Rhetoric understood, but still: satire isn’t satire when it’s exactly what your opponents do in fact want.
Unless you’re not Jim and hacked his account and are enjoying posting tempered absurdities, well Jim, it sure doesn’t help to post such things.
The Left _does_ want guaranteed minimum income with high & progressing taxes for anyone making more than that (distressingly, the Fair Tax actually implements a nearly-complete precursor to that). Yes, they also want those “rights”.
Ain’t funny, Jim.
Unfortunately we have a boatload of low information voters that are all in the democrat/liberal/progressive party that believes that to be a good plan! LOL.
Jim’s channelling e-warren
scary thing is, the entire left would whole heartedly agree
:o)
Jim you have confused wealth with income. Your proposal only tackles the problem of income inequality. We need to do something about wealth inequality. Wealth is not taxed. Income from wealth is taxed at a very low rate. You have done a very good job analyzing the situation to make income disparity disappear but we will need to do something about wealth disparity.
Maybe if you have more than $10,000 in the bank, take 90% of it? After all, we will need that money to help pay the minimum income guarantee. Either that, or maybe we top up everyone’s savings account to $10,000 if they have less than that, and take the rest if they have more. That should keep it fair. But we have to be sure that you can’t spend that money without approval because you may not spend it right.
And homes? It is crazy that there are situations where one or two people live in a large single family home, while at the same time there are families of 5 or 6 or more who live in apartments. I think we should do something about that too.
Gee, that sounds fair to me.
/sarc
I often talk about Venezuala with both Dems and Repubs. I am constantly amazed that we all agree that the average life of a Venezualen is horrible, yet very few understand how it got that way.
I understand your frustration, and as a result I read your post with well earned sarcasm. Sadly, many an American agrees with it, yet don’t understand that it will create a Venezuelan lifestyle!
If you add up all the different welfare and healthcare benefits, then add to those the gov’t employee salaries and pensions and their healthcare benefits for each and every program that distributes those benefits, it could be cheaper. But that would leave all those gov’te employee paper pushers with nothing to do, and we can’t fire them so we wouldn’t save money because they would just draw a paycheck for doing nothing a full eight hours a day.