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Originally Posted by GregWeld
I think the facts need to be checked before making statements like this. I'm not picking a fight with you personally -- but I hear this same crap all the time and it's just that. Pure crap.
It's just never as simple as "1% vs the 99%".... or the "I pay more (or less) taxes than someone else".
It's America... there's a reward for risk - there's "incentives" to invest - there's opportunity to change your own life. Sometimes those risks/changes don't work out... some people get up and do it all over again - some give up and whine - some keep walkin' around wishin' and hoping' but never taking action. Some just blame others for their lives not going per their dreams.
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I realize now that my statement was too broad, without a doubt there are a lot of people in the so called 1% that pay a higher percentage than I do, and certainly they all pay far more on an absolute basis than I do.
And I agree 100% about most people not putting in the work or taking the chances that you need to take to be successful. This in particular bothers me with some of the protestors. If you make bad decisions you need to take some responsibility for that and I think that is one of the things that seperates people who are successful from those that aren't.
That all being said, it's a fact that the income gap has risen and while you should be able to work hard and/or take risks and see benefits from that, at what point do things get so far out of whack that it is a problem?
I think with the way wages for the middle class have gone down and earnings for the very rich have gone up, we are slightly out of whack. And no I'm not saying you would just take money from A and give it to B, nothing is ever so simple.
However, from an economics standpoint, I will say for certain that if you took 1,000$ from every rich guy, and gave it to a car guy, that the car guy would turn around and spend at least 1,500$ on car parts.