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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with leftist policies that claim to go after the money of billionaires is that they never actually go after the billionaires but in actuality the middle class are the ones who get the bill.

They put out propaganda about how it is unfair that the .001% have 50% of all wealth and the bottom 50% have 5% or some shit and then the solution is a welfare program that takes money out of the pockets of the middle class who pay all the taxes while the 1% still don't pay a dime. Meanwhile the welfare program is the 50th one and the last 49 did absolutely nothing to reduce inequality because all the money you hand over to the welfare class is squandered. And now the middle class, who would have used that money to start a business or fund an innovation can't afford to do that.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That is not the problem of "leftist policies" - that is a problem of political corruption - on both sides of the aisle.

I agree that welfare is little a band-aid on a major traumatic wound when we should be worried about the bigger picture, the rigged unfair systems, the endless "laws" in their favour, and the excessive leverage of the ruling class - and all of these factors are causing the major traumatic wound. We need to deal with the source of the wound, but we still need that little band-aid as it's keeping millions of people alive, and we need to make it bigger and improve its efficacy.

The middle class are NOT held back by the poor.

They are held back by the policies handed down by the ruling class.