Should we be concerned? Is this the latest and greatest threat from inside our country that needs to be addressed?
Points of interest NOT necessarily all proven true:
• 30% of the protesters feel violence is an acceptable method of achieving their goals.
• There seems to be a lot of incoherence between the protesters in their demands.
• Their demands to tend to focus on the large divide between the very rich and the remainder of the population.
• Almost 50% of the population pays no Federal withholding income tax
• Were ALL taxed thru the cost of products we buy as they are added to the price
• The top 5% of the wage earners (income earners) pay around 40% of all Federal income taxes.
• There is little doubt that the richest people and corporations have and continue to take advantage of the population in general to support their cash flow and power desires.
• Unions have been in decline for years. Although they have (did) help level the playing fields a bit they became as corrupt as big business in some cases.
• Businesses big and small generate the jobs but smaller businesses generate more of the new jobs in our current economy.
• Can big business and the rich be targeted without damage to smaller businesses and the economy as a whole?
• Will anything change without either legal or violent actions?
• What would we change if we could? Would it really make life in the United Stated any better?
• Would change require a total rewrite of our current constitutional form of government?
• Looking around the world is there any form of government anyplace to envy and copy?
I have been a proponent of doing away with the IRS and going to strictly a Federal sales tax. My idea would be that the tax would not be added to food, clothing, or the primary home (shelter) up to a “reasonable” price of course. Thus the poor would still pay no taxes and the rest would be taxed on their spending not their earnings. Spending would include money transferred out of the country.
This of course does not resolve most, if any, of the issues Ive brought up, AND the way I currently see it going we all better be prepared to defend what is important to us, or be willing to dig in and help make changes that work for us and the United States as a whole.
Points of interest NOT necessarily all proven true:
• 30% of the protesters feel violence is an acceptable method of achieving their goals.
• There seems to be a lot of incoherence between the protesters in their demands.
• Their demands to tend to focus on the large divide between the very rich and the remainder of the population.
• Almost 50% of the population pays no Federal withholding income tax
• Were ALL taxed thru the cost of products we buy as they are added to the price
• The top 5% of the wage earners (income earners) pay around 40% of all Federal income taxes.
• There is little doubt that the richest people and corporations have and continue to take advantage of the population in general to support their cash flow and power desires.
• Unions have been in decline for years. Although they have (did) help level the playing fields a bit they became as corrupt as big business in some cases.
• Businesses big and small generate the jobs but smaller businesses generate more of the new jobs in our current economy.
• Can big business and the rich be targeted without damage to smaller businesses and the economy as a whole?
• Will anything change without either legal or violent actions?
• What would we change if we could? Would it really make life in the United Stated any better?
• Would change require a total rewrite of our current constitutional form of government?
• Looking around the world is there any form of government anyplace to envy and copy?
I have been a proponent of doing away with the IRS and going to strictly a Federal sales tax. My idea would be that the tax would not be added to food, clothing, or the primary home (shelter) up to a “reasonable” price of course. Thus the poor would still pay no taxes and the rest would be taxed on their spending not their earnings. Spending would include money transferred out of the country.
This of course does not resolve most, if any, of the issues Ive brought up, AND the way I currently see it going we all better be prepared to defend what is important to us, or be willing to dig in and help make changes that work for us and the United States as a whole.