A SHORT HISTORY OF RIGHT WING DESTRUCTION

I was just observing a forum that has a debate about taxes on the rich.

You usually get a few standard defenses of the status quo.  The rich "earned" their money.  The rich "pay most of the taxes."  I never got a job from a "poor" person.  You generally will also get a few other homilies such as claims the rich create jobs and higher taxes are "job killers."

Why are people defending a system that makes most of us servants to the rich and powerful?  The rich don't give anyone a job because they're benevolent folks with good hearts.  They give someone a job because that person can create a profit and more riches for the rich person.

The rich pay most of the taxes, not because they're treated so grossly unfairly, but because they have most of the money and property.  Just where would people collect taxes to pay for the infrastructure that makes a civilized society possible?  Do you collect it from the people at the bottom who don't have anything?  And who benefits most from the infrastructure we have?  Is it the poor or the people at the top of the wealth pyramid?

The rich "earn" their money because of the collective efforts of lots of other people who make it possible.  And a good part of what they "earn" is  interest and other perks that come with having lots of money.  They aren't earning it by hard work or creativity.

There's nothing wrong with people having wealth if that wealth is created honestly and with integrity.  There is something very wrong with a system that exploits the majority of the people for the benefit of a few.