Gallup pushing the Marxist agenda.
This, in a nutshell, is why Obama won. He’s promising to take from the rich and hand it to the middle class. He’s promising to expand disability and food stamps until pretty much anyone who doesn’t want to work can live for free off the backs of the productive. 80 years of the Welfare State have given way too many Americans a mindset of “gimme gimme gimme and make the rich pay for it.” Not just the poor, but a lot of middle class people too. Its why we are in decline. People don’t want to work and produce. They want to live the good life off someone else’s dime.
Of course.
Society has deteriorated to the point of no return.
That’s good idiots. Kill the golden goose.
Not sure you need a poll to figure that one out. I would title it “Majority in U.S. think they should get more of other people’s money”. Just a guess but the large majority of that 52% is likely in the bottom 50% of income.
About the same percentage who pay no federal income tax.
de Tocqueville’s tipping point.
I also wish wealth was more evenly distributed.
I wish parents would raise their kids with a work ethic so that those who might otherwise grow up to be like today’s poorest 52% would put in the effort and contribute more to our country - and end up with more wealth because they produced more value. But if the least productive 52% wants to redistribute the productivity of the wealthiest 48%, that is not what democracy is about in a country with the rule of law and enumerated government powers.
It’s all temporary.
Whether these exact numbers are true or not (I think it is off), the fact is a great number of people think somehow wealth is magically distributed from some benevolent ruling force. America is woefully ignorant today, and we may have to hit rock bottom before enough people open their eyes enough to realize they are being lied to by the leftists in entertainment, media, education and government.
I just wanna axe these a$$holes one question..
Define distribution....
Note to Gallup: People in Hell want ice water, too.
Sounds like Gallup is oversampling the low information, stupid voter crowd or they were bought off.
Of course, raising taxes on the rich does nothing to redistribute the wealth.
First, because money collected by the government just goes to the government. Your paycheck doesn’t get bigger just because his, supposedly, gets smaller.
Second, if he’s rich, he’s in business. Raising his taxes just raises his cost of doing business which just raises the cost of his product. You pay the tax when you buy the gallon of milk at the supermarket, and you pay the tax when you buy gas at the pump.
When you raise taxes on the rich, they just become the government’s tax collector. Their customers pay the tax.
shut up get a job and earn it