Who Am I 2

Who I am today hasn't changed much from who I was from my first blog. My goals in life are still the same, but I may have added a few. I want to be the best I can be at what ever they may be. I feel if you are asked to do something and you accept then you should do the best job you can. Just by doing that you will most likely have few enemies. Life is short so I try to make the best out of what ever I have, sometimes it may not be much but you just have to do what you need to do. By making the best out of what you have it allows for a long happy life... hopefully!

Winners and Losers

I agree with the fact that our system depends on losers. Without the losers we would indeed fail. However what if it was possible for there to not be as many losers in this same system? For there to be fewer losers the “winners” would have to sacrifice some of what they have. The simple answer to this question is no one, no day everyone takes what that have and they don’t give. For someone to become the winner they have to be the greedy one, they take everything they can and give back little to none. It’s like Lawrence says “employees are the losers.” Employers will take every opportunity to pay their employees as little as possible, but just enough to stick around. Every employer knows that if they don’t pay enough they won’t get any help, but if they pay to much they will have too much flocking to them. This is exactly why they’re so many Americans that are paid in the $10 an hour range. If we were to try and fix the problem of there being so many losers we would most likely fail, unless it started from the top. If all of the winners gave the losers a break and let them win then it could give them a shot. It could only take the winners a small amount of their own profits to allow for a number of the losers to become their own winner. All it really takes to be the winner is to in some way have power over others. When Lawrence says “what would happen if all the people making $10 an hour or less quit working for a month”? The reason there would be such chaos is because almost everyone who does something works for that amount of money. Why should you get paid so little to do hard physical labor? It’s because the winners take for granted everything they have, and they know if their employees stop working, they have many more people who would love to work for them.

Flat Tax or Fair Tax

I believe that progressive tax is the way it should stay. With a progressive tax everyone pays in the same percent of the money they make. “If one person earned $50,000 a year and another earned $300,000 a year, both would pay 17 percent of their income to the federal government.” I one is making more money they should have to pay more taxes on that money. If someone making more money they shouldn’t get to pay less tax due to making more money. If we had a flat tax the people who get paid less could end up paying more taxes on less money. In a flat tax you would always pay the same amount so this means no deductions if you would qualify for one. The idea of changing the way we do taxes is so it could possibly be fairer for everyone. Honestly I don’t think a flat tax could be very fair. If you are making millions why should you have to pay the same amount of tax as someone making fewer than fifty thousand a year? If anything a flat tax is more unfair, especially to the many of people who don’t make very much money. If the government was to institute a flat tax they would have to find a way to make it fair for everyone. One way this would be possible is to split everyone in to different classes. Each class would have to be split into a group close to the next one. It could be split into groups by the tens of thousands. This would allow it to be me as fair as possible for everyone. Even with this some people would always get away with a little bit of an unfair amount of money compared to someone else in that bracket or class.