Take a good hard look at that graphic. I mean really look at who supports America.
Who pays for national defense and homeland security, good schools and a crumbling infrastructure, the upcoming costs of Social Security?
In an amazing show of complete short sightedness, the socialists of this word, the Hillary Clinton's who say we are going to take from the rich for the "common good", taken directly from the communist manifesto, the Salon idiots that suggest we steal more from the rich but never once ask themselves, what if the rich of this world, the ones that pay 96.54% of everything, the ones that employ millions of people, the ones that provide health insurance to millions of people.... no longer cared to do so?
Let's look at what the short sighted geniuses of Salon have to say about that:
What’s fair? I’d say a 50 percent marginal tax rate on the very rich, meaning those earning over $500,000 per year. I’d also suggest an annual wealth tax of one-half of 1 percent on the net worth of people holding more than $5 million in total assets. Can’t be done, you say? Well, the highest marginal tax rate under Republican Dwight Eisenhower was 91 percent. It dropped under John Kennedy to the 70 percent range. You say the rich will leave the country rather than face a marginal tax of 50 percent? Let them, and take away their citizenship.
Without this idiotic plan, look at the statistics of how much of our programs the rich pay for now.
96.54% (refer to graph above)
Let us assume we take their asinine suggestion and let the rich take their money, leave the country and take away their citizenship.
What then?
Who would be left to pay for the food stamps of the employees that would no longer have jobs?
Who would be left to pay for the healthcare of those employees that would no longer have it provided by those rich they just suggested leave and do not come back?
Who would be left to pay that 96.54% revenue that our country is now receiving from the top 50% of wage earners?
Who would be left to pay for national defense?
Who would be left to pay for homeland security?
Who would be left to pay for good schools?
Who would be left to pay for crumbling infrastructure?
Who would be left to pay for upcoming costs of Social Security?
Easy to talk big and say let them leave, but I do not see anyone addressing who would be left to make up for that revenue?
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?
To shrug.
If the socialists of this world continue to try to punish the rich and steal what they work for and earn, if they continue to add more of the worlds weight to their shoulders.... one day they may just decide to shrug.
Where would that leave the remaining 50% of Americans?
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