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Originally posted by taxwonk
You're worrying about the rising cost of private schools, you wear $140 shirts, you're a DINK household, and you say you're not rich? Try running that past the cleaning crew in your office or the manger at your grocery store and see what they think.
The truth is that there is such a wide (and growing) gap between the haves and the have-nots in this country that there is hardly anything left of the middle class any more. The middle class used to be the cops and the office managers, and the average lawyers, who could afford a modest house and maybe two cars, one used, and possibly a two-week vacation every year. These people are almost all gone now. They haven't disappeared completely, but they are shrinking rapidly as a demographic.
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Did I say I was middle class? No. I'm upper middle class. But thats not rich. I'm a few hundred grand a year away from rich, and that chasm is a huge one to bridge...
Two week vacation? I don't know anyone, rich or poor, who can swing that gig anymore.
How do you cure wealth disparity long term? You can't do it. Its impossible. Wealth disparity is a natural consequence of capitalism. Capitalism is our system. Is it imperfect? Yes, but what's the option? Wealth redistribution? That's socialism. "Progressive taxation" is a soft way of saying "force the better off to give money to the less well off.” Taxes pay for the state - for infrastructure, for minimum benefits such as welfare.
Taxes are not the social reengineering tool which the Left seems to think they are
