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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
My point is we have basically become a corpocracy. The average person has very little say in what goes on in government yet we are having tens of billions of dollars in debt dumped on us via their bailouts and on top of that they are avoiding paying taxes in record numbers. The amassing of wealth by the wealthiest is a startling trend that is increasingly shrinking the middle class. Small businesses are not given the same breaks that the corps get making it very hard to for someone to succeed on their own. The corps want to keep us as worker/consumer bees as this is what keeps their machine going.
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Thank you.
while I agree with you that the bailouts were wrong and never should have happened, I also believe that corporations should never be taxed in the first place. EVERY dime that comes out of a corp and goes into someone's pocket is taxed. regardless of the lies the left and the simple tell.
We also have been thrust into a global economy by idiot politicians during a time when we should have had strong economical isolationist policies in place to protect our high standard of living. Now that we're in the global economy, corporations can shop around for the best tax rates and set up shop in that country. That cat is out of the bag.
As far as amassing wealth goes, people becoming richer, does NOTHING to the middle class. The middle class have more now than they ever have and thats a fact. Additionally, 99.9% of today's rich are first or second generation who rose up from the middle class, meaning that our middle class has the most opportunity of any middle class on the planet.
Lastly, I own a small business. I've made more money than I've ever thought possible when I was younger. I know plenty of other small business owners who are doing well. Success is as easy as it ever was for those who want to work hard to get ahead.
The problem is, ows wants something HANDED to them that the rest of us fought tooth and nail to EARN.