholders. The workers have been pushed out of the equation, and as corporations get larger, and the wealthy people who run them are further and further removed from the people they employ, the real effect of all of the growth going to the top, is never seen by the people who make the policies.
My daughter laughed that the purchase price of my newer 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1350 sq. ft. house was LESS than the minimum down payment on a starter property today. My daughter and her husband will pay more than 20 times what I paid for our starter home in 1973, for their first home today, and they're shopping in rural areas to find something that cheap.
they control MOST of the wealth. They also pay the smallest percentage of their income in taxes,
I don't believe you can prove this claim.
At the same time, they have numerous deductions and loopholes working people don't have.
For example?
Dragonlady is talking about rich people, nor corporations. Try to pay attention.