Your missing the point though. People shouldn\'t be punished for making more money. You buy what you can afford, capitalism at its heart. This is why I\'ve been against social programs from the beginning.
Welfare, for example, provides no incentive to get off the couch and get a job. They have money coming anyway, why do they need a job? Welfare is by far the most abused social program in America and it needs to stop.
I can\'t stand American citizens who depend on the government to take care of them. If you were born with a disability that\'s one thing. If you were a crack addicted woman who now cares for eight children with five different fathers, you\'ve made poor choices in your life.
Why does the lower class deserve more money? What did they do to deserve it? Did they go to school? Earn a degree? Get a job? Try those things first.
Yes I know I sound like an ass, but its the truth.
I agree about what you say regarding welfare systems and I will add that it is abused in almost every country. It is something I disagree upon as well and for years this matter has been troubling me. But the welfare system is irrelevant I think to what I ve tried to point out. I am not proposing a system of income allocation such as a welfare system.
My reference to lower classes is just a reference point, to express the perceived value lost as the income becomes less. For example for you as a person who belongs in the middle class (assumption), the perceived value you lose through taxes is higher than for the very few that own more than half of the country\'s national income. The same amount per dollar lost has less value as wealth increases. In other words you are punished extra for making less. You are still imprisoned in the economic system as a middle class man (or low class). Only this time indirectly.
For example in many European countries were national sales taxes are common, increases in VAT on necessity goods like milk and bread, cause uproars and complains from everyone except from the top classes even though the latter may consume more thus pay more in indirect taxes.
Also the general market is similar to the stock market. Not everyone can make abnormal returns. Even if we assume that every single individual tries his/her best, some are bound to fail, some will do fine, and some are bound to make abnormal returns due to unpredictable factors and/or inefficiencies of the market which is sometimes caused by some deliberately to allocate wealth from you to their own pockets. Not everyone in the upper class has earned his/her wealth purely on skill and extreme efforts. The public sector and the free market fail in similar ways for similar reasons. They are both abused and are enclosed in the same system.
