The Rich are suffering in America, what should we do?

Question

Bush's tax cuts helped out a little bit, but still the suffer. As a result, our economy is starting to lag. Are there any charities I can donate money to that will help America's oil companies get back up on their feet?

Answer 1

You are so right. There's even an Onion video that discusses the widening gap between the rich and the super rich. Some solutions are explored. One that I remember is that they have to get out of their gated communities and do some off shoring.

Rest assured, you are donating at the pump several times a week, and part of your tax dollar goes to corporate welfare, so that should be enough. The rich need to start pulling themselves up by their own socks.

This is really a funny video.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_americas_rich

Answer 2

In the US, wages rose steadily until the 1970's when real wages started to stagnate. As it did, American households turned majorly toward credit, borrowing unprecedented amounts of money. The late 70's also corresponds to a major political shift: the slow demise of interventionnist policies to the profit of high-end tax cuts, deregulated markets and various measures of austerity. In Europe, Thatcher was elected in 1979 and, in the US, Reagan won the 1980 election... Since the 1970's, the American GDP increased immensely, but that increase was coupled with growing inequalities. Now, Americans work harder and for longer than they ever did before, but most of them do not benefit of the productive growth that occurs nearly every year. Growth benefits a handful of very rich people, all at the expenses of the rest -- and that begun with the right-wing shift of the late 1970's and early 1980's. Trickle down economics is, basically, a good narrative to justify reverse robinhoodism: taking from the poor, among taxes, exempting the rich from such taxes, and using the money to give contract or subsidize big corporations. That, my friend, is what a conservative America looks like.

Answer 3

What we rich want is a system of welfare and high taxes on the middle class that will prevent them ever joining the ranks of us super-rich.
And thank god both political parties are promising to keep things that way!
Of course, government mismanagement and a housing crisis from time to time also helps.
Thanks for being sympathetic, few people are these days (apart from lobbyists we control)

Answer 4

LOL! For as little as the price of a cup of coffee a day, you can help an oil executive renew his country club membership...

Answer 5

Kick the rich while they are down!
Finish them off if we get the chance!
They have been doing the same to the poor and middle class for decades!!!

Answer 6

Lets just give them Amnesty from paying taxes then they won't have to hire all those lawyers to find loopholes.

Answer 7

its the risk they take . srew em take care of the have nots that work for them . let the rich jump out of windows if they are too weak to be poor they dont deserve to be rich.

Answer 8

Why dont you contribute to the "Lets get Robert a brain " fund

Answer 9

wait til hilery gets elekted an she steels all the oil companys profits.

Answer 10

Your dumb, stuck on stupid. Save your money for a brain transplant.