Why we need a mandatory living wage:

[The Grand Nudger]

I defend the type of society where everyone can survive by themselves - Not by taxing other people -

We don't live in such a society, the rich cannot survive by themselves (none of us can, truth be told) - and they do tax the shit out of other people. Sure, lets get to that self sufficient society somehow, someday - but in the interim.........

It doesn't mean a little bit of welfare is bad, it isn't, but fixing all problems (in this case America's, I'm not American so I might be wrong) by simply taking more from the rich is a sign of econ illiteracy, only someone who likes utopias would defend that.

As has been said, no one's talking about taking money from the rich. We're talking about limiting how much money the rich can extract from society.....lol. Raising minimum wages. Taxing the trucking companies that -use- the highways at a greater rate than we tax John Q (we already do this, btw, but it's fractions of a penny overall) for maintenance on the infrastructure they require to operate. Charging companies, in an extreme example, the full price of their operations. Costs involved in site cleanup, the full range of work load on water purification - again, infrastructure costs. That's a negotiating chip we use to entice business.

Right now, the absurd distribution of wealth is only an indicator that a particular segment of our populace is paying next to nothing on the full costs of their investments. We are subsidizing -their- lifestyle with welfare on the grandest possible scale. The poor are minority recipients of a marginal fund bundled within the larger actionable bills.