#poolitics

The reason we want to tax the rich, over paid billionaires in our country is because they themselves have chosen to give their workers a pay that they cannot live on. We have people who are working for giant corporations in which their CEO is making more per hour than their lowest paid worker makes in an entire year. (30 million a year is the equivalent of 14,380 an hour for a basic 40 hour 5 day work week and 15,000 is the country’s minimum wage salary) Those same underpaid workers are unable to feed their families, provide child care, or have access to decent medical care on their own and turn to federal government aid such as food stamps and Medicaid. We are already using government money to allow the working class the ability to survive. America has allowed an unethical class difference to happen in which the people who work a full time job are unable to support their family and in the same day we have the top 0.1% making a 24% higher annual wage increase in comparison to the bottom 90% of America since the recession hit. That is solely based on wage income not including investment income. This wage discrepancy has become more apparent particularly after the recession. So what can working Americans do to reach the top 0.01% or even the top 1%? Most people start by going to college, to get away from the starter position, so they can apply for more competitive pay. Then for the next decade they will pay the equivalent of most people’s car payments, around $380, every month to pay off their attempt to get out of poverty. They apply for debt that is around the equivant salary amount they expect to make with their newly borrowed degree, $37,000. What does this mean for today’s society? Millennials- being one of the highest educated generations, are marrying later, and not able to invest in housing due to the accumulation of debt and lack of income. So let’s break what he have here down. Working families cannot currently afford basic necessities, top 0.01% have seen a significantly higher wage increase than 90% of Americans since the recession, and working for a college degree to get to a better position in life leaves people in thousands of dollars in debt preventing house investments. This is not a stable base for the capitalist economy we live in. We have strong working class individuals who cannot live the lives that our grandparents lived due to the wage gaps present. CEOs have continually given themselves raises while undercutting those who support their businesses because America has let them do it. America needs to fix that and tax those who make more than they can spend in their lifetime. No more tax avoidance from major companies. 60 of the Fortune 500 companies, with an accumulative of $79 billion dollars in profit, didn’t pay anything towards taxes in 2018. They collectively should have owed $16.4 billion but instead received $4.3 billion dollars in tax rebates. With just 60 companies paying their fair share in taxes- they would pay over a third of the estimated financial cost of college for Americans who make less than 125,000 a year, or college for all.

These radical ideas we are proposing aren’t to prevent people from working hard to live a more comfortable lifestyle, these are common sense solutions to the problems American Government has let fester. There is an undeniable wage gap and living difference between 90 percent of Americans and the people who choose to underpay them for their own greed. We cannot live in a society in which those who are working cannot survive paycheck to paycheck. We cannot thrive when 40 percent of Americans are one missed paycheck away from living in poverty . We cannot ethically allow billionaires to avoid fair taxation because it is killing us. This whole rant doesn’t even gloss over the millions of Americans who are on disability who cannot work who are suffering financially. This doesn’t even touch the financial despair retired individuals face when choosing rent or needed medicine. This sure as hell doesn’t touch on those in especially low-income areas disproportionately affecting black and ethnic minority Americans.

The most patriotic thing you can do is recognize that the American Dream is an engineered idea from corporate America that is unattainable in 2019. Reject the idea that anyone can work themselves into these positions without fucking over their workers. Remove the people in positions of power who benefit from screwing over 90% of Americans.

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