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Originally Posted by theaetatus
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Vote to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. That will surely solve all such social problems!
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Do you speak entirely in bumper sticker slogans?
The poor of today are much more wealthy than the poor of the past. Rich people being rich does not make poor people poor, that's absurd. Rich people, for one thing, often employ thousands of people. They can't do that without being rich. When you raise taxes on the super wealthy, the government ends up collecting *less* total money, because the rich find legal ways to make their wealth tax exempt to avoid the high taxation. The super wealthy already contribute something like 70% of all federal tax revenue. So go ahead and continue to be jealous and envious and covetous of other people. We should just make you high emperor so you can decree how much money people are allowed to have, comrade.
Far leftists always seem to think that wealth just sort of magically appears, and it's a simple question of how it's distributed "fairly". Wealth is created. A dirt poor immigrant can become incredibly rich by the end of their life in this country, it happens all the time.