What if I prefer to pay my fair share to my government to help keep our country safe and lend a hand to those who need it but feel like I pay a disproportinate share?
I consider it a privledge to pay my share but I am tired of paying other peoples share too.
MikeyRavioli wrote:
I would say that is a legitimate concern and one that I think everyone in the middle to upper middle class feel, including me. For example my house. It's a normal house, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, garage nothing fancy and 40 years old. Property taxes are @ 6,500. We don't have garbage pick up either, we use a private company.
There is much fraud and waste on that we can all agree. But the answer is not to dismantle our government and ignore the poorest, sickest and neediest amongst us at the expense of corporate interests and the wealthy feeling as if they are being 'punished'. We live in a supposedly civilized society where we all are supposed to have equal rights and an opportunity to succeed and now the rules have been written in favor of the powerful putting the rest of us at a disadvantage.
The answer isn't to give the 'job creators' even more breaks since that obviously hasn't worked over the last 30 years. It's time to try a new approach that focuses on the needs of the people. We have the resources, we have the power, we just don't have the will, or at least those who make the rules don't have the will. The powerful will never and have never given it up willingly. The people have always had to force them to give it up and it usually needs violence if history is any indication.
You have mentioned the OWS movement needs a leader. Those opposed to the movement love to say that because it would be much easier to focus on that one person, find flaws and just pick at that flaws over and over to dismiss the entire movement. People did that and continue to do that with MLK even. "Adulterer" "plagiarizer" anything to take the focus away from a righteous cause. To not put a leader forward is a brilliant move.
