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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The US is based on equality of opportunity, not equality of results.
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Pithy. Too bad the "equality of opportunity" is something that's only true when you look at it through a specific pair of spectacles.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
What do you do about people who aren't even interested in trying? (I, perhaps, have a more experienced viewpoint that most posting here, having spend most of my formative years in a Barrio. I was constantly surrounded by kids my age who sole goal in life was to get a basic job, play softball, drink beer, and enjoy the opposite sex. School? Why, you didn't need it for a construction job. Years later, having done without for education, hard work for many years, and a modest level of affluence from the above, I'm supposed to share with those who didn't care?)
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Imagine how useful those kids might've been if y'all hadn't had such a hangup about specific types of indoctrination. Of course, i'm saying this tongue in cheek, but there does seem to be something wrong when you all accept that parents raise their kids this way.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Currently in the US, the top 10% of earners pay 70% of all income tax. This is not enough?
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Hard to say, as I can't pull comparative figures out of google, but the first thing that I notice when I look at the dutch national budget is that the total raked in through corporate taxation is about 50% of the amount received through income taxes (and socsec etc.),
wheras in the USA corporations account for less than 20% of the "income tax+socset etc" figure.
That might be an explanation.