Society's Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor

[Bill USA]

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17960-the-biggest-takers-and-societal-parasites-are-the-rich-not-the-working-class-and-poor

This is a great article to use for reference.. when commenting on sites for the lumpenproletariate.

PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and "stop the motor" by withdrawing themselves from the system of production. In a perverse twist on the writer's theme the prediction is coming true. But instead of productive people rejecting taxes, rejected taxes are shutting down productive people.

Perhaps Ayn Rand never anticipated the impact of unregulated greed on a productive middle class. Perhaps she never understood the fairness of tax money for public research and infrastructure and security, all of which have contributed to the success of big business. She must have known about the inequality of the pre-Depression years. But she couldn't have foreseen the concurrent rise in technology and globalization that allowed inequality to surge again, more quickly, in a manner that threatens to put the greediest offenders out of our reach.

Ayn Rand's philosophy suggests that average working people are 'takers.' In reality, those in the best position to make money take all they can get, with no scruples about their working class victims, because taking, in the minds of the rich, serves as a model for success. The strategy involves tax avoidance, in numerous forms.


Corporations Stopped Paying

In the past twenty years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percent has dropped by half. The payroll tax, paid by workers, has doubled.

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[Warpy]

1. Yes, they are, which is why they create Orwellian names

for their class like "major investors" and "job creators" to hide the fact that they're just parasiting on people who work for a living.

It's also why I currently describe my occupation as a capitalist parasite after a working class life punctuated by periods of real poverty.

I know where my money is coming from and I'm grateful for every dime. I would like to increase the take by raising wages significantly. The depression of wages as a government policy has run its course and has led to a near depression economy in this country.

Most of the problems faced by 99% of the people in this country stem from that policy of wage depression.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Like the parasite corporate raider Romney, raids pension funds and with one company costing

American tax payers $44M to replace it, a reference al parasite.

[Half-Century Man]

3. Our economic tapeworm

Just as surely as a biological tapeworm will kill our bodies; The economic tapeworm of the super rich will kill our country.


I say a corporation is not an individual but a society, one existing only to generate profit. It has no soul or political agenda, just a financial agenda. As it is non-existent in the political sense, it has no rights concerning political causes or outcomes; it should be forbidden from political contributions. Any incorporated entity needs to be included in this definition (I mean persons incorporated for taxation reasons).

[mbperrin]

4. Adam Smith did not think stock corporations should be allowed to exist.

Neither do I.

He argued that eliminating individual risk in business would lead to irresponsible behavior.

In 1776, he argued that.

Was he ever right.

[libodem]

5. .

[siligut]

6. The myth of vampires

Well-heeled parasites who drain the life blood of humans.