Hey
@UnderGrace
Since poor and middle class society are too busy living pay check to pay check few have more than 6 mos income saved. The wealthy save, invest or send money offshore. Trickle down (voo doo) economics dosn't work. It's proven!
But the poor & middle class spend most of their income quickly so instead of giving tax shelters to the rich let's flip the script and give that money to the folks that spend it. It'll wind up in the pockets of the wealthy any way and the poor will have a better standard of living too. Just a thought.
The "Eat The Rich" philosophy is always a non-starter. And people espousing the principle never explain who these nebulous "poor" people are that they keep whinging about. The government has been throwing money at "the poor" for half a century and it hasn't solved the problem. Every billionaire in the country could give away half their money right now and it would not solve the problem of poverty. Jesus told the Disciples that the poor would
always exist and He never advocated forcefully removing people's money to care for them. He encouraged individuals who had the where-with-all to help the poor out of the goodness of their hearts to do so because
The Spirit lead them to.
What you want is for successful people to be monetarily punished for being successful. You want Socialism. Why does success irritate you? The problem with America's economic system is not Capitalism itself. The entire problem is government spending and unfunded entitlements. Why is it that people who forward your philosophy never apply the Biblical concept that people are supposed to
work for what they get instead of having it handed to them? Unfunded entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Food Stamps, Housing etc., make up almost half of the government's mandatory spending in the federal budget. You don't see a problem there? That funding comes from a deficit Black Hole, and the people receiving the money contribute
nothing to the system at all. Isn't the California Hippie Commune philosophy that everyone contributes to the system? Of course, in reality, the Hippie philosophy never worked because it was a collection of burn-outs who advocated anarchy and wanted everything handed to them. "Down with The Man, but I can't be bothered to find a job." Haves and Have Nots is not a symptom of Capitalism. It is a symptom of a fallen, sinful and selfish world. And that problem cannot be fixed, or even moderated by legislation.
If the successful are not giving their fair share, they will answer for that. It isn't up to you or the government to somehow force them to give up all their money.
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