I completely agree with your statement about the rich always being rich. The problem is not that we have wealthy people, it's that the wealthy are overly wealthy to the point it's hard to fathom. It is astronomical. We have a system of tax loop holes for the rich that grant them the ability to be taxed far less than the middle class on a percentage basis. You should be angry about this. Like Warren Buffet himself is saying - why should he pay less in taxes than his office staff workers? Or why should I pay 30% tax on my labor, my hard- earned income...while a billionaire pays half or 1/3 that amount on his investment non-labor income? It's not like you have to lay bricks or be a servant of any kind to make investment income. Wealth
inequality is wrecking the middle class because the wealthy aren't pumping their massive incomes back into the economy like we the middle class do. Think about it, you may live paycheck-to-paycheck like many middle-class families do. Your wealth goes right back into the economy and keeps it churning along. The uber-wealthy are unable to spend what they make in the local economy. Much of their wealth gets "invested" or put in off-shore tax havens. The Walton family owns Walmart. Why are they the largest recipient of government welfare? (Say what?!) Because they wouldn't be so filthy stinking rich if they paid their employees a living wage. A huge # of Walmart employees are on welfare and need government assistance. Yet...the owners of the company that employs them are wealthier than the bottom 40% of the entire U.S. population (!) The Waltons and every multi-billionaire in this country can pay their FAIR share of taxes and still be very rich. Wealth disparity is wrecking the U.S. economy because our economy runs on the middle class. It's not acceptable to me, to see homeless military veterans, bankrupted by health care expenses begging on the street corners while we grant huge tax loopholes to the wealthy and their corporations that often pay zero tax on millions/billions earned. There is PLENTY of wealth in this country to go around and no logical reason we can't grant our citizens health care, at the very least. The corporatists and their elected Republican lackeys want us all to believe socialism is "evil" or that it's "communism" or that everyone wants to get "free" stuff. Socialism is all around us from the roads you drive on, the schools your kids are educated at, the Medicare insurance your parents are on, the police and fire departments that protect us and on, and on. If you earn less than $250,000 a year, your taxes are not going up under Bernie's socialism plan. Economists have verified this. We don't have to tax the middle class -more- to achieve what the citizens of Canada and Europe enjoy. The money is there. We just need to tax the wealthy at least as much as we tax the middle class. I know this is a move/film forum but I also highly recommend this book if this topic interests you.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-Hi...TF8&qid=1458405961&sr=8-1&keywords=Dark+Money P.S. While am at it...I'm NOT for Hillary. I don't believe a politician represents me or we-the-people when they accept $15 million dollars in bribes masquerading as speaking fees from corporations. She will not represent our best interests. She will not apply fair taxation and she will not put a single corrupt banker in jail. It hasn't happened yet. All we'll get with Hillary is Obama 2.0.
However- it is highly educational and eye-opening to watch, whichever side of the political spectrum you happen to be on. The password is bernie2016. Economist Robert Reich endorses Bernie and has made this film temporarily free to watch. It was filmed in 2013 and makes no mention of the current election for that reason but I feel the information is critical for everyone to know.
