2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why should the rich pay more taxes? [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)pretty much count on another heart attack in, oh, about five years. My parents are on Medicare and a supplement program that costs a good chunk of change each month. And still a lot is not paid for. He's not employed full time. He works for FEMA on a per job basis. He's a civil engineer, so it's not bad work, but it's no cash cow. Even though he does like the job and does have that thing men of his generation have of identifying strongly with their career role, I don't think he'd be planning to continue working if he didn't feel he had to .
I can't imagine how awful it must be for people who lost their entire retirement fund through Bain-type theft. Why is a promise a promise when it comes to paying Wall Street sharks their exorbitant salaries and bonuses, but not when it comes to promise that workers would have a retirement fund.
Greed and immorality. And, here we are back to where we started, a huge chunk of the wealth of this nation stolen by the 1%. Tax the hell out of the m*therf*ckers and redistribute the wealth back where it belongs.