Things you dislike about your country.

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Believe it or not there really is such a thing as envy and it does drive some people to attack those that have what they don't.
Forget trying to make me feel guilty because you can't and I'll just post more.

I guess what astounds me about the argument over taxes is how people can be so sympathetic toward people who make millions, and who with even a 30% tax would still be rich beyond your and my dreams, while ignoring the plight of the poor. How can someone have more compassion for the rich than for the poor? I don't get it.

People sometimes go so far as to say the poor bring their problems on themselves, when in fact it's the unbalanced distribution of income that is the biggest cause of poverty. If a CEO is willing to live on 3 or 4 times the pay of the lowest paid workers, for what they consider their superior intelligence or selling ability, maybe that's getting close to equitable. But they don't, they're not content with that. They want millions more.

Work is work, effort is effort, and no one works 24 hours a day. If someone is willing to do the humble work that others don't want or that others think is beneath them, I think that deserves some consideration. In my perfect world no one would make some obscene, unreasonable amount of money they don't even have time to spend, or have to make up ways of spending, like helicopter ski trips, seven vacation homes, designer wardrobes and one face lift after another. Instead everyone who contributes would share in that, and the surplus would be put into infrastructure, into making the world better for everyone. We live in an abundant world, but you wouldn't know it to see how most people in the world live.

What does all this greed mean? It simply means that some people think they're better than everyone else, that they have a right to live off the labors of everyone else and live 1,000 times better while they're at it. That, my friends, is just sick. Yet we reward this behavior and protect them from paying their share of taxes, if they pay taxes at all.

Very well said indeed, there is absolutley no justifiable reason for the gigantic rift between the rich and poor. Why should a single person have more than enough money for 100 people to live on? They are never going to spend all that....and I thought for the economy to run it helps if consumers buy products rather then filling rooms with cash all in an attempt to keep it in the wealthy families. And then having the government pumping out more money which causes inflation.

When the burger flipper has paid for food, clothing and shelter, that has used up a huge proportion of available income. When the CEO has paid for (more expensive) food, clothing and shelter, there's a great left over. And that's where the real justification for progressive taxation is to be found.

I am sure they all go their money through 'honest means.' anyways if the wealthy are not willing to contribute then yeah unfortunatly it has to be forced.

If it where the only way to survive then Id do it....not saying I would approve but yeah if i was desprate it would become more tempting. But since there is that whole social safety network anyone can be pushed to the point of doing immoral things, so why would a policy that pushes people closer to that point be effective?