Greed if you are a Religious person (I’m not) is number 3 of the 7 deadly sins… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Greed_.28Latin.2C_avaritia.29
and yet it is the basis and the role model by which the modern American professional lives their lives…
The Average CEO originally earned 7 times what his lowest paid worker earned (back when the word "corporation" was young 1866) now He/She earns 400-500 times what they earn.. in fact the CEO of Exxon earns about 11,000.00 an hour…
we constantly hear about how our economy Grew over the last 7 years, but only for about 20% of the population, the other 80% stagnated in that same time, and the bottom 40% went from sharing 2% of the wealth to .02% …
So please, don’t throw flowery epithets at me…
Justify for me in real terms why it is acceptable, ..even defensible … that we should have 13 million children that go to bed hungry every night in the quote unquote richest country in the world..
The morals of our society have absolutely nothing to do with a shriveled Job market ?
Once again, you infuse morality and profit ?
Create real Jobs where people earn real wages and watch them flourish, force them into a hole that they can’t see sunlight out of and watch them turn into criminals.. the ‘"starving child Myth" ????? wow… that’s as low as it gets..
it is in fact unacceptable. many people who argue "zomg taxes are theft!" don’t understand basic economics which dictate that the wealth of some come at the expense of others – namely that the huge increase in the wealth of corporate leaders has come at the expense of layoffs and pay cuts at the lower ends of the corporate hierarchy. the theft of the rightful wages of workers to benefit ceo’s has already occurred and proper taxation of those who have benefited from this lopsided scheme just corrects that imbalance. the significantly smaller gap between earnings of workers and company leaders in the 60s is one of the main reasons why the middle class prospered and expanded at that time. obviously we are in an opposite situation these days…