Let’s Get This Class War Started

[nil desperandum]

31. Taxes

Agreed,

I like to use the example of business to my conservative acquaintances since they love to throw around business references when discussing how best to run government.

I ask them if they have ever owned a business or had a partner, most of them have not. I then explain that in any business where one partner owns 80% of the business and collects 80% of the profits the 20% partner is never responsible for 50% of the upkeep or capital improvements. I then ask them if they are aware that the folks with the most income in the US own over 80% of all the wealth and have access to over 80% of the resources, most don't know that. I then ask them if those people who own 80% of the wealth why would we ever expect them to only shoulder 10% of any tax reform burden? Just like a business those who own the most wealth owe the most money to operate the government, it's not a redistribution of wealth it's actually those people paying their fair share...I realize I am oversimplifying this, but it always kills me that people buy into the redistribution of wealth propaganda from the right...I don't disagree that some of those people worked their 4sses off to get super rich, but it doesn't excuse their obligation to pay their fair share at tax time at the expense of those who have less and own less of the overall wealth of the nation...