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quaker bill

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6. Economically
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 08:21 AM
Sep 2012

there is no essential need for poverty, and no need for it to be shared. If the excesses were pared back just a bit, say 10 to 20 percent, and this wealth rationally distributed, there would be no significant true poverty, and the rich would still possess ungodly wealth, just not quite so much.

The US GDP is roughly $50,000 per year for every single person, split evenly. So if split evenly a family of 4 would have $200,000, instead of the median family of 4 income being +/- 50K.

I would not argue that things should be split evenly, but it would be no problem at all to split things so that the working poor got another 10K a year. The economy would be fine with just a little less profit at the top.

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