Ohh, pooooor baby. Are those 19 out of 20 people whose backs you're riding on ruining the ride with their complaining?
Why don't you convert the 5% number that surprised you so much 3 posts ago and reevaluate where you stand against worldwide wealth levels.
then maybe show a little humility and gratitude to be in such a fortunate position to have won the "i got to be a us citizen" lottery.
The top 5% SHOULD pay a third of the taxes because frankly they have the most to gain from government expenditures.
roads, airline regulation, SEC, treasury spending, military spending, telco subsidies, oil subsidies, S&L bailouts, the internet, the fcc, police to keep your belongings safe, insurance regulators, cheap oil paid for by the lives of children from the same people you're ragging on...you and I are the real beneficiaries at the end of the day of all these services. The government is your business partner. You may not like his split, but without him looters would have kicked you out of your house and put a bullet in you a long time ago.
Maybe it will help you to think of welfare as a protection money paid to those 19 other people that you outearn. It keeps them from deciding their life sucks so bad that they might as well die and hell why not just take the rich asshole keeping them down along for the ride.
I say this as a person that outearns you by a lot, pays more taxes, yet grew up in a city with 20% unemployment. What do *you* actually know first hand about what it's like to be poor. Because 3 posts ago you didn't even know you were wealthy. You feel like its hard to be the 1 out of 20.
So seriously, really try feel in your head for a minute what it might be like to be in the other end's 5%. You think its hard now, you have no idea but theres 19 people in a circle around you that will explain it to you if you just open your eyes and ears a little. At the very least let them complain a little about their circumstance *just like your rich ass was a few posts ago!*
I'm sure you'll disregard this and talk about how hard you work and how smart you are and you earned everything you have.
meanwhile thousands of offshore indian programmers that are 10 times smarter and work three times as many hours smirk bitterly alongside the working poor.
i hope if nothing else you feel *really* wealthy now, because you fucking are.
