Where the lowest fifth spend the money is meaningless. What is meaningful is that that parasites are going to kill off the host someday.
"What is meaningful is that that parasites are going to kill off the host someday."
When, and we are very close now, the lowest 50% of income earners pay zero income taxes, we'll have turned the corner toward economic and political disaster.
That said, the blame really belongs to the politicians. The lower income classes have no more control over this travesty than do any of the rest of us.
Right you are. When the takers' take exceeds the givers' gifts, the whole set-up will implode. It will happen first...
...in Kalifornia.
How exactly will they kill us? We have all the wealth, all the brains, plus the police and the army.