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Originally Posted by GrowSpecialist
No, we live in a SELFISH society where rich people horde money and sit in their mansions eating lobster next to their nice cozy fireplace while poor children go hungry.
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Liberal myth.
Show me a poor child going hungry and I'll show you a neglectful parent who does not choose to take advantage of the social welfare programs already in place. Someone who places their own needs above the needs of their children. Now that is
selfish.
Show me a poor hungry child and I'll show you a food bank. I'll show you WIC. I'll show you AFDC. I'll show you food stamps. I'll show you free breakfast and free lunch programs in the public schools. I'll show you private charities.
Show me a rich person and I'll show you someone who works their ass off and deserves to do whatever they wish with their earnings. What you dismiss as hording, I call saving.
Poor people do not directly create jobs. They create jobs indirectly through their demand. Big-government jobs: social workers, the state lottery, and plenty of administrators and various other bureaucrats. Jobs for payday advance companies, pawn brokers, and rent-to-own stores. Jobs for the tobacco and alcohol industries.
Wealthy people do create jobs directly by starting and running successful businesses, and indirectly through savings and investment. They create jobs when they build those mansions and buy that lobster.
Selfish is someone who chooses to be a net drain on society rather than a net producer. Poor people do not pay income taxes, but the wealthy pay plenty. Divide this country in half and the top half pays 97% of all income taxes. The bottom half pays 3%. The higher the income the more taxes are paid. In fact, the top 10% of earners pay over 70% of
all income taxes.