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Originally Posted by mburbank
I think the one thing this excellent article leaves out is an ingrained American belief in not just upward mobility, but an egocentric blind faith in funkagroovitalizer upward mobility. Deep in our hearst, we all believe that we will soon be wealthy enough for two homes, the best cars, a boat, etc. This will happen Horatio Lager style, through dint of our hard work, pluck and perserverance or through luck. Witness the number of people you personally know who actively believe they will someday win the lottery. We favor the rich because we believe we almost are the rich, we will be next week or next month, sometime soon certainly. This is why the Republican right can so effectively wield the 'Class War' card, as if we aren't deep into one already, and one most people are loosing badly.
EDIT: A disclosure before the oft used refrain of my supposed biterness comes up. While I don't concider myself or my bride well paid, we've worked long and hard. We own a two family home, half of which we rent, and a condominium which we also rent. I am firmly middle class and reasonably securely employed. In terms of America I do perfectly well and am perfectly comfortable. My compassion is for those worse off than I. My Ire is for those who eat their share of the pie , have seconds and scream like babies that 'less deserving' folk are allowd under the table catch their scraps.
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See, this is the reason I really don't respect you, Max. Your claims and your supposed actions are in direct opposition to each other. You claimed to have worked hard for what you have in life, and if you have, it is commendable. But your political and social beliefs are in direct opposition to what the "working hard" philosophy is all about.
The common "progressive" or liberal in this day and age is not about working hard. They want the perfect society right NOW. They believe profection is achieveable when the sane person knows that is about as likely as man growing wings and flying in the sky. You follow a path that is ripe for corruption because the progressives truly don't have a path to follow. The only guiding light they have is to be anti-their opposition.
Take the presidental canidates for example: Their political platforms are about as big as a Post-It. They just wish to defeat Bush. What kind of platform would that be to support? The CP-USA is not going to have a canidate this year because their only goal is to get rid of Bush. Does Soros have any idea of what kind of society he wants with that amount of money he wants to use to get Bush out of office? Would people want to vote for someone that has convictions and stances on issues or someone that will only do the opposite of what their oppsition does without any rational thought?
Back to that article: That is something that could have been in a Red paper. "The rich are not paying their fair share of taxes...." That quote always makes me want to spit nails. Max has the balls to talk about the REPUBLICANS using Class Warfare when that is about the only thing Democrats/Liberals/"Progressives"/Communists/Socalists can jabber on about.
The stats are unavoidable that the rich pay per their income vast majority of taxes while people who make little pay little. Corporations never pay taxes. The CONSUMER pays the taxes. When taxes are increased on corporations, they just raise the prices of their products and let the consumer absorb the costs. The idea of corporations and the rich not paying their fair share of taxes is like the lazy kid in class whining that he didn't recieve a gold star because he didn't turn in his paper to begin with.
It is horrible that the gap between the "rich" and "poor" has widened. But let's look at some reasons why:
1) could it be because the rich keep making money and having new ideas which keep them making money while the poor continue to make the piss-poor decisions that keep them poor
2) Could it be that it is the poor themselves that will not want to read, work hard and absorb education and opportunites that are presented to them? Hell, I've had a roomate that wouldn't read a book or do anything outside of school work if you payed him a grand. I think that is pretty damn said, personally. But if he is poor in his life, that's his problem, not mine.
If you want taxes reduced for everyone, you have to get rid of the govt spending we have now, and with the increasing expansion of govt under Bush, I am sorry to say, that may be far off. We need another Reagan revolution. The liberals and leftists need to understand they don't have a clue about leading the country or even a Boy Scout group. Their ideas are great in the Ivory Towers, but they don't resonate with the common Joe, but rather with the common illegal immigrant Hector.
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