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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
But we're not. Never will be. There are heirs to enormous fortunes that don't lift a finger.
If the government takes the same from the rich heir that they take from the schoolteacher, there won't be enough money to run anything.
We can't have this system which allows 400 people to have more than 1/2 the country and then expect everyone to pay the same in taxes. It can't work.
So higher taxes is one of the heavy crosses millionaires have to bear.
Or we can have socialism, I guess, where everyone has the same amount. Then nobody can bitch about having to pay more in taxes than a firefighter or special ed teacher.
-- Bill Maher
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A bank has more money than I do, so therefore I should be allowed to go in and appropriate some of it for my own means? Ok, that's clearly theft.
Bill Gates has more money than we all do, so therefore, 10,000 of us should be allowed to go in and appropriate a large portion of his earnings just to balance things out? OK, that sounds like theft too.
How about we get our representatives to change things so that big earners have it removed automatically and we'll call it taxation? Yeah, that sounds fair......
All three scenarios are the same thing. It's forceful taking. If you give 10 cents of your dollar and I end up giving 23 cents, that extra 13 is because I am being forced to give it, plain and simple. Just because I can "afford" to doesn't change that it's being forcefully taken.
Socialism doesn't work. It sounds nice, but it just doesn't work.
I appreciate the firefighters and the teachers and the soldiers and the garbagemen, but honestly, WTF do they always get brought out for the argument? Why do people forget that these jobs were chosen and not forced? I don't know of a single teacher where they have ever said..... "I was forced to be a teacher"... Same goes for firefighters, policemen, soldiers, politicians. Stop the idea that this "public service" is actually public service. These people chose these jobs!!!! They accepted the contracts to work there when they started.... And at that point people disagreed about the wage. That's fuckin irony right there people. "I'll take the job, thanks. I didn't want to be unemployed" ..... to ...... "You expect me to work for these wages??? Are you kidding me??? What do you think I am, an animal?!?!?!?!"
I don't teach because I saw the wages they earn and I chose a different field. I don't actually work in the field I was educated in because the monetary and time aspects of it were different than I desired at the time. I have a wife, I have a family, I have faced economic struggle and disaster yet I still pressed on. Why should I feel sorry for a single one of them? They can do exactly the same. Continue with what ya got or move on. BTW, my life didn't change overnight, it took almost a decade. They should expect it to not come overnight either. Pick up a book and educate yourself. Buy some better clothing to represent yourself in a new way. Do the things that make yourself marketable. You cannot change earnings from 20K to 150K overnight, but you can certainly do better over time and stop bitching that no one will help you. Help yourself. It's the only way out of being in a problem.
Stop taking other people's money and find ways to achieve your own success. Everything else is just class oriented legalized theft.