First, since it's an easy target, this guy is a college ‘teacher’. Universities with huge endowments (some over 30 billion dollars) are designated ‘tax free’, while paying administrators, deans, etc. salaries that are often into 7 figures. The communities in which they are located often have significant poverty, but the universities just don't pay taxes. So take the plank out of your own eye first would be a legitimate suggestion.
Second, it's not the ‘super rich’ who make our decisions for us as much as it is the super entitled and the super connected. This includes people like Nancy Pelosi, and Obama, and Harry Reid, and John McCain, and Boehner, and all of those who control what ‘news’ the rest of the populace hears - and what spin will be put on it, and those who decide what to teach at schools and universities - and what spin is put on it.
Third, ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ are just words, and clearly the ranks of the left are overflowing with hypocrisy in their attempts to crown themselves the champions of what these words are supposed to represent. Freedom is also a word, as is ‘wealth’. One could argue that being free to self-determine is the ultimate test of whether ones life is ‘fair’ or not, yet the policies you espouse suppress freedom, and suppress the ability of individuals to benefit from their own efforts.
If you want everyone to be equal, Paul, then give me equal time to speak to your students and rebut your points. Given me equal time to speak on the networks, or CSPAN and in front of Congress as the career politicians have. While you're at it, let's mandate that ‘instructors’ at all universities make the same salary as the university President. To be fair, you can base those salaries on hours worked.
Actually, the biggest hypocrisy of all from those who push the same stale concepts that you are pushing, is that ultimately you are pushing the suppression of the individual, and the suppression of the rights of individual citizens to distinguish their lives and find meaning in their lives in their own way. All the while, you support those individuals in government, and the media, and the entertainment industry who distinguish themselves by their titles, and their ‘soapboxes’ from which they tell the rest of us how to live. Try addressing a President, or Senator, or Congressman by their first name instead of their title. Try calling a judge by their first name instead of ‘your honor’. Their positions are a form of ‘wealth’, and is part of their compensation. The left lives on hierarchy as much or more than anyone else in society, and have no claim whatsoever on ‘fairness’ or ‘equality’.
Try using the definition that ‘equality’ is the equal right of individuals to self-determine. Oh, and please send us your tax return so that we can see just how ‘fair’ individuals like yourself live their lives.
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