“People should not be too rich to enjoy things in life others can’t.”
Some folks don’t seem to realize that almost the entire service class of “working families” depend on others too rich to do for themselves. Gardeners, nannies, waiters, hotel cleaners, amusement park workers, airline stewards, road tolltakers, taxi drivers, tourline operators, excursion boat captains, cruise ship workers, and millions of other jobs depend on people having disposable income above their basic needs.
Evidently a lesson not learned by the Dems during (iirc correctly) the Clinton Administration involved the Dems tacking on a steep tax for yachts. This had the effect of decimating the boat-building jobs so the Dems had to quietly repeal the luxury tax in order to save “working families” jobs. Reagan was right. The economy is trickle-down and anyone who thinks the economy tinkering isn’t as interrelated, if not more so, than ecology tinkering is living in a fantasyland (which no one will be able to visit if Dionne gets his way).
They also ignore the effect of seeing someone do well. Mentally-healthy folks in an open society have no problem seeing rich people enjoying the fruits of their own labor. Resentment and class warfare happens where people truly believe such a lifestyle is closed to themselves because of conditions outside their own initiative. Unfortunately, many blacks have already internalized this myth and our country is rapidly approaching the state where it is no longer a myth but true for everyone.
“People should not be too rich to enjoy things in life others can’t.”
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That doesn’t seem to make much sense, perhaps you meant that they shouldn’t be RICH ENOUGH to enjoy things that others can’t.