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Originally Posted by daswig
Who knows...maybe they should have studied in school instead of spending their time smoking pot and reading "Teen Beat".
If you're stupid, no matter how much you make, you can indeed live below the poverty line. And the poverty line, BTW, is generally a statistical critter.
If you're born poor and WANT to get out of poverty, you can do it. It may not be fun, it may entail a lot of hard work, but it certainly can be done. Even in Ohio.
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The wealthiest one percent of the people in the United States, during the
thirty three year period between 1970 and 2003, increased the percentage of
the total wealth of this country that they own, from 13 percent to 33 percent.
This transfer of one fifth of the wealth FROM the rest of us, TO the wealthiest,
took place during a period of much higher state and federal inheritance taxes
than the wealthiest will face from now on.....and during a period when they
paid a much higher, progressive tax rate than they have paid recently.....
and will pay going forward. The wealthiest gained, versus the rest of us,
during a period of much higher worker union affiliation than the current level.
Your post is idealistic, impractical, uninformed, and describes a very unlikely
outcome for the vast majority of Americans, going forward, given current
tax policy and the velocity of the concentration of wealth. The wealthiest
few have never held more economic and political power than they do now,
and seldom in our country's history have they been less pressured to act
for the common good. Indeed, you, and many others discount their leverage
and advantage in maintaining current wealth redistribution trends. You help
to hasten the day when, in lieu of any hope of reversing current trends
via peaceful, political and union organizing and civil protest, violent revolution
against the ruling class will be viewed as an accepted, and inevitable remedy.