Quote from Bob111:
hahhh...you must be fucking kidding, right?
i saw that one too...after USSR collapse...and there was another one..a bit earlier in Russia-1917..read the history..
sorry, but to me poor=stupid,lazy person. the gap you are talking about is widening, because the lazy became even lazier and in this quote below rich should be substituted by poor.
they certainly have no incentive..because there so many support programs for poor provided by government and btw-poor are not paying any taxes anyway,while "rich" are giving 40-50% of their income. so you got your equalization already. Thank you Barry O and Co
Shortie's idea wouldn't work because of the 80/20 rule, which is known as Pareto's principle.
I agree with you on the poor = stupid & lazy. The part that gets me right now is that the government is providing less service and is increasing the tax it collects. This is just a giant subsidy to the lazy-class, and by lazy-class I tend to include government employees and those that receive corporate welfare also.
I'd like for there to be just ONE state in the US where there is:
- A modest sales tax
- No property tax
- No state income tax
- No public schooling, all just private schooling
I would move there overnight without hesitation and I would actively employ people immediately. If a large-scale tax revolt starts, count me in. I want real property ownership again in this country. The laws are crafted right now so that there's always enough of the lazy and poor to mathematically dilute the vote and prevent the respect of property rights. You could argue that we could educate the poor and the stupid, but this class of people can not be educated through reason, only through charisma and mainstream-media style manipulation.