Do you believe that when someone works hard to make the money that they do, they should be required to pay extra taxes to give to those that didn't do the things to make a good living?
I don't go along with all this spread the wealth horse menure. I work hard...I study hard...why should I have to "spread the wealth" with those that are too lazy to do the same?
No I don't think so. I worked for everything that I have. If I can do it, anyone can.
2007-01-30 01:16:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
only when rich politicians start dividing up their money and giving it to the rest of us.
I feel the same way you do. I work and have worked hard all my life. lazy people need to get off their butts and get jobs.
persons who are disabled, however, should be given some help. I don't mind paying taxes for that. But those who pretend to be disabled are annoying to me.
if you and I decide we don't want to work anymore, who will take care of us?
2007-01-30 01:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by lifeisagift 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They did an experiment where a control group was given a large sum of money. They let them do what ever they wanted with it.
In a year 10% had invested it or started a business and tripled the money, 80% had put it in something safe like money market or savings account and the other 10% had spent it and had nothing to show at the end of the year.
Spreading the wealth would do nothing it would all be the same in a year anyways.
There is an old Bible passage 'those that will not work will not eat'...granted that was for the healthy able bodied men the community still helped out the widowed and the orphan.
2007-01-30 09:28:07 · answer #2 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The premise is that some people are born with more intelligence and more ability to get more than their share of resources from this planet. Everyone has a right to their share of resources.
I agree that people that can but won't, out of laziness or a sense of entitlement, should not get anything from speading of the wealth.
What spreading of the wealth really means is that jobs are paid a good wage and all of the money does not always flow to the top but instead is distributed throughout the system.
2007-01-30 09:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by Lou 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A fair measure of a society's greatness is how well it treats its most unfortunate citizens. Our society is a failure due to adamance, avarice and ignorance. If any of those who have more than 'enough' were forced to live for a year without 'adequate', even if they worked hard for their station, they would change their tune.We can do much better for our poor and working class without being a socialistic state but those who are ridiculously rich may need to give up their third homes, yachts or Asian trips. I don't feel that anyone who 'works' for a living falls into this 'rich' category. I am addressing the overpaid athletes, older professionals whose investment earnings exceed their working income, old money holders, CEOs who get $200 million for running down a good business and anyone who is just plain 'fat'. They know who they are and they are mostly the greediest people ever born. They take advantage of tax breaks that aren't even available to anyone making less than say $200,000, much less 30-40,000.
2007-01-30 09:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Nightstalker1967 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's another approach that some conservatives and liberals here in Canada are promoting: a guaranteed income that gives everyone enough to get by on, to buy decent food instead of just french fries, and to have a roof over your head (we already have free health care which produces better results at a lower cost than privatized systems). Who ever works hard and makes more for themselves gets to keep it, but everyone starts with the same baseline of security.
This would eliminate welfare cheating because there's no income test: everybody gets the same benefit, just like everyone can send their kids to public school.
2007-01-30 10:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spread the wealth, only by choice. Someone should not be punished for working longer hours.
Someone who decides to work 70 hours a week at the same job where someone works 35, could have to pay a higher tax percentage. I think that is disgusting.
2007-01-30 09:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
I think that people who make 6 figure salaries and over should have to pay more taxes than those who only make 5 figures, but at the same time I think welfare should be abolished and US senators should have their pay frozen for the next 20 years.
2007-01-30 09:25:45 · answer #7 · answered by Double 709 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I am totally for private choice in spreading the wealth. I will probably give away every dime I ever make.
However, I am totally against the idea of government telling me that I have to do it. That is called Socialism.
2007-01-30 09:20:19 · answer #8 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Work hard for my future and my family is not a crime and certainly not a greed.
Democrats believing "Equally Poor" Democrats believe that if I am poor then everybody should be equally poor just like me.
Republicans believing "Equally Rich." Republicans always beleive that if you work hard, you have a chance to be like Bill Gates.
2007-01-30 09:30:05 · answer #9 · answered by Quickie 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I did the right things... Went to school, got a career, work 40 hrs a week, and what do I get in the end? I get the gov't saying, "By the way, we didn't take enough out of your checks and you still owe us another $1400." God bless America.
2007-01-30 09:21:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋