Sunday, January 15, 2012

What WE Should Do

There are people in this world who believe in economic equality. Just to warn you. These weird people actually seem to believe that the world would be a better place if everyone were economically  equal. Same bank account, same size house, same everything, apparently. But how practical is that?This belief is very unpopular in the United States, where it is often described in extremely negative terms. Americans are hammered with the idea that forced economic equality eliminates economic freedom. Certainly this is true, to a point. But elsewhere in the world, economic equality are not dismissed with such scorn as in the U.S. In Europe, for instance, where socialism is far more popular.

Maybe a compromise is in order. A comprimise between rigidly enforced equality, and the staggering inequality we have now, all over the world. Worldwide, it really is the 99% versus the 1%, and merely stating this fact is not raising the politics of envy or using divisive rhetoric. It is telling the truth.

Even suggest that the U.S. tax code should be a bit more progressive - that the wealthy should pay a bit more, and the conservatives raise the banner of "class warfare". The class warfare already exists, by virtue of the grotesque inequality in living standard worldwide. Merely mentioning it does not create it.

Free market capitalism generates enormous welath, but it tends to distribute that wealth extremely unequally. Conservatives seem to think that the solution is more free market capitalism. But deep down, they know this is false. That'w why front runner Mitt Romney is being attacked by the other republicans for being a corporate raider. they know that waalth is power, that nobody should have too much of either, than that when people do have too much of either, they usually abuse it.

We all know, deep down, that we should share equally.

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