Take a look at this site:
http://freedomkeys.com/gap.htm
which explains it mathematically. And take a look at this chart:
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As Robert A. Heinlein said, "Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty." |
These are the bassetmans, the champs, the Linskys, the Xicos, the Reps--the liberals. I don't know that they really believe by punishing the rich, they will help the poor--certainly
all of the objective data says that is not true--that by punishing the rich the poor will suffer as well (and it fact--just look at the chart--the gap has been widening for a long time but as the rich get richer, so do the poor). Sometimes, the people simply can't comprehend or refuse to look at the objective data--like poochee who thinks that riasing the minimum wage will help the poor when virtually every study done--many at liberal universities shows the poor are actually hurt by raises in minimum wage.
So my point is these people call me and Gbrumb and Ciber and LAN and Bill.amm and those of us that have actually taken the time to think this through rationally and look at the data as selfish when in reality, there is nothing more I would love to see than there to be no poor because that makes it better for all of us. But we won't get there by taxing the rich more. Its those of us who are not rich, but yet can separate our emotions and our envy to do what's best for the country regardless of our personal feelings. Liberals can't separate their emotions to take a look at the logic and facts--its that simple.