quoted 3 lines I wasn't trying to obfuscate anything - I was just trying to get across>I wasn't trying to obfuscate anything - I was just trying to get across
>the general idea that society runs on laws, and people can change the
>laws. I followed that by giving one example: the idea of wealth caps.
The problem with wealth caps is that americans are notorious for thinking
they are much richer than they are. People who make 80k a year will vote
and petition as if they were the super-upper class, when the majority of
"super-upper class" reform doesn't affect them. People will spend money as
if they made an extra 20k a year, putting themselves in debt, yet vote and
think they are actually making that extra money.
When the people who benefit not at all support tax reform that screws them
over, thinking that they're affected by a tax cut that only affects people
who can live entirely on investment dividends without ever working again,
we gots problems :)
derek
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