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Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Most people agree that the rich should pay more ....that it is the fairest system. It makes a society, like the US once was, stronger because it encourages upward mobility and a strong middle class. A weak middle class is more vulnerable to takeover either externally or internally. If you think about it from the framework of ancient history. The stratified society of the Roman Empire fell apart as their leaders became too self-absorbed and eventually the Germanic Tribes prevailed. Countries fall apart internally at first.
.........Today the US tax system does NOT encourage upward mobility. So the middle class is left to ROT with problems of crime, drugs, suicide, race relations and other internal strife. Manufacturing technology is outsourced to China, which made GREAT wealth for one segment of the US society, and NOT the middle class.
..........The Florida tax system is designed to discourage upward mobility as is the amount of money spent on elementary and secondary public education. The principle in Florida Education is "elite" education.

Who? Socialists? People that leach off of government?