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The Myth of the ‘Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor’

January 30, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Tom Blumer
goy
2009-01-30 11:06:27

- Everything you have posted supports my position.
Not so far.

- I’ve covered this topic for you before.
LOL. Having failed miserably there, you persist. A better approach might be to apply your energies to bettering your economic situation. You might start by getting an education that translates into the ability to get an actual job.

- You can’t see that those who benefit from government should pay their fair share to support it.

Wrong.

You’re assuming, again with no supporting evidence whatsoever, that anyone who earns what you think an “absurd” income is benefiting from the government.

You’re also ignoring the documented fact that higher earners are already paying far more than their “fair share” to support everyone else. For example, the top 5% earners – that was approximately 9M people in 2006 – pay over %60 of all income tax paid in a country of over 300M. I’m sure you think that’s not enough. The top 50% earners pay virtually all income tax paid. Obviously that doesn’t satisfy you either, even though many of those in the remaining 50% are simply handed money paid by the former – it’s called “tax credits” to disguise what it really is: socialist federal welfare. You obviously haven’t the slightest clue what “fair share” really means.

Your “resources of the world” is a red herring – resources are not at issue here. We’re talking about the ability to generate wealth, which America proved long ago, through capitalism, imagination, self-government and the will to work is infinite. And only to the extent that flawed socialist ideology is allowed to destroy that ability – as it miraculously did last year at precisely the point in time BHO needed it to – has it ever faltered.

If Oprah Winfrey can go from less than nothing to multi-billionaire, what’s your pathetic excuse?