Gun Control: Say What you Mean.

[Brian37]

Riiiiiight.. I live in a country with some of the highest taxes (actually, they increased the VAT this year) in the world and I don't mind that poorer people 'leech' off of my paycheck. I'm poor, but I live a good life and there's always someone who needs help more than me. Are you really so selfish that you just want to live well and can feel content with yourself when others around you suffer?

No, I want to live in a world where people don't steal my money. You kind of flipped the switch there, I'd rather not see poor people or those suffering, I am doing infinitely more to help poor people by increasing employment and product development. I would hire more people if the government got out of my way.

Stop lying. YOU are absolutely fine funding the tax breaks fore corporate welfare WE pay for. So it isn't a matter of government getting out of the way. It is a matter of "when I get what I want, it is right. But if others get what they want, then it is wrong".

Tell me how 7.25 an hour is helping anyone and creating more and more low paying jobs helping anyone? Tell me how our exploding pay gap over the past 30 years is helping?

Now since you say you are a "capitalist"(which is not a form of government, but that is a different thread. But since you say you are for the "free market" would the word of a billionaire sink in? Like Warren Buffet or Nick Hanour.

Buffet thinks the rich at his level are full of shit about the tax rate, and he says he doesn't need the breaks he gets. AND BILLIONAIRE Nick Hanour says the "job creators" are because of demand. Any business owner will tell you that they WILL NOT hire one more person until DEMAND forces them to. Since the middle class and working poor are the bulk of that demand, WE, not the uber rich, are the job creators.

Now, when you look at what created the middle class in the first place, go look at the tax rate during WW2 and the 40 years after until Regan. That high tax rate and investment built our highways and electric grids.