"If you made 110 points on my test then you can afford to give some to the person who made 72"

[OnionPatch]

96. Who's to say they didn't work just as hard?

That's part of the problem.....if everyone who "worked hard" were compensated accordingly, we wouldn't have to have government help for working people (except for unemployment benefits if they unexpectedly lose their job.) The problem is that there are armies of workers out there working their butts off and not even receiving enough to live on. They and/or their dependents are eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, subsidized housing, etc., etc. because their employers are too freakin' cheap to pay them a living wage. Please explain this to your daughter. There is a big old pie that is the fruit of ALL of our labor. Because the rich hold the knife, they cut themselves an obscenely huge piece of the pie, in fact they take most of it and leave the tiniest shaving for the rest of us to share among us. I don't think it's wrong that the business owner take a larger slice for himself, but the size of the slices they take these days is just outrageous. They feel they are "entitled" to cheap labor. It's so wrong that we have to subsidize hard working people because the rich are too greedy to pay them a living wage.