And in other news, rich keep getting richer. Middle Class stays the same.

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

The rich are supposed to keep getting richer. I don't like how that somehow seen as a problem. The middle and lower class issues are problems.

Pirate700

:roll: Yeah you know there is absolutely NO relation between the classes and the problems of the lower classes are completely exclusive.. Right...

[QUOTE="With-Hatred"]

Studies have shown that the bigger the income gap between the rich and the rest, the lower the rates of happiness for a country....

surrealnumber5

Taxes aren't involuntary. We delegated the power to tax in the Constitution and have not since revoked it, hence we are consenting to the ability of Congress to levy taxes.

If you don't like taxes, either try to amend the Constitution or elect new representatives.

As long as people believe that they're one of the few in the hundreds of millions of people who can one day reach the upper class, this gap will likely continue to increase.

Actually, the rich are getting richer and the middle class is slowly becoming non-existent, while the poor are becoming poorer.

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[QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

The rich should be used to cure the deficit. Obama should come up with a new tax bracket that requires people who make over $200,000.00 per year to be hit with a 75% non-refundable tax.

BluRayHiDef

We need that money. Also, we should stop the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, immediately. Welfare should also be cut, and the people who have been on welfare should be placed into specially assigned neighborhoods, where there are no tax-supported public services like police-enforcement or firemen-services. These people should be forced to take government assigned public-service jobs themselves, and hit with a 75% tax rate which would go toward paying back the money they used when they were on welfare, and toward the deficit. Prisons should be shut down, since they're a waste of money. All of the prisoners should just be gassed and done with. Neighborhoods which are in school districts which have low acadmic averages should stop receiving tax-money for their public shools. We need that money, too.

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Social Security should be done away with too. You didn't save enough money to support your retirement? That's too bad, keep working until you drop.

As long as people believe that they're one of the few in the hundreds of millions of people who can one day reach the upper class, this gap will likely continue to increase.

one_plum

[QUOTE="one_plum"]

As long as people believe that they're one of the few in the hundreds of millions of people who can one day reach the upper class, this gap will likely continue to increase.

Tylendal