This is what upsets me. Why am I typing on the Internet while millions of people per year are starving to death? On the other hand, why am I still having medication problems when the wealthy have fleets of yachts? Most poor people aren't lazy. I know because I've met a lot of them. Most of them are just unlucky. It is unconscionable that I have so much more than others who put even more effort into life than I do, and it is still unjustified, though less culpable, that I have less than others who put less effort into life than I do. If there is a way of equalizing everyone without causing universal poverty, I will find it.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Okay, I'd just raise taxes on the highest income bracket to 50% and close all corporate tax loopholes.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

sympathize with your moral dilemma but I.M.O. it is pointless to expect to get alot of taxes from corporations- in an era of globalization, they can always find ways to escape taxes or the can pass the expense on to the consumer. It is more appropriate to tax wealth. Unearned income should be taxed more heavily than earned income. Sales taxes are O.K. as long as they exclude food, health care , clothing and housing. Yeh, I know that someone will find fault with any sort of tax system but someone has to pay the tab and the question is how to craft a system that is relatively fair and does not stifle incentive. Its past time to shrink the defense budget or expect the wealthy to pay for it - they are the ones who benefit from it.

It's sickening what the rich do. They essentially say, "Tax us and we'll sulk and throw everybody into a recession, but cut our taxes and we might throw a few crumbs to the poor". I went crazy again recently thanks to problems with my prescriptions (as you already know if you've seen my recent posts), and some already wealthy corporate executive is getting richer off my insanity. Of course, I live in paradise compared with those who actually do live in poverty, and meanwhile the rich must have their parties and their yachts.

Here is the thing. Someone had to put the money into researching medicine in order to develop it properly. Someone has to come up with the ideas. Someone has to market it. IF we pose extremely high taxes on those that are responsible for these unmistakably important tasks, we will discourage production and ultimately send companies overseas.

In other words, as I feared, Social Darwinism is inevitable. I'll continue to fight it in vain, though.

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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Where have all the Conservatives Gone?

Give that "speech" to a beggar on the street.

that was really rude.

So is your signature... and so is the far-flung rhetoric of somebody who rationalizes away human misery with rhetoric associating capitalism with the "spiritual".