Top earners use power, influence, nepotism, and exploitation to increase their wealth, which federal income taxes (arguably) attempt to (partially) correct.
And you advocate for money-clutching politicians who consistently outspend their tax revenue and have driven the USA into a national debt of $31,000,000,000,000 - though some argue it is much larger than that. Let's see, $31,000,000,000,000 divided by the US population of about 331,000,000 means a per capita debt of about $94,000. And since only roughly half the US population pays Federal taxes, a per Federal taxpayer debt of roughly $187,000.
It's long past time to stop with your class warfare and to reduce the insane spending.
About 70% of the debt is either held by the US government or by american investors and institutions. It's silly to talk about the debt in terms of per capita owed.
Low income people commit way more crimes than wealthy people. This is just silly that the poor think good people are somehow bad. Is Barack Obama a bad person? Is Warren Buffet a bad person? Most wealthy people have good familes, they donate to charity, they create jobs, they do their best to help people, and they make for a better future for everyone.
This is socialism. Check out Venezuela. IT.DOES.NOT.WORK!
Quit complaining about rich people paying all the taxes then. The only way everyone pays the same amount of tax is if they earn the same!
Nobody complains that the rich pay all the taxes. Some people are just clever enough to see the absurdity in the people who pay very little or zero taxes whining about the rich not paying enough.
Reduce inequality and the figures look "better". Assuming you don't care about inequality, you have a few options:
1. Reduce taxes on the rich and cut spending. (unpopular unless you are rich)
2. Reduce taxes on the rich and borrow more (this is what we've been doing for decades)
3. Raise taxes on the poor. This doesn't really work because poor people already don't have adequate income to survive and pay more taxes.
Whether or not you want to use the word "fair", progressive tax systems work and are necessary given the current state of affairs.
4. actually bring back risk to commercial activities. In an economic downturn dont manipulate credit to keep companies afloat. Dont rescue companies, instead let them go bust. In downturns the wealth destruction will be much much more pronounced for very rich people this way as it should be. Yes this will also hurt workers, but they dont have much wealth already. Also new companies will take the place of old bankrupt ones with a chance to make new competent people rich over those that inherited older companies.
What? Let's look at the few dozen people who break 13:20. There are thousands of runners who break 15 minutes. Whad do the tens of thousands of slowere runners contribute? The top runners never compete against anyone over 14 minutes.
Nobody pays to watch a 13:20 runner either, they pay to watch a sub 13 minute runner beat the 13:20 guy.
4 runners in the Olympic final will be in the bottom 50%, their role is to be competitive with the guys the spectators paid to watch them beat. Nobody paid to watch Usain Bolt run on his own did they.
