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Welfare for the rich and the poor December 10, 2013 One difference though. If the truly needy do not get assistance, they starve (and some will say 'let them starve'). If the rich don't get tax breaks they don't starve. Some people who get public assistance need it and I don't resent that. Others don't and that's a problem that we continue to address; it's not simply that the system is inefficient but it can't anticipate all loopholes; so it will always be a problem looking for a solution; I accept that. The idea behind tax breaks is (said to be) to stimulate the economy and I think that that's valid but it should apply to all who work and not just the rich. Carte blanche tax breaks to the rich, as you said, are not good for the economy. The immense and growing disparity between the rich and the rest of us is bad for America's strength and its economy. One interesting thing about the Tea Party is that it is in part a (recent) grass roots thing (of course with certain limited constituents and with backing from big money). Therein its freedom from being entrenched and its power that is disproportionate to its numbers. Established politics wants to hang on to its power and so diminishes its power to serve the common good (this applies to 'good' conservatives and liberals). I'm guessing that politics moving back toward its roots would be good; a balance would be good to avoid disruption; but we can also have a balance between balance and disruption; or perhaps it’s not a balance but a moment to moment, year to year, decade to decade, century to century response to what's going on at the time. I hope you guys will forgive this lengthy rant that might well be more opinion than fact and reason. |