What is the deal with the current United States? Why are middle and lower class people in the U.S only getting poorer while the government and upper class people are only getting richer?
I have one answer to this. Taxes and greed. Americans are forced to pay taxes every year in order to help the government to pay off its national debt and pay for war, etc.
Here is my insight. One half of my already low paycheck gets deducted and sent to the government. I can get some of that back in a refund, but either way I still get nailed for the money that I could use to pay bills then and there. The greed aspect of this tyranny is government officials and big businesses that either don't get taxed or end up needing a bailout by the government. Why is it a big business can get a break, but us smaller, less known people are forced into bankruptcy. It does not make sense to me. What about the tax increases every year? Does the government realize that they are hurting the economy if they are taxing us to death? Ok, I will take that stimulus check you gave me and I will cash it. Then I will stick it in the safe for when I need it for a major emergency. Oh wait, you are going to tax me on the money you gave me too?
I have an idea that is so ludicrous that it would surely work. If everyone in the government was forced to pay the taxes us NON GOVERNMENT workers had to, they would cut the taxes by far. If that didnt work, everyone could draw all their money out of a bank and force every bank to go bankrupt. This would mean that the money each government worker had would be gone. Poof. Send everyone back to the stone age where we had to barter in order to get items. The time where 1 million dollars would last you until you died. Now, 1 million will last a normal person max of 2 years. They could draw interest from banks, but at 0.01% interest, that's only 10k interest you are getting. That might put a down payment on a new car. It surely wouldn't pay a house off. Tell you what, I will give you 1 cow for 20 bushels of wheat. How about 1 loaf of bread for your jelly?
Anyone get my point?
No taxation without representation. --Reverend Johnathan Mayhew
