A modern
state requires a lot of tax dollars to pay for making it work; keeping the flow
moving together. Public spending is like the lubricant in an automobile engine.
Without engine lub the independent parts would grind away with much friction.
Public
spending in the wrong place creates inefficiency in the economic and social
engine of a nation. Too much lube and too few engine parts doesn't work for
progress. Cutting taxes to ridiculously low levels with a 20 trillion dollar
public debt with a belief that reductions in 'welfare state' entitlements can
be exploited top create a balanced budget and eliminate the public debt is
silly.
Wealth in
America is progressively concentrated with Republican and Democrat Party
policies from leaders reinforcing the trend. Media sycophants and manic
political leaders seem to want to keep mob hysteria and polity divisiveness
gpoing over non-economic issues.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hillary-trump-foes-keep-resistance-persistence-n725436
Democracy is about the well being of the
majority and politicians shouldn't be ashamed to pursue rational policies in
behalf of the majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States
The richest
1% are said to have more wealth than 90% of Americans put together. The poorest
73% have most of the debt. Washington politics primarily benefit the ultra-rich
and globalism. It has been said that 50%
of the people of the United States share just 1/2 of 1% of the national income.
Democrat
politics under the Obama administration slopped the poor and anyone they could
retire or put out of the work force without adding to unemployment stats. Even
so they focused on enriching politicians and the richest signing off on Bush II
tax cuts with enthusiasm. Republicans simply like to berate the poor and starve
them with a misbelief that good jobs are easy to be had with effort. Those that
are comfortable and well to do cannot imagine that real effort can pay off with
virtually nothing in the U.S.A. There is no objectively even field for work and
individual progress over the course of a lifetime any more.
F.D.R. got a
90% tax rate on the rich and only very slowly did that decrease over several
decades. He did create something of a welfare ethos since the private sector
put millions on the bread line with the depression.
With a 60%
tax rate on the 1% government could reallocate capital to ecological economic
policy actualization through private enterprise rather than just welfare
payments. Government could set paradigms for business bidders to fulfil that
would be financed upon winning competition. Today though the Trump administration
should create incentives for business to higher those out of work the most
time, first. Real nationalism means taking up policy that benefit the majority
of the people rather than the ultra-rich that tend to have globally allocated
portfolios at any rate.
The people of
the United States should try to keep some sort of reality in their thinking
about what concentrated wealth and power means. The nation's founders revolted
against concentrated wealth and power of British aristocrats. Several
revolutions that shaped the modern world were against concentrations of wealth
and power that reduced ordinary people to the status of peons or slaves.
Some have
said that if one is happy living in a political manure pile one shouldn't stick
one's neck out. The media tend to pacify the public when they are stimulating
panic or hate, yet it is intelligent analysis that too often or generally is
lacking. One needs to be circumspective too about current events in regard to
history. Perhaps no one in the U.S.A. should have more wealth than 300x that of
the average. Maybe corporations should be limited in size to 5000 employees.
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