Is Economic inequality really a deep national shame?

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Is Economic inequality a DEEPEST NATIONAL SHAME, or what God intended?

  1. Yes, an economic system should be judged on how many it raises to dignity.

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  2. No, the only shame is those losers that dont reach elite status.

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  1. Jimmy79

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    Then why all the hysteria around the minimum wage?

    Profit is a good thing. Businesses that dont make a profit dont stay in business. If businesses close down, those poor people dont have any job at all.
     
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    What are you talking about? There is nothing socialized about my statement...it is some redistritubtion of wealth...from a buyers of product and services to sellers. That's called capitalism. Nothing is forced.
     
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    yes, profit is a good thing, but not at the expense of the Poor. Business gets to expense the cost of labor. A fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage is a simple cost of living adjustment.
     
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    economics.

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/
     
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    fundamentals matter under Capitalism. simply financing Government and calling it Good, is just wealth redistribution.
     
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    Where do you think those expenses are paid from? That $15 an hour wage costs the business owner upwards of $20 an hour when you add in taxes
     
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    This is ironic, since the most unequal income exists in the most liberal left cities in the US. Go to San Francisco, or Seattle, and the there exists the largest disparity between the haves and the have nots. And yet, income inequality is supposed to be some kind of a right-wing conspiracy.
     
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    Of course we have to finance Govt...that's what taxes are...Govt doesn't actually create anything. We have to work in society, and pay taxes to fund Govt.
     
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    a disingenuous argument; the more Labor costs the more business gets to Expense.
     
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    https://www.usdebtclock.org/
     
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    And where do you think the business owner gets the money to pay all these expenses?
     
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    ...and in a business with high labor costs, it really cuts into their profitability. Something will have to give.

    Either the business owner will need to raise prices for their customers, eliminate some of their employees, or replace human workers with automation.
     
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    Yeah the Govt spends way to much money, could you imagine how much more they'd spend under your unemployment insurance plan??
     
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    In the land of the leftist Utopia, every business owners has a bottomless money pit.
     
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    I the poor get poorer, how exactly do the rich get richer? If the poor only have enough money for the barest of essentials, how exactly do the rich take their money?

    If the poor don't have money for anything but food, clothing and the roof over their head, then the only rich people, who are the ones ostensibly taking all the money from the poor, would be landlords, and the owners of grocery stores and clothing stores.
     
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    income minus expenses equals taxable income.
     
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    Again, read Essay # 10 of the Federalist Papers.
     
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    solving for simple poverty means a positive multiplier effect, guaranteed.
     
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    nobody takes the right wing seriously about economics.

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/
     
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    fiscal policy and tax cut economics only helps the richest get richer.
     
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    We can find no whites living below the middle class.... and obviously because whites are evil cave devils they did not earn their middle class status they stole from the brown people. Is that where you are going with this?

    If you hadn't noticed, there is a worldwide movement of brown people to live next to white people.... WORLD WIDE. Whites are the greatest evil on earth and horrifically oppress brown people and yet brown people are flooding white countries in their millions. Can you make up your damn minds?
     
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    capitalism is the only system that has ever successfully taken people out of poverty.
     
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    Inequality is natural, and fair.

    We don’t want a society that rewards everyone equally, regardless of their talent or hard work.
     
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    where do you get your propaganda and rhetoric from?

    capitalism died in 1929 and socialism has been bailing out capitalism ever since.
     
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