Walmarts like a small country

[ballen0351]

I would have thought America and the wealth of America should be the property of the people. The inequality is extreme, a little like what has happened in Russia where the cronies of the politicians have snapped up all the nation's resources.
so yes, the rich can be rich but 1% of the population owning 40% of the wealth? Wow!

The wealth is property of the people. The people that earned it.
So what's your solution? How much money is too much? And when we take the extra cash who gets it?

 

[arnisador]

What's the saying? The difference in America is that everyone thinks they're just a temporarily impoverished millionaire?

 

[arnisador]

John Steinbeck: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

 

[ballen0351]

What's the saying? The difference in America is that everyone thinks they're just a temporarily impoverished millionaire?

Not me. I'll never be a millionaire. But I'm happy and content with what I have. I don't look with jealously at the 1% and demand their heads taking every opportunity I can to attack them because of their paycheck.

 

[arnisador]

I'm not attacking them. Good for them! But we still have to set tax rates somehow.

 

[ballen0351]

I'm not attacking them. Good for them! But we still have to set tax rates somehow.

We have a tax rate and its too high and too complicated in my opinion.

 

[arnisador]

Big companies made it complicated through their buying of congressmen via lobbyists and campaign contributions.

 

[ballen0351]

Big companies made it complicated through their buying of congressmen via lobbyists and campaign contributions.

Big companies dont make tax code politicians do. How many congressmen have you voted to send back to congress? If you really have a problem with it why do you keep voting them back?

 

[billc]

I enjoy the thread Ballen. Of course it's government spending too much...stop that and the other problems solve themsleves...