it can be considered a bad thing because people who have worked so hard to become rich lose some money. by distributing money and giving money to a guy who's been too lazy to work (or for other reasons) will just make him a bit more lazy. In other words, it lessens motivation and incentives to work hard and grow in the economy since the gov't will be paying the poor anyway. hope this helped a bit...
This is the attitude that republicans use to try and convince you that the rich ALWAYS deserve to be rich and the poor always deserve to be poor.
But its a lie-
the middle class and poor work HARDER than the rich. Far harder. They simply did not have the advantages the rich were born with.
The truth is the ultra rich MOSTLY got that way thru inheritance- family connections and unscrupulous business practices.
GW has never worked hard in his life- His Daddy got him into Yale- not his grades, his Daddy got Bin Laden money invested in his oil businesses- which failed, according to one Arbusto executive- thru GW's seldom being on the job.
Sure, there are middle classers who have worked their way up... thru hard work... and paid heavy taxes the whole way... but WHY should hard work mean you get out of paying taxes?
Look, NO ONE made themselves rich-
They took advantage of a society that is managed to make it possible for them to attain and achieve. Their customers paid them the money they pocketed, they used the power lines, water supplies, roadways, internet, and media we ALL paid for...
And thru diligence, and a LOT of luck, they managed to parley THIS society into personal wealth...
Congratulations. Because you GOT more out of this society you can AFFORD to support it more.
Sorry- but the logic that poor people DESERVE their fate and rich people Deserve their's is elitist.
You want to keep making money? That depends entirely on the REST of society being able to spend money.
The rich benefit MORE and business booms when the rich pay more in taxes.
Ad "redistribution"
ALL the government
does is to take tax money and re-distribute it.
The Republicans use the term "re-distribution of
wealth" to imply that the government is making the average taxpayer LESS wealthy thru giving money to social programs.
This is a bald faced lie- but it seems effective...
Just as Americans were swayed by calling it the "death tax" to do away with inheritance taxes- a bill that only benefits the rich- and which tends to further concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
(The Inheritance tax was implemented to try and PREVENT a few families from gaining 90% of all wealth thru the normal actions of capitalism...
It brought an end to the Robber Baron period.)
Americans often back an IDEA they like the sound of, without understanding that it actualy is BAD for their own personal objectives.
They like the OSUND of people who work hard keeping their money- because they know THEY work hard.... but the miss the fact that THEY are not the ones who benefit... only those in the leisure class benefit. The ones who don't HAVE to work hard.
They similarly miss that those complaining of redistribution of wealth are ACTUALLY backihng the CONCENTRATION of wealth.
They want the wealth of the middle class re-distributed to CORPORATE contracts, rather than to social programs such as scholarships, infrastructure, education, healthcare... programs that would ACTUALLY give taxpayer money BACK to the taxpayer in the form of services.
The rich want to pay vastly less than their share of taxes... and they want the vast majority of YOUR taxes to go into THEIR corporate pockets thru defense contracts, bailouts, and the privatization of public services.
And, being rich, they can pay for the Propaganda and bribes that get them what they want.
What we see today is the result of Honest American workers being talked into an agenda that only benefits the wealthy.
The Government, not being in it for the money, needs to re-distribute tax wealth in hte manner that will benefit the MOST people, not the least.
Corporations need to get a lot of it- because they employ people... but they can not get it all.
Social services are Necessary and that which is fundamentally necessary should NOT be profited upon.
For 42 cents the government will take your letter from your house and deliver it to another house on the other side of the nation.
There is no way a private company could do this for this price. If the Postal system was privatized- you would pay more to send a letter further.
And you have to pay enough for stock speculators to be able to pocket some of the money for doing nothing at all.
Be wary-
Recent events shopw clearly the scope of the lie you are being told... the "free market" guys want the market to be free for them to manipulate...
And they are HAPPY as clams to Re-distribute their debt onto YOUR shoulders, while the con you into letting them redistribute YOUR taxes into their pockets.