10-02-2017, 07:02 PM
(10-02-2017, 06:43 PM)Benton Wrote: Go full-on socialist, tax me 90%, but make sure I've got a 4,000 square foot house, healthcare, food, 16 weeks paid vacation and I can retire at 40.
Ha! That's the fantasy, and it's never going to happen....at least not until the fusion reactors kick in to keep the labor bots charged up.
Most people just don't get the economics, and I think it's intentionally obfuscated. But I think the number I remember seeing is the 1% make something like $1.5T a year....which is only about 30% of the federal budget.
The NET WORTH of the 1% in the US - and people in that 2%-5% range are well off, but nobody is really calling them "rich" - around $11T....2-2.5 yrs of federal spending, or about 60% of ONE year's GDP.
Or $33k for every US citizen, which is hardly chump change but is far from life changing (especially as a 1-time sum). Or about $700 more each year of your roughly 45-yr working career. Just to point that out since so many think it's the evil greedy rich 1%ers keeping them from making good money.
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