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Welcome to the Class War
by Lowell Ponte
In the Great Class War between the “rich” and the government, whose side are you on?
This week MarketWatch reported [ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-richest-1-people-in-the-world-are-on-track-to-control-two-thirds-of-wealth-by-2030-2018-04-10 ] that by 2030, “the richest 1%” are on track to “control nearly 66% of the world’s money.” This is approximately $305 Trillion, it reported, based on data from the hard-left British newspaper The Guardian, best-selling French Marxist economist Thomas Piketty, and ideologically-similar sources. The activist group Oxfam warns that “just eight billionaires have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people – the poorest half of the world.”
Such words seem intended to stoke jealousy and envy behind a mask of compassion and fairness. It is unjust, we are to think, that a utopia of pure equality is being thwarted because wealth is redistributed by capitalists instead of socialists.
In the United States the top 1% pays 45.7% -- 2.7 times their “fair share” -- of individual income taxes. Under the even-more-Progressive new tax law, the top 20% will pay 87% of all income taxes. The bottom 40% will not only pay nothing, but also get money from the Earned Income Tax Credit and other special provisions that turn our tax system into a welfare system.
Income taxes account for roughly 37% of U.S. Government revenues, compared with only about 24% in Europe where consumption taxes distribute the burden more broadly. In Sweden they even tax welfare checks, so that everyone helps bear society’s costs.
Does Class Warfare produce a healthy society? No, it produces an attitude that those richer than you deserve to have their money taken away -- and given to you.
Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi – net worth reportedly $40 Million – offer to rob the rich on your behalf via taxes. But those they polarize increasingly
want to rob the hated rich directly, without any self-serving middlemen.
(Have you noticed that Democrats favor Hate Crime laws based on race, sex, gender, and almost every other difference between people – except class? Democrats would go out of business overnight if preaching class hatred against the rich became a crime. It is their bread and butter issue.)
MarketWatch concedes that the world’s top 1% today controls only $140 Trillion, but at 6% compound interest this is expected to increase to $305 Trillion by 2030. What MarketWatchdoes not mention, however, is that everyone making around $37,000 a year is in the world’s top 1% of incomes – and thus even many of our “poor” are targeted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) plan for a confiscatory global wealth tax.
“Wealth” in the world comes in at least two currencies – the coin of money, and the coin of power.
Real wealth comes from power.