| Those are both worthwhile observations. Here we hear about affordable health care but what about affordable taxes? They can do a switch and bate scam. Offer tax rebates and then raise the cost of permits and fines, which we end up paying for even if relative to the price of food.
As they tax the rich the rich can simply raise the cost to us for products and services to make up the difference, or downsize jobs, so who is still paying?
Bottom line, the cost of living must be comfortable for the average family income. Even if we work at the minumum wage we should be able to make ends meet with a little extra to tuck away or to enjoy on a luxury. Forcing workers to have to sacrafice something from their normal budget is not reflective of a sound economy.
The weaker the middle class becomes their economical status and security the more need you generate for social programs to help bail out those family budgets form crumbling under the weight of profit motivated businesses, plus taxes.
The more social programs you have the more that will endanger of status of the wealthy members of the economy, effecting distruction form the bottom up.
Daniel discribed this for the king of Babylon. If you use weak clay as the foundation then the golden head will come tumbling down from the top. That is why the founding fathers built our economy on gold as the standard for it's foundation. Basing the foundation on the hope that the work force will pay more taxes in the future is like using wet clay. It looks good on paper but paper is not gold.
Currently the rich who have companies are the foundation that must be built upon so they create more jobs and raise the wages of middle class citizens and low income people. It is no longer about building up form a lower foundation, but about pulling up the lower sections from the top, boot strapping. (pulling self up by your own boot straps). The wealthy must take a responsible role in up-lifting the economy, via free will or taxation. But that is not what appears to be happening, jobs are outsouced, they want to import workers who do not mind lower wages, the replace humans with mahines and computers, they downsize operations so one person is doing three jobs. Resulting in distruction form the top down. Meanwhile the same companes up te cost of everything from gas, food, health care, credit card charges, and fines for traffic tickets ( just to mention the tip of the iceburg).
The average citizen cannot consume if they are not likewise fed. Simple.
Right now we must rebuild the number of jobs needed which can pay decent wages to both the educated and uneducated sectors of society. We must build it here again and make quality products. Stop buying from companies the make their products overseas. To heck with fair trade with other countries and concentrate on creating new jobs here. Of course we would still buy coffee and things we cannot grow here. But it is paramount that our people are doing productive things and being allowed to share the perks of such production.
And I am not talking about bringing back companies by distroying the unions so we must work for cheap wages in unsafe conditions. (like McCain might suggest).
Now private voters might be more concerned about self-interest. But a govenment must deal with the collective interest of America as a whole. Sometimes those two factors are at odds with each other relative to speical interests.
People gripe about pork projects, but pork translates to jobs, and the pig getting fatter is the average worker in a state that gets the most pork. Pork managment is also of primary concern because it can recycle gerneal tax funds back into the pocket books of the anverage tax payer who needs a job, which income generates more taxes later on to pay for the loan. (which loan is the pork offered to generate more work projects).
Later I will edit this post. |