Cafe: Their There?
I love this breakdown. It shows how speedily one can confuse the discussion using meaningless terms like "the rich" and including telling statistics.
In other words, if "the rich" are getting it over on the rest of us over the last 25 years because they are getting even more of the pie than they were before, does that demonstrate a built in level of unfairness and abuse that justifies government bullying?
Not if the rich of 25 years ago are not the same people that are rich today.
And nevermind the fact that the rich doing better does not necessarily mean the rest of us are doing worse. Further, when all of the "us" we're discussing (citizens of the USA) are in the world's 95th percentile, how much more fair can it get? And if we're really going for fairness, why aren't we giving all our money to poor folks in China, India, North Korea and Iran?
I love this breakdown. It shows how speedily one can confuse the discussion using meaningless terms like "the rich" and including telling statistics.
In other words, if "the rich" are getting it over on the rest of us over the last 25 years because they are getting even more of the pie than they were before, does that demonstrate a built in level of unfairness and abuse that justifies government bullying?
Not if the rich of 25 years ago are not the same people that are rich today.
And nevermind the fact that the rich doing better does not necessarily mean the rest of us are doing worse. Further, when all of the "us" we're discussing (citizens of the USA) are in the world's 95th percentile, how much more fair can it get? And if we're really going for fairness, why aren't we giving all our money to poor folks in China, India, North Korea and Iran?
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