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Originally Posted by Fr8monkey
The Republican plan is easy... Return to the failed policies of the Great God Reagan: Give all the money to the rich and let it trickle down to the dregs that make less than a million a year.
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Let's take one example. Bill Gates employs 93,000 people. They are all payed out of the company's obscene profits. You see, for all your claims, trickle-down does indeed work.
The United States Government employs nearly three million people. They are all payed by tax revenues, since the Government generates no revenues and makes no profits. Utah's senior Senator, Orrin Hatch, has a staff of 64 people who are paid a total of about $2 million dollars per year. If we take that as average, then two hundred million dollars are spent every year just paying the staff for the Senators. When John Adams moved the Federal Government to Washington D.C. in 1800 there were 125 Federal employees listed.
It's easy to swing this thread back to the one-sided hate-the-rich theme. What bothers me is that most people who jump on that bandwagon think that taking away the money from "The Rich" will solve the problem, and tend to believe the Government is the Good Guy who can save us all. As I said earlier, the problem isn't with the rich, it's with the Government, and you need to clean that up first.
As the song says: "Tax the rich, feed the poor 'til there are no rich no more." Once you've accomplished that, Fr8monkey, what will your next step be?