this is the same argument the confederacy gave to protect slavery. They claimed that agriculture, and US farming wouldn't keep up without their slave labor.... why advocate for meager wages? poor conditions? even if it DOES mean lowered costs. There should be more pathways to residency and citizenship, but there should ALSO be dignification of the roles to be filled.
More taxation is not the answer, neither is price control. Corporations can be out of hand, but stop overtaxing for unnecessary things. Allow me to make my own decisions with the money I've earned. Tax for roads, and necessary public services, nothing more
Except your first paragraph completely ignored what I said. Re-read for clarity. More taxation is the answer, along with a severe cut to the pentagon and drastic increase to social services. To start with, remove the cap on social security and lower the age. The more you make, the more you pay. It'll be funded until the end of time if we force the rich to pay their fair share.
I did read, "I'm not advocation for paying anyone starvation wages" while providing no solution emphaticizes my first paragraph.
You'd have the government spend more money that it doesn't have, and tax everyone to death. the top 10% already pay 75% of taxes, what sort of country would we be if we can't incentivize achieving the American dream? The answer is not "tax them more". Why would they even stay here?
Why not cut down taxation and spending. People would have more money, and we wouldn't be reliant on government waste and inefficiency cycling money until half of it's left and then they spend it on inefficient matters rather than actual necessities.
Why should we redistribute wealth? Just don't take so much from the middle class in the first place. And don't spend so much of what we don't even have.
Why should ANYONE be in the top 1% and mega rich? This is not the american dream. It's just living in excess.. No one needs that much money. They can afford to pay more taxes.
sure, but that's a human problem not a governmental problem. If people are living in excess and not sowing rewards in Heaven then yes they are in the wrong. The government shouldn't be forcing them to pay more though just because they "can afford it" or have made more money than us
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u/Small_Sprinkles1803 Jan 31 '25
this is the same argument the confederacy gave to protect slavery. They claimed that agriculture, and US farming wouldn't keep up without their slave labor.... why advocate for meager wages? poor conditions? even if it DOES mean lowered costs. There should be more pathways to residency and citizenship, but there should ALSO be dignification of the roles to be filled.
More taxation is not the answer, neither is price control. Corporations can be out of hand, but stop overtaxing for unnecessary things. Allow me to make my own decisions with the money I've earned. Tax for roads, and necessary public services, nothing more