What the honorable member is saying is that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer.
Inequality is GOOD.
Equality is BAD.
Everyone is equally starving in North Korea and Venezuela.
Here in the US of A folks without enough income can be provided a wealth of programs to provide food, heat and housing assistance.
These poor folks do have the opportunity to work themselves out of poverty.
Wealthy people here are free to loose everything and start over.
Equality is BAD — those who actively push for equality are communists and, as such, are a rick to our fundamental freedoms.
We must eliminate inequality. At 5’9” I never had a chance to make it in the NBA (I also never played basketball growing up but that’s irrelevant). I could be a multi-millionaire if the NBA was forced to treat us all equally. And since they don’t the government should reimburse me for the high $ contract the NBA never offered.
For anyone having a hard time imagining this...I live in Germany and will give it a fair portrayal.
Germans dislike changing jobs. Germans have gotten into the habit of not asking for pay-raises. Germans readily accept fifty-percent or more of their salary going toward social security, healthcare, taxation, etc. Germans accept taxation on just about everything as the price to pay for the infrastructure around them. Germans don’t ask questions when 250 million is spent on a regional airport (Kassel) that will never have any regular air traffic or potential for revenue.
German companies can’t really compete against other countries except when you have some new technology developed which they hold the initial advantage over. German banks are saddled with lots of debt. Germans whine and complain about a lack of affordable housing in major urban areas, but politicians can’t entice real estate people to build housing which pays minimum profits. German EPA-related rules are such that lots of production is now done in Eastern Europe.
Germans would like to fire various political parties but accept the fact that things will change once the established thugs are fired. Germans complain about heathcare options and cost, but there is no plan B or way to fix this except to lessen the number of hospitals in existence (which what they are now doing). German doctors whine about their pay scale....enough that they occasionally pack up and leave the country...thus forcing hospitals to recruit in third-world countries and bring their doctors into Germany.
The whole gimmick that makes the immigration episode acceptable? You get a bunch of new people in....who will accept lower pay than the typical average German.
What the honorable member is saying is that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer.
Really? So they factored in all those rapugee’s that showed up?