Memo to Mayor DeBlasio (cc: President Obama):
Yes, we do have a lot of “income inequality”, as you noted in your speech. We are also a society with one of the highest standards of living and among the greatest economic mobility. That’s because we were decades late boarding your “progressive” train. Instead, we’ve always been a society in which people are freer to create and innovate — and thus improve the lives of others, as well as their own — than they have been in other societies. We are a society whose poor people, on average, have more living space than the average middle-class European — along with big TVs, Internet connections, cars, and other trappings of life.
In America, people are free to go as far as talent, skills, education, and effort will carry them. Your redistributionist schemes simply reduce, eventually to nothingness, the incentive to create, invent, and produce, to use that talent, skill, education, and effort to improve the lot of all of us.
When you take away that incentive, you take away the very thing that lifts the standard of living for the people. As a well-known member of your party once said, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Are we better off with a higher, but unequal, standard of living, or with an equal, but lower, standard of living (and I’m not just talking financially)?
I’d rather not have trickle-up poverty, thank you. But that’s where redistribution leads us.
Hurting the poor is how The Party of Compassion shows its compassion. They need people to “help.”
Remember what Jack Kemp said: “Liberals measure compassion by how many people they’re helping; we measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help.”
If they genuinely help people, there won’t be anyone to “help.”
Good. I want those actors and actresses who rake in millions to give up most of their money and send it to me. After all, it’s only fair! Why their income is way out of line with mine, and I’m smarter than them. Their pay is obscene. I want 90% of it. That way there’ll be income equality.
Also, those liberal elites who think that they are better than me. I want them to give up most of their salary until their income matches mine. That’s only a fair redistribution of income.
Minimum wage is a baseline in determining union wages. Minimum wage goes up.....UNION wages go up.
This has nothing to do with “equality” and everything to do with giving Democrat cronies a kickback.