I'm on a site which I frequent regularly, and there's a piece on austerity; you know, the conservative answer to our economic crisis, to cut programs that help people. That's my not so deep political explanation of what austerity is.
But my point is not to analyze the austerity agenda.
Commenting on the piece, someone was asserting that the rich pay more in taxes. Someone else pointed out: Yes, the rich pay more because they have more. The poor do not.
Nailed it.
I mean, that's the whole point, to me. There's a serious problem of some of us not getting paid enough, and a lop-sided, wrongly set up economic system based in wrong values.
I'd want to know who these people think should be getting paid what. I used to teach and take care of people with developmental disabilities. I got paid barely more than minimum wage; which is not enough to live on. There was a time when I had to borrow money to pay rent, buy groceries and pay the bills. Executives for oil companies have no such problems. Why is that?
Which brings me to the next point.
Mr. The Rich Pay Higher Taxes pipes in again to say that Kennedy even said that lowering taxes boosts the economy because then people have money to buy new homes and cars and buy conveniences.
Well, if they lowered my taxes, I'd have to borrow less from family and friends to pay rent and buy groceries and pay bills. And the rich get a few more free pay days. Neat for me!
Then someone, who thinks the set-up is just fine and dandy how some of us get paid less and some way too much more, said I was delusional. The irony.
Dealt with more backward people than I care to mention.
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