Why do so many attack wealthy people?

Question

Take the tax cuts. I keep hearing how the tax cuts were just for the rich. Well from the information I have gathered it seems that the rich pay most of the taxes so it would make sense that a tax break benefit them. Poor people don’t pay any income taxes and most middle class people pay very little. So what is wrong? Why the constant attacks against successful people?

Answer 1

Why do so many wealthy attack people?

Answer 2

When wealth is disproportionate, it becomes a political power of its own. What we are complaining about is not that accountants can make, say $180 000 a year or more, or that economists also get six figure salaries. These people went to school for what they do and are contributing what they have to society. They pay more taxes because it's simply impossible to demand the same burden from lower income families whose incomes are a question of basic necessities and dignities.
What has gone wrong with the system is a small portion of people who make an amount of money that is simply out of all proportions with what they contribute to society. CEOs that cut jobs or export them out to foreign countries and then give themselves six figure bonuses to reward themselves for the savings are not helping the economy, or society. In fact, they're bleeding it dry.
Market laws also give athletes and movie stars salaries that are completely out of proportion with what they give back to society. I suppose there's no tremendous harm in that, but I really don't care if they're taxed up to 90 percent of what they make. Athletes used to be normal people not that long ago.
As for the ideal of free market, free markets have long ceased to be a reality. Why do corporations hire so many lobbyists if all they're concerned about are free markets?
So no, I don't see anything wrong with the super-wealthy being asked to make super contributions. They're the ones profiting from the system, not the other way around.

Answer 3

Are Ya slipping there BUD?? The middle-class has carried this country "FOREVER"........The poor pay very little taxes, for obvious reasons and the wealthy (most of them anyway) pay even less taxes than the poor. By the time they get through with their "tax shelters" and all the other "loop-holes" our politicians have voted in over the years. You've got "BRASS ONES"

Answer 4

Successful people I have no problems with. But how many of the uberwealthy obtained their money (1) off the backs and from the blood and sweat of the poor they exploited and/or (2) by being smart enough to be born into the right family? Do you think Dubya would be president right now if his daddy weren't George H.W. Bush?

If the rich do indeed pay most of the taxes, it 's because they have the most money. A CEO earning eight figures every year should pay considerably more than his employee who earns 1/400th his salary.

Answer 5

I remeber and STILL feel the effects of how much money is taken out of my paycheck by taxes when I worked for minimum wage. You have no idea how angry that makes me feel when being told that such money is being taken from me for my own benefit when it would benefit me to have it for more rent or grocery money.

I agree, it is jealousy. The problem is when we tax the so called rich, those who run big business tend to have enough money to pay for the best minds to find them loopholes for them to pay less taxes. SO who gets taxed? Owners of small business, the people who actually create jobs, thats who feels the squeeze.

Answer 6

I can't imagine. My personal belief is that Bill Gates should own everything, absolutely everything, and you should be Head Butler.

To accomplish this, we will have to assist Bill in defeating Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett will then be relegated to Gardener #1511. My sister, who knows more about plants than the Almghty, could be his boss.

Then we can rename ourselves The United Gates of America, and watch that horror, Vista, stumble across a landscape of computers that don't work.

Answer 7

There is a leftist mentality that the rich somehow "stole" it from the poor.

This is not necessarily untrue in some countries where a small group controls the nation's resources and wealth but the US has a great many opportunities and far less corruption than places like Mexico.

Answer 8

frankly because they deserve it... (and i'm not talking about rich people here i'm talking about wealthy people, if someone is rich there is someone who is wealthy who signs their check who almost certainly made their money from lovely things like sweatshop labor, slave labor, arms sales, etc.)

How can anyone with a conscience keep so much of the wealth on the planet, while so many are starving, homeless, and infirm?

If the wealthy actually care about people complaining about them, which i doubt, then i suppose they can go cry themselves to sleep on their solid gold pillows on a private jet flying over a private island.

Answer 9

There are "so many" because there are so many poor people. Which is also why so few rich people attack poor people, there are not many rich people. ,)

Answer 10

"For everyone to whom much is given, of him much is required." Luke 12:48