How the Richest Get Richer

[butler]

@H200h

Is it fair for the ultra-rich to pay dark money to the people making the laws (legislators,) and the people with the ultimate authority to interpret those laws, (SCOTUS judges,) to make and enforce laws that give huge tax breaks available only to themselves, (the ultra-rich?)

Fair share is the amount it takes to provide and maintain promises laid out in our Constitution. ie: " form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," divided by the citizenry and adjusted to meet all those advantages laid out in the Preamble to our Constitution.

It takes money to follow through with the promise our Constitution offers to each citizen. The folks who occupy the highest levels of income in our country benefit from the labor of the people who occupy the lowest levels of the economic ladder. Is it fair for a person in that upper echelon of earners of wealth to keep thousands of times the money required for the essentials of life and require someone in the bottom to “get along” with half what they need to put food in the mouths of their kids?

I think that a fair share of the expense to support our economic system should be based on the value extracted from that system. And given that some people will, through a combination of skill and chance, outperform the others it is a fact that they will have benefited more from the system and a fair solution would be for them to shoulder a higher percentage of the associated costs of maintaining that system. Given the fact that everyone needs to have enough capital for essential living needs, that amount should not be subject to the tax supporting the economic system. To do otherwise would result in such a disparity it would detract from the good of the country, (domestic Tranquility,) as a whole.

This is a nice manifesto…but did not answer any of my simple questions.