This is in response to the guy who said liberals hate the rich. We don't. We just believe in equality of economic opportunity. Every person regardless of social class should be given the opportunity to succeed. You do this with such things as the GI Bill for soldiers, state subsidized universities, student grants, subsidized loans, job training, etc. To protect against aristocracy in America, taxes to pay for these programs are shifted towards those who can most afford it.
Without policies that level the playing field the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
What happens when the gap between the rich and poor becomes too great? You get such things as the French and Russian Revolutions where the poor kill the rich.
"All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American."
- Thedore Roosevelt
2007-04-04
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