Science Explains Why The Rich Are Calling Everyone Nazis

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17. They should simply say no to the tax break they get on capital gains taxes, money they earn

on the stock market, money they earn by buying and then using loopholes that working people cannot use, money they keep because they earn it on their money and not from their work. That would help a lot.

There's no nobility in living in wealth and not bearing a share for paying a fair share of your money for the many amenities your enjoy. If you earn 300 times the money that other people earn, you should pay the taxes that the poor who earn so little they can barely have a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs would be paying if you shared a little more.

Sharing is a social skill. A rich person would be ashamed to sit at a table with a hungry poor person, order a huge, expensive meal and then sit and eat it in front of the poor person who is hungry. But he is not ashamed to live in a gated or guarded community, run his business so as to pollute the environment in places like Tennessee, West Virginia, etc. where poorer people live and then enjoy his country estate with its clean air and water.

And keeping the water and air clean requires government regulation or more conscientious management of industrial plants. The rich don't have to live on an average family income of $50,000 per year. They just should pay for the damage they do and to cover the needs of others a bit. It's called sharing. It's called taking responsibility for the damage you cause to others in your pursuit of wealth.

Think about the situation in the West Virginian chemical spill. Here we have Freedom Industries spilling poison into the water of huge numbers of people who are not wealthy. Freedom Industries was responsible whether they were negligent or not. But those who owned the facility from which the poison spilled will hide behind a corporate entity to avoid taking responsibility and paying for the damage they did. Just wait and see. The people who owned Freedom Industry and those who sold them the company shortly before the spill should have to make good the damage they did.

But they will externalize the cost of repairing the damage (assuming it can be repaired) and make the government pay for it. That's what they will do. That is why the "rich" are not so popular nowadays as they were in more innocent times. We can now see clearly and measure the havoc they cause in our world. The havoc they cause and then, like hit-and-run drivers, rush away from.