Taxes and Wealth Distribution

[PHXConx]

Which is it?

How would bringing in immigrants who, according to you, are here for a "handout", fund a "Ponzi scheme"?

You really need to pick a position and stick with it. Are they here for free stuff, or are they here to fund the "ponzi scheme"?

If it is the latter, then they are working and paying taxes. If it is the former, you agree with the original premise of the thesis.

 
 
what a straw man.. illegal immigration hurts the economy in mulitple ways its not  an "if its this its not that."  anyone who says it is isnt paying attention or more likely being deliberately dishonest.. which are you?
 
 
 
there are those that come here for honest work while more honorable (ie not part of a gang or drug running)  its still hurting the economy while they are paying taxes, if they have a stolen social security number and NOT being paid under the table, they still  make far less than their legal and natural born counter parts so they arent funding anything.. even if they were paying taxes, at 10% or none at all, if making under that 10% threshhold there is nothing keeping them from claiming exempt, hell there is nothing keeping them from doing it anyway... 
 
so if this was going to legal immigrants or natural born citizens far more would be funded...  
 
and there are those here for the handouts and they hurt everyone as well.  

 

[delldude]

The thesis statement is worth repeating:

"Since the Reagan administration, upward wealth distribution has accelerated in the United States resulting in increasing inequality of both income and wealth. The growth of inequality since the 1980s is particularly shocking because, from the turn of the century and until the Reagan administration, the United States and Western Europe ex- perienced small but stable declines in wealth and income inequality. Now, three decades after the Reagan Revolution, the United States enjoys both growing poverty and a shrinking middle class."

To be fair, income inequality and wealth disparity are two distinct subject areas. They do not always share causal relationship.

 
So income inequality and wealth disparity had no doing with the birth of the labor movement and ever expanding social programs?
 
You need growing poverty and the elimination of middle class for progressive socialism (communist lite) to work properly.
 
A little studying in the political arena will show how progressives in both parties have slowly made gains in Congress since the Reagan years until the 2008 election when the progressive left took the Oscar.