...Today, the average American in poverty lives a lifestyle comparable to that of the average American family in the 1970s.
That is one of the more ridiculous statements I've seen on this forum Fezzy.
We don't 'give' poor people anything, fezzy, that is the whole point. We give everything to the elite, with some dribblings for the upper-middle class just to set the system up for hubris based duping. But all this has to come out of someone's life blood and efforts - these are the workers.
Their 'success' is simply political power - ownership - fezzy. It is obscene to suggest that oppressed people should just be happy with their condition.
Money and power are the same thing, fezzy. Another way to say this is money is just a representation of power.
No, because society is a system in which each of us is a cog, festoon, and while it is natural of you to want to avoid the issue of the man you're bleeding to gain your advantages, you can see why he might bleat a bit.
Indirect tax on the poor. No free person should EVER pay more then 45% of their income in taxes.
One of the few things I think we'll ever agree on. Though I say no more than 50%.
It seems fundamentally unfair for you not have the majority share of benefit from your work.
They don't 'work', Mr. Mod. They get to keep the majority share of
other people's work.