cheineck wrote:
Did you ever consider that the rich get richer by working harder and working smarter? Steve Jobs, Bill Gates... etc. And by the way they created jobs for many thousands of people and enriched the work and lives of millions more. Sure there were, and are,"robber barons", but many "rich" people earned it the hard way---they worked for it.
Not questioning the hard workers, and they deserve all the money they make. It is the non-producers, like the financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, investment brokers; that come up with the derivatives, and schemes to make easy money. These are the companies and people whose greed caused our financia;l collapse.
I bet on a percentage scale, we paid a higher tax percentage than Gates and Jobs. Even these hard workers have said that they would pay more taxes, but the tax code allowed them all these deductions. I know I paid a higher percentage than Romney!
Our government did not bail out Gates or Jobs, they bailed out the financial giants, wall street, and banks..and that greed is creeping back in again.