Originally Posted by
motz
You can't take risks you can't afford. I mean really, that's reality 101. Part of the reason why the gap has expanded is because the middle and lower classes make less money [[paying taxes on their earnings while others use tax loopholes, deductions and other accounting tricks not available to those people to avoid doing so) which means they can't take as much risk without possibly putting not just their livelihood, but their entire existence in jeopardy.
And please note, you're way way overgeneralizing with the stereotypical, GOP-inflated caricature of a "Tax-and-spend Liberal". I believe that corporations and wealthy individuals should pay taxes just as you and I do. I don't make an amazing sum of money, but I pay my taxes because I believe in paying for services rendered to me by the government. They fix my roads, they educated me, they allowed for me to continue to afford food while I was unemployed, you catch the drift. The inability for a corporate entity that is making massive amounts of profits to pay back into a system from which they benefit through the construction and maintenance of infrastucture [[which they use quite frequently) as well as the trade treaties arranged by our government, the protections of a legal system, the protections of the patent system, I could go on and on. The point remains - people [[which includes corporations now, thanks to your Corporatist sect) who benefit from the system should pay into the system just as you and I do.
I know it is over your head that people should pay for services rendered, but that's what it boils down to. Major corporations have allowed for this country to become an amazingly strong world power, but now they seem to feel that because they helped build the palace, they shouldn't have to do any maintenance work because they are above it.