Squ33ze M3
ZaedKai
Squ33ze M3
I'm currently enrolled in college and honestly, I have refused to get any student loans. I won't lie, occasionally the thought has crossed my mind. But at the moment, I rather not sign up myself for a large debt just yet. My current goal is to transfer to a University but money is proving to be a huge challenge. I have a high enough GPA to get grants or financial aid, but I receive none due to the fact that my family "receives a high income." So everything I pay for comes straight out of my pocket, trust me when I saw this, but I'm quite sure I've shed a few tears on the money I've been spending for education.
What people are forgetting is that as the economy gets worse, so does the gap between the rich and the poor expand. My family is part of the middle class and it seems we are slowly disappearing with that category. In the past, we could have lived off one paycheck for a while and save some of the money of the following paycheck. But now, it seems once the paycheck arrives, we need to use it to live by on just basic needs.
Between the two, I would rather re-elect Obama.
I respect everything you said; I just want to say one thing about something you mentioned. If you implied that the gap between the rich and the poor is expanding because the economy is getting worse, an argument can be made that the gap is expanding based on the natural evolution of our economy. It's a tough problem to solve, but I don't think taxing the wealthy is the way to solve it.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that fact. I've learned this before in some history classes and political science, but I suppose it slipped my mind. Thanks for adding that in, I completely agree with you with the natural evolution of our economy.
Although, taxing the wealthy solution has been implied by many, I'm quite sure there are more solutions out there to consider. It seems whenever this solution is brought up, it just causes a much more heated argument and debate among many.
Honestly, this is where the more interesting political debates happen. It's such a complicated issue because if you tax wealthy americans, you risk taxing them too much. (Many wealthy americans are business owners, so they'd pay the personal taxes and the corporate taxes) and that could lead, depending on the extent of the taxing, to job loss, and that's not really something we could afford in our current economy.
The big problem is the super wealthy. No one in the world needs more than a billion dollars to live (I can probably subsist for the rest of my life off that amount), and yet, you can't say the people who are billionaires didn't earn it. It's not moral for governments to ask billionares to fork over half their money, and that directly contradicts the American dream. It's such a tricky issue to figure out.
The thing I take hope in is the pledge a bunch of extremely wealthy people have signed recently, promising half their fortunes to charity upon their deaths. It just shows that not all rich people are evil.