more weird conservative logic...

I mean, come on...

later viewing

haha, preach, brother!

Not sure how people are still refuting the wealth gap. Oh wait, there are STILL people that deny climate change...

LOL

This is what happens when you're an old world business type that only knows your formulas. The world is changing, and specifically, the general population is changing. People are beginning to see the environment as a thing and are willing to pay a little extra for eco-conscious products.

Mergers and acquisitions over decades and decades are a major cause of the massive wealth gap in America. Take a look at how other countries consider and take care of their citizens when large monopolistic corporations come about and compare that to the steamroller method of the US.

This is the problem of have an unchecked capitalism-based economy with politicians and lawmakers being bought by the very corporations they should be regulating.

When I say this to most people (usually conservatives) they knee-jerk call me a commie socialist. I have to explain that capitalism is still the greatest economic model so far, but we're still new at it. We're testing the bounds. In 2008 we saw one limit of unchecked, un-regulated capitalism and it nearly destroyed the world.

We just need to make some tweaks, not throw out the entire system.

What's sad or frustrating is that conservative media has so ingrained in their followers' minds that limiting the extreme excesses is some form of "punishment" of successful people. They seem to not really get that some of these people make$50,000+ per HOUR! If we taxed them down to something like $20,000 per hour - they're still doing INCREDIBLY well, and I have yet to hear someone make a legit case that "you just can't live on $20,000/hour, I need more".

I think it's a problem with the sheer scale of the numbers that people don't quite grasp. If you're making $50k a year, and I suggested to cut you $20k a year, that might actually kill you. You can't reasonably take that kind of paycut without selling off all your stuff and moving into a shell of what you had. It seems it's that_scenario that people envision when we talk about taxing the super rich. And in that scenario, it _is a punishment. But that's not what anyone is talking about.