Why do people think the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer has anything to do with the government

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Jerofjung... gave this answer about Congress:


Has to be better than what we are dealing with. Rich getting richer, Poor getting poorer, Borders not secure, Ports being sold to foreign interests, constant sabre rattling, and a Congress that has done nothing in the last 6 years of any signifigance.

Isn't the USA supposed to be a free market capitalist economy? Aren't people in charge of what they do with their lives?

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Is it just easier to blame the failures of yourself and your family on the government rather than take responsibility for your own actions?

Answer 1

>>>Is it just easier to blame the failures of yourself and your family on the government rather than take responsibility for your own actions?

BINGO !!!

And the the poor do NOT in any way, shape, or form pay more taxes. (absolute or percentage) Another typical excuse used by people. And a perfect example of the ignorance that exist about taxes.
As a matter of fact, many poor people not only do not pay any taxes, they actually get other people's money through vote buying tax credits.

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Answer 2

I like your way of thinking though I don't agree the poor are getting poorer. Too many, as most of the answers demonstrate, seem to believe that there is a big cash pie out there and that if anyone slices off a piece, that leaves less for others. In truth wealth is generated. The poor are getting richer too. As far as the poor paying most of the taxes, that is a demonstration of the complete and utter ignorance of some and the complete drowning in the Kool Aid of the left. The rich pay by far the most taxes. The bottom 50 per cent might pay 3 per cent of the income tax but not much more and the poorest don't pay any at all. When the poor don't pay taxes, they have no incentive to care about responsible government. When someone wants the government to pay for something or blames the government for something, really what they are doing is trying to make someone else work and pay for them and blame them for their problems.

Answer 3

because money and power go together like ears on a rabbit, who has the gold makes the rules, the money/power buys govt and runs it for the money/power, which steals national wealth - exactly what the founding fathers [the good ones] understood, and exactly what the people, for 200 years of perfect unvigilance, completely failed to protect democracy, liberty & justice for all, from - wealth concentration, which is unjust, ie theft, the rich get richer, the destruction of states

there would have been far less [like 99% less]racial conflict if wealth/power had been kept just and democratic - that's a lot of murder and serious bodily harm and grief and waste

'the great are rarely good' plato - the law is like spiders' webs: catches the little, and the big break thru - therefore if you want law and order and uncorruption, you have to limit fortunes to the just maximum that a person can truly earn by their contribution to society, to keep everyone below the law, no one above the law

a u.s. senate committee in the 1950s said big business was more powerful than the us govt [read the dollar and the vatican by avro manhattan] - private interests have owned the us money supply since 1913!!! - how unvigilant is that!!!

Answer 4

Not when the lowest paying jobs are below the standard of living in America. The rich get tax breaks, the poor have to pay taxes that do nothing for them. If the cost of living rises, so should minimum wage, yet people earning min. wage can't even make rent on their own. I don't think it's the individuals fault when they are working their butts off, living pay-cheque to pay-cheque. There has to be opportunity for people to advance themselves. Are they just supposed to go to school? With what money, and what time? Having a roof over their heads, and food in their mouths are basic human necessities. They can't put that at risk in the hopes that something better will come along, because, well, what if it doesn't.....


P.S. If you don't like my answer, fishman's got a really good one...

Answer 5

Poor people have EVERYTHING to do with our government. Without being able to get jobs in the first place and due to the fact every Republican in America HATES the poor and single women, they those PEOPLE are unable to support the families they need to feed.

It is ironic that the "religious" right (REPUBLICANS) who talk sooooo much about supporting the right to life also have managed to defund Planned Parenthood (which was defunded 5 years ago, as well as get rid of Food Stamps, Welfare and seek to destroy any possibility of a poor person to get food. In Texas, Oklahmophobia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina and even Florida literally have kicked the homeless off of the streets --

Yet the REPUBLICAN Party in Congress and in EVERY REPUBLICAN controlled legislature in the USA they continue to froth at the mouth over "Right to Life" and "Family Values" just to get votes...then REPUBLICANS vote against poor people 100% of the time when they win...

Answer 6

The government has shown itself to be generally more interested in catering to the special interest groups that elected them (history having shown that the candidate who spends the most money on their campaign almost always wins the election) than in the general public. With that in mind, decisions are generally going to benefit those groups that have the largest amount of free cash to contribute...not the general public. The rich have the most free cash to contribute...therefor...hence...

Rhetorical questions: Why do the rich pay the least, percentage-wise, amount of taxes, yet are continually receiving new tax breaks? Why does the government harp on the auto industry to produce cleaner cars that the public ultimately has to pay for and not enforce polution control laws on big industry when big industry contributes 96% of the polution in question? Just some things to think about.

Answer 7

The government makes economic decisions that affect the entire nation. It has a roll down affect. However, it is both the governments responsibility to make the best decision for this Nation and the personal responsibility for the individual to do the best that they can to change their circumstances.

However, I have seen and known individuals who have tried to get help with government resources to no end and just get the perverbial 'red tape'. If someone with clout and money needed assistance, they would know exactly where and how to get it because they would naturally be introduced to that environment whereas someone living below poverty level most likely would not.

Answer 8

The government is in power to support the rich. They're the only ones who can afford to pay the candidates, and naturally, the pols are going to do everything they can for their sponsors. If the amount of money people and corporations were allowed to donate to campaigns were limited, you might have a fairer system. As it stands, you've got all the democracy money can buy.

Answer 9

Bush has been giving more breaks to the rich, his rich friends, more than to the poor. Where do you think the money then comes from?? Somebody has to pick up the slack. It wil be the lowest class & up to middle class who will & have been suffering the most. Read "BUSHIT" by Hubler I believe, in the political section of any bigger book store. It is facinating. Even if you disagree with the explanations he gives as to why, what Bush has done is proveable & down there in black & white.

Answer 10

The government also allows the poor to pay the majority of the taxes. The government is at fault for this due to the economy.