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Originally Posted by Marine1974
Mindless Union dolts ? Can you explain your disdain for fellow Americans ? 🇺🇸
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I could TRY and explain that (at least, my version). The upper 15% in the US have received FAVORABLE tax treatment overall starting in about 1990. Then you have the "birds of a feather" concept where they stick together and associate ONLY with like-minded millionaires. They are mostly males and feel threatened around a smart woman who makes a large salary. people say, "A woman must be 5 times as competent as a male to succeed in management".
........The IRS laws and tax tables in place since about 1990 give benefit to the upper income class. This has the effect of moving the WEALTH from the middle class upward to the upper classes - Warren Buffet famously said. " It is not fair that I pay less taxes than my own secretary". In real income (taking inflation into account), the UAW workers have NOT gotten a pay increase since about 1975. The same for MOST blue-collar workers in the US. They have gotten some increase after COVID due to fewer available skilled blue-collar workers. White-collar workers in most large corporations HAVE gotten pay increases since 1975.
..........That is MY opinion as to WHY someone would think of blue-collar workers as "mindless dolts". The rich (partly due to tax advantages) (and passing wealth down untaxed from generation to generation) feel superior to and look DOWN upon blue-collar workers. They tend to forget that after WW2 the US accumulated great WEALTH on the backs of factory workers (from about 1950 to 1975).