[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

One man's fallacy is another man's fact and most important American principle - that a STRONG middle class makes a STRONG COUNTRY. Today we have a STRONG upper-income class.......just like the ancient Romans had when Rome fell. We have outsourced our MIDDLE-CLASS to China. Now everyone can see that THEY are taking that STRONG middle class and flexing their muscle against BOTH the US and Taiwan. So, yes I do think that the legislative changes to the tax RATES put in place for the benefit of the upper class after the 1950s are DANGEROUS for the US and the world. I AM aware of it, most are not. Please allow me to have an OPINION!

The above paragraph relates the BASIS that has allowed people from Jack Welsh and the Koch brothers to Steve Jobs, Sam Bankman-Fried, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, AND OUR FAVORITE IN THIS CONVERSATION--------the wonderful ELON MUSK - to PULL from the US economy more riches than any South American DICTATOR possesses. I am NOT saying that those individuals do NOT deserve to earn/accumulate more riches than people in the middle class. It is a matter of degree. Japanese CEOs used to (and still may) be embarrassed to make more than 10 times what their average line worker makes. Musk and Zuckerberg make thousands of times more than their worker bees. That is the DEGREE and the problem of which I speak. I am NOT saying to change the American system - just to make it fairer and RESTORE the middle class which the upper class has outsourced to China and other countries.

When we talk about a "dumpster fire" that is BOTH Musk and SB-F........they are merely actors taking ADVANTAGE of their GREATER environment. The US economic environment in which most resources / money have drifted upward from the middle-class to the uber-upper class from 1950 to today. That is the REAL dumpster fire!