Who is the wealth being redistributed to?

[tniassaint.livejournal.com]

I find it astounding that so many people seem to buy into this teet suckling mythology. Yes, there are people on public assistance. No - the overwhelming majority of those people do not live large, get wealthy or even WANT to be on it...  The ones that do are rare and should be ferreted out as fraudsters. It's maddening. When we talk the real issue of social aid in the US, issues like what costs the nation more than NOT providing a social safety net, where is the cost /  benefit of providing it, even who actually gets aid... the most direct benefit - things look different.

I paid a HIGHER percentage of my measly income than Mittens... He got a tax deduction for owning a freakin SHOW PONY that was more than my family annual income... for a HOBBY HORSE! And that was one of the SMALLER deductions... And any company that actually PAYS the supposedly high corporate tax rate should fire their accountant as an incompetent. The real corporate tax rate is MUCH lower. We give companies breaks - they have racked up the largest coffers in history, they pay LOWER tax rates (wealthy people and corporations alike) than they have in my life time and they STILL think it is too much tax  - and here we find that ,because the lack of jobs, the shrinking real wages of workers are in decline, people are finding their company provided health care disappearing or becoming absurdly expensive, people feel like they need a small bit of help to get them over their immediate problems in ways that will ultimately help the economy at large...   - but these companies  and the wealth people of this country whine and complain that they pay too much taxes and these teet sucklers are not much more than greedy, lazy sheep. You cannot make these money sucking black holes happy for ANYTHING. This is not what the founders had in mind...

And these founders? They were mere men. They were not divine, they were not smarter than the smartest people of today. They had limitations, for sure. They used the rules and knowledge and philosophy of the Eighteenth Century to answer eighteenth century problems - they did a great job... but to pretend that it was the end product with no possibility of improvement is, well... regressive and illogical. Most people in the US know this is a morally bankrupted belief. It's illogical and a flat out lie. Trickle down economics doesn't trickle down. It is a failed economic fantasy proposed to defraud the masses for the sake of enriching the few. If there is a grand plan to redistribute wealth, then why is the wealth going up those that already have most of that money? It IS being redistributed... but not in the direction you think!

Comments

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Surely even you can see the stupidity of using inequalities of treatment to justify further inequalities of treatment.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Certainly, there are better ways to address systemic problems. I do not deny that transfer payments are merely band-aids applied to debilitating injustices.