ORIGINAL: ckammp
Your damn right I work for a living. What the hell do you do? Judging by the amount of time you spend writing inane bullshit in these forums, I'm guessing you have a lot of time on your hands, like the typical lazy freeloaders you claim to loathe.
Those "wealthy business owners" wanted a revolution not for their workers' sake, but to have the freedom to tax themselves, rather than have a distant government tax them. And what do you think they did when they won? Set up legal exemptions for themselves and passed on the taxes to the workers. The same principle applies today. If you think whatever wealthy business owner who supposedly pays your salary really gives a damn whether or not you have a job, you are even more deluded than a Democrat.
Intellectually vapid. A clear representation of socialist/progressive historical thought.
You have no knowledge of the "real history" of the American Revolution. Or, the founding principles of the country.
Do some research? When did taxes enter the picture? Especially the progressive income tax.
Politicians should be your targets. Even those who are not wealthy seem to be willing to make themselves rich and the entire country poor for the power they believe is put into their hands. (Both D's and R's).
Sadly, we have gotten so far away from where the true power resides (THE PEOPLE), and have been fed "the wealthy are the enemy" bovine excreta line so often, that our citizens have let themselves be legislated to the class of sheep. It's easy to get people on your side when you go against "them" (not just the rich but other who are not you).
Serfs lorded over by the ruling class. That is why we had a revolution in the first place?
The truth is that no poor person ever created and sustained a single job. The majority of employment comes from small business owners. Most of our poor are considered rich by world standards.
A lot of the early "wealthy" founding fathers ended up dead, their families dead, or poor. "Lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" meant something to them. Little to some today.
This discussion started off with "un-historical" "facts". It is being sustained by it too.
My two cents.
Nice discussion. [:)]
RR
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations