Why Do Conservatives Defend / Protect The Super-Rich?

[Ross Dolan]

Hi Politalker,



My 2 cents is:
People who don't own a home, have health care, paid vacations etc should focus on acquiring those things, not worrying that other people have more than they do.

The problem with raising taxes is, it's never enough for the crowd who thinks they're entitled to other people's wealth. I have no problem with paying taxes or our current progressive system. However, there's always "more good to be done" and I believe in a limited role for government. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

We have a spending problem AND a revenue problem.

Our spending problem is that we DO NOT spend anywhere near enough money where we should be spending it. We need to spend MUCH MORE on infrastructure, mass transit, education, and personal welfare.

MUCH MORE!

And in order to do so...we have to increase revenues.

I only hope that humanity last long enough so that SOMEDAY...we look back on the obscenely massive amounts of money we spend today on just "protecting" ourselves and others from EACH OTHER.

 

[iolo]

the trouble with old Sinkapot is that he's been brainwashed. We all pay taxes if we are earning enough, and we all benefit. He thinks he is a billionaire who never uses roads, because he flies everywhere, flapping his very large ears. In a crisis, he goes out with his little bang-bang and silences vast armies, so he doesn't need defence. All in all, we are bound to wonder if the bugger is human at all, and I must say I doubt it.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello Sirthinksalot,

Hi Politalker,

My 2 cents is:
People who don't own a home, have health care, paid vacations etc should focus on acquiring those things, not worrying that other people have more than they do.

It is not up to us what they focus on. It is up to them. Those who are destined to acquire those things are already on that trajectory. Those who are not will never do so because the capitalist system is designed to keep the poor poor, and continue taking advantage of them. What are you trying to do, kill the payday loan business AND the Buy Here Pay Here business? How about the Bail Bond business? Big tobacco still hangs on, and now there are many earning big money in the vape business. Would you deprive slum lords of their fat incomes? Taking advantage of the poor is BIG BUSINESS in the USA. A big chunk of our economy comes from taking advantage of the poor.

Before you blame the poor for their own condition you might want to take a look at all the well-off people preying on them.

The problem with raising taxes is, it's never enough for the crowd who thinks they're entitled to other people's wealth. I have no problem with paying taxes or our current progressive system. However, there's always "more good to be done" and I believe in a limited role for government. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Tax cuts have FAR OUTSTRIPPED tax hikes. Nobody has the fortitude to raise taxes. We do not have a spending problem. What we have is a tax cutting problem.

If we simply left taxes where they were decades ago we would not be so deep in federal debt.

We need to BOLD POLITICIANS who answer to the people and are willing to RAISE TAXES ON THE SUPER RICH so we can balance our budget, upgrade our infrastructure, energy supply and dilapidated education system.

The simple fact that so many people voted for Donald Trump shows how badly our education system has failed us. We should not have a big deficit when the economy is good.