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Pence mocked for saying ‘I don’t really buy the rich need to pay their fair share’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Yeah. With great power comes great responsibility.
If you can afford to jet off anywhere, get great healthcare without worry, afford a house that fits more than you need (or have multiple houses) while the rest of your society can’t make ends meet even with 2-3 jobs, well, you aren’t paying enough.
I get you should be able to keep what you earn. We all want that, but some of us hoard so much more than we need and don’t give a shit if others starve.
And let's all remember, the money they "earned" was off the value of workers. It's literally the root of capitalism vs socialism. Many just think socialism is just give people what they need for free. In reality, it's workers essentially owning the company so they get all the value of their work. Investors getting money for basically putting numbers in a different column in a spreadsheet is not them honestly earning their keep. The wealthy exploit labor.
This.
Money and wealth accrued because you own some property that some other people toil in or on is not "earned". It's taken from those who earned it.
i used to love watching "Shark Tank". it's pretty gross.
"Keep what you earn" is a bullshit concept in the first place. If it was a valid ideology at all, then I should be getting paid 100% of the value that I generate for the company I work for. That's what I earned. But nobody's making that argument because it's plainly farcical. So too is the idea that we should "keep what we earn" when it comes to taxes.