Democrats solution to everything

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: Riprorin

Originally posted by: Trevelyan
Keynesian economics is the answer.

Isn't Keynes considered the intellectual architect of the postwar inflation and the modem welfare state?

Large government spending and low taxes...that makes me think of a certain Republican president...I can't quite put my finger on which though...

Which also makes me come to the conclusion that Riprorin is actually a liberal. Why else would he make so many retarded posts that make conservatives look bad.

 

[Ozoned]

How, exactly, does a rich person paying more tax, benefit a middle class or poor person?

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Ozoned
How, exactly, does a rich person paying more tax, benefit a middle class or poor person?

Larger, more destructive, more realistic phallically shaped nuclear missiles.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: Ozoned
How, exactly, does a rich person paying more tax, benefit a middle class or poor person?

It might imply that taxes had been lowered for the poor and the middle class. The government would receive the same amount of revenue, taking more of it from the upper classes and upper middle class and less from the lower and middle classes. Thus the benefit.

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper

Originally posted by: Ozoned
How, exactly, does a rich person paying more tax, benefit a middle class or poor person?

It might imply that taxes had been lowered for the poor and the middle class. The government would receive the same amount of revenue, taking more of it from the upper classes and upper middle class and less from the lower and middle classes. Thus the benefit.

The recent proposed tax increase was to remove the social security cap. That was it...Didn't say nothing about poor folks.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What makes people hate the rich anyway?

Is it anything more than pure envy?

Who said anything about hating the rich? You think ALL rich people are republicans? You don't think there are any rich people who don't mind higher taxes if it helped those less fortunate? Is your ability to reason that limited?

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What makes people hate the rich anyway?

Is it anything more than pure envy?

Who said anything about hating the rich? You think ALL rich people are republicans? You don't think there are any rich people who don't mind higher taxes if it helped those less fortunate? Is your ability to reason that limited?

How do you know that the less fortunate want help. Is that something you learned at the ability to reason school?

 

[wavshrdr]

Here is what I don't understand about our current tax model, why is it the more you make, the greater percentage they take? If applied this logic to something perhaps such the Olympics, the faster the runner ran the 100m sprint, the more weight I would toss around his neck. Does this seem fair and equitable?

Furthermore why should I be penalized because I delayed my gratification by going to school, working my a$$ building my business, putting my own personal savings at risk to build said business and when I am finally successful, then penalized for my success? I assumed ALL the risk. The government then redistibutes my hard work to everyone else.

Why is it that in the US we typical citizens pay a higher rate of taxes than Russians? Why is it that if you took all the money we have spent on social programs in the past years since Pres. Johnson created the true welfare state that we could have bought ALL of the top Fortune 500 companies. Instead we have pi$$ed the money away and have nothing to show for it but more people on welfare.

I am not opposed to taxes but I want accountability of how the money is spent. I fundamentally think there is something wrong when my total tax burden amounts to over 50% of my income. Why should I work more for the government than myself. I look at my friends working in Germany and Holland and just cringe. I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. I know though I DON'T want their system here and that is what the Dems are edging toward. Fundamentally they want a nanny state. I don't want that. I want to have the chance to be rewarded for my excellence.

My friends in Germany at the lowest levels of income initially paid 53% in income tax alone. Add 16% VAT (value added tax) to all their purchases, $7/gal for fuel, $3000 for car license each year, etc. etc. and my friend making 25,000 Euro a year ends up only have about 75% of their income in taxes alone! It is no wonder Germany has 13% unemployment because my friend would have more money if she didn't work and lived on welfare!!!

I worked hard to finally start to be successful and why should I give up my hard work so some lazy butt person can sit around and do nothing? I am willing to pay a reasonable share but I don't want my money being flushed down the toilet. You can't protect everyone from anything. When a company I worked for went bankrupt I didn't set around and whine, I worked my but off and found another job. I basically started from scratch all over again. I don't need a nanny state to take care of me. I don't think government can take better care of me than myself.

A cradle to grave nanny state is incredibly costly. Do you want to spend 75% of your income for that? Do you really want socialized medicine? Have you ever had the misfortune to use it? It sucks! I had it when I lived in Austria and I STILL paid a doctor so that I could choose who I wanted and to get good quality care! The Dems stand for nothing now so much as just against the Republicans. While I don't agree with the Republicans on every issue at least the have a vision of something.

I agree that we should re-construct the UN. Social Security DOES need an overall. We need a more fair and understandable tax code. We should have school choice. States (not the Federal government) should decide issues such as the death penalty and abortion. Schools need money but when they take over 50% of the budget there is a problem there and they have no accountability. We need a strong military but we don't need defense contractor waste! I am tired of pork barrel projects that only benefit one state but screw the rest of the general populace. I want leaders with good ethics. Delay should get the hell out of office.

I don't want any sleazy Hillary running for office. Maybe her next chicken deal with be 100 million instead of 100k. We should tolerate gays and all people but we should not grant ANY group of people any special rights. I don't want my children being taught about alternative lifestyles. Parents should be responsible for their children first! We need to practice fiscal restraint with spending. Have you ever heard of a country being TAXED INTO PROSPERITY????? Taxes by their very nature are dis-incentives. They are punitive and not designed to encourage growth. That is my biggest problem with Dems in their current flavor, taxes ARE their answer to everything. Before you get another dime from me I want to see an accounting of how you are already effectively using the money you already steal from me. Why do you think they withhold the money from your paycheck first? Because the want to pay themselves first instead of you and also they know that if you had to write them a huge check each week for the money they steal from you they would never get it. That is why payroll taxes are so sneaky. You never make the connection between your GROSS and NET wages. If you saw they were taken almost 4 out of every $10 you made just for Federal Tax you would start to wonder where it went too!

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: wavshrdr
Here is what I don't understand about our current tax model, why is it the more you make, the greater percentage they take? If applied this logic to something perhaps such the Olympics, the faster the runner ran the 100m sprint, the more weight I would toss around his neck. Does this seem fair and equitable?

Furthermore why should I be penalized because I delayed my gratification by going to school, working my a$$ building my business, putting my own personal savings at risk to build said business and when I am finally successful, then penalized for my success? I assumed ALL the risk. The government then redistibutes my hard work to everyone else.

Why is it that in the US we typical citizens pay a higher rate of taxes than Russians? Why is it that if you took all the money we have spent on social programs in the past years since Pres. Johnson created the true welfare state that we could have bought ALL of the top Fortune 500 companies. Instead we have pi$$ed the money away and have nothing to show for it but more people on welfare.

I am not opposed to taxes but I want accountability of how the money is spent. I fundamentally think there is something wrong when my total tax burden amounts to over 50% of my income. Why should I work more for the government than myself. I look at my friends working in Germany and Holland and just cringe. I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. I know though I DON'T want their system here and that is what the Dems are edging toward. Fundamentally they want a nanny state. I don't want that. I want to have the chance to be rewarded for my excellence.

My friends in Germany at the lowest levels of income initially paid 53% in income tax alone. Add 16% VAT (value added tax) to all their purchases, $7/gal for fuel, $3000 for car license each year, etc. etc. and my friend making 25,000 Euro a year ends up only have about 75% of their income in taxes alone! It is no wonder Germany has 13% unemployment because my friend would have more money if she didn't work and lived on welfare!!!

I worked hard to finally start to be successful and why should I give up my hard work so some lazy butt person can sit around and do nothing? I am willing to pay a reasonable share but I don't want my money being flushed down the toilet. You can't protect everyone from anything. When a company I worked for went bankrupt I didn't set around and whine, I worked my but off and found another job. I basically started from scratch all over again. I don't need a nanny state to take care of me. I don't think government can take better care of me than myself.

A cradle to grave nanny state is incredibly costly. Do you want to spend 75% of your income for that? Do you really want socialized medicine? Have you ever had the misfortune to use it? It sucks! I had it when I lived in Austria and I STILL paid a doctor so that I could choose who I wanted and to get good quality care! The Dems stand for nothing now so much as just against the Republicans. While I don't agree with the Republicans on every issue at least the have a vision of something.

I agree that we should re-construct the UN. Social Security DOES need an overall. We need a more fair and understandable tax code. We should have school choice. States (not the Federal government) should decide issues such as the death penalty and abortion. Schools need money but when they take over 50% of the budget there is a problem there and they have no accountability. We need a strong military but we don't need defense contractor waste! I am tired of pork barrel projects that only benefit one state but screw the rest of the general populace. I want leaders with good ethics. Delay should get the hell out of office.

I don't want any sleazy Hillary running for office. Maybe her next chicken deal with be 100 million instead of 100k. We should tolerate gays and all people but we should not grant ANY group of people any special rights. I don't want my children being taught about alternative lifestyles. Parents should be responsible for their children first! We need to practice fiscal restraint with spending. Have you ever heard of a country being TAXED INTO PROSPERITY????? Taxes by their very nature are dis-incentives. They are punitive and not designed to encourage growth. That is my biggest problem with Dems in their current flavor, taxes ARE their answer to everything. Before you get another dime from me I want to see an accounting of how you are already effectively using the money you already steal from me. Why do you think they withhold the money from your paycheck first? Because the want to pay themselves first instead of you and also they know that if you had to write them a huge check each week for the money they steal from you they would never get it. That is why payroll taxes are so sneaky. You never make the connection between your GROSS and NET wages. If you saw they were taken almost 4 out of every $10 you made just for Federal Tax you would start to wonder where it went too!

Perhaps you should remember the less fortunate might appreciate your help.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What makes people hate the rich anyway?

Is it anything more than pure envy?

Who said anything about hating the rich? You think ALL rich people are republicans? You don't think there are any rich people who don't mind higher taxes if it helped those less fortunate? Is your ability to reason that limited?

How do you know that the less fortunate want help. Is that something you learned at the ability to reason school?

You're right. The "less fortunate" want to work at close to slave wages and raise their passel of children in dire poverty, near starvation, without any help.

:roll:

How absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: wavshrdr
Here is what I don't understand about our current tax model, why is it the more you make, the greater percentage they take? If applied this logic to something perhaps such the Olympics, the faster the runner ran the 100m sprint, the more weight I would toss around his neck. Does this seem fair and equitable?

Bad analogy. A better analogy would be we lived in a village that has to trek 5 miles away for water. The stronger people would hopefully take a heavier burden in fetching the water so that the old, weak, and sick did not have to suffer as much.

Furthermore why should I be penalized because I delayed my gratification by going to school, working my a$$ building my business, putting my own personal savings at risk to build said business and when I am finally successful, then penalized for my success? I assumed ALL the risk. The government then redistibutes my hard work to everyone else.

Because not everybody has had the same opportunity as us.

You see things so myopically. Where would you rather live? It's the exact same house, but one is in the ghetto where everybody is poor, or a middleclass neighbor? Probably the middleclass. Why? Because it's cleaner, safer, and just a better environment. If we just let everybody else around us go into the sh1ts, how do you think the society you live in is going to be like? Walk down skidrow where all the unemployed and drug dealers are, and how safe do you feel? Give those unemployed and criminals an opportunity to do the right thing, and they might actually take that opportunity, and that same road will be a lot safer.

Tthe reason why you have such good opportunies now is because of social movements back 100 years ago. At one time, America was 99% working class, and 1% wealthy... with no middle class. Children as young as 5-6 were working in mines... and you know why? Because their little fingers were small enough to shove into the dynamite holes. Children were used as chimney sweepers because they could fit in them. The 1% rich were absurdly rich, they were literally the aristocrats of America with such names as Rockefellar. Chances are if it wasn't for these 'liberal' movements back then, you would probably have grown up working in a factory as well.

There are men and women dying on the other side of the world... and do you know why? Because they're trying to make that part of the world a better place. Because if the rest of the world is a better place, then your world will be a better place too. A democratic nation has NEVER declared war on another democratic nation... you know why? Because when the people get to put a voice into whether they'll be going to war, sending their sons, daughters, fathers, mothers to war and possible death, they're less likely to vote for it. It's the same principle... if somebody has an opportunity to live a good life, they're less likely to commit crimes to ruin that life. If people can put their life on the line to make your world a better place, how can you be complaining about a little tax?

You don't live in a vacuum with your computer and all your other middleclass buddies. If the poverty in your city increases, crime in your city will increase. So it's not only altruistic to help others, but it benefits you as well. You can move into the suburbs to get away from it for a time... but let the world around you go to sh1ts, and we'll see what the world is like your children will grow up in... even in the suburbs.

 

[BBond]

Wavshdr is probably some kid living at home with his parents complaining about people taking HIS hare earned money.

Bwahahahaha

Past your bedtime Wavshdr. Leave a tooth under your pillow and maybe the tooth fairy will leave you some more money to complain about in the morning.

 

[Ozoned]

Rip, there is an oxymoron in your title.

 

[BBond]

Not to mention the moron in your thread. ^^^

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What makes people hate the rich anyway?

Is it anything more than pure envy?

Who said anything about hating the rich? You think ALL rich people are republicans? You don't think there are any rich people who don't mind higher taxes if it helped those less fortunate? Is your ability to reason that limited?

How do you know that the less fortunate want help. Is that something you learned at the ability to reason school?

You're right. The "less fortunate" want to work at close to slave wages and raise their passel of children in dire poverty, near starvation, without any help.

:roll:

How absolutely ridiculous.

The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What makes people hate the rich anyway?

Is it anything more than pure envy?

Who said anything about hating the rich? You think ALL rich people are republicans? You don't think there are any rich people who don't mind higher taxes if it helped those less fortunate? Is your ability to reason that limited?

How do you know that the less fortunate want help. Is that something you learned at the ability to reason school?

You're right. The "less fortunate" want to work at close to slave wages and raise their passel of children in dire poverty, near starvation, without any help.

:roll:

How absolutely ridiculous.

The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

That says all anyone needs to know about you.

Thanks.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: zendari
The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

Okay, I'm not saying this is what you believe (as it obviously isn't), but... let's just keep in mind that the same general crowd who is against "handouts and welfare queens" is also against abortion. For the most part.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: zendari
The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

Okay, I'm not saying this is what you believe (as it obviously isn't), but... let's just keep in mind that the same general crowd who is against "handouts and welfare queens" is also against abortion. For the most part.

It's called hypocrisy.

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: zendari
The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

Okay, I'm not saying this is what you believe (as it obviously isn't), but... let's just keep in mind that the same general crowd who is against "handouts and welfare queens" is also against abortion. For the most part.

It's called hypocrisy.

It's called personal responsibility and accounting for your own actions.

Killing babies is bad, but dumping some runt on taxpayer's door is worse.

There should be a minimum income level to have a child IMO. Estimates show some $9k per year to raise one, so I'd say 30-35k minimum combined income.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: zendari
The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

Okay, I'm not saying this is what you believe (as it obviously isn't), but... let's just keep in mind that the same general crowd who is against "handouts and welfare queens" is also against abortion. For the most part.

It's called hypocrisy.

It's called personal responsibility and accounting for your own actions.

Killing babies is bad, but dumping some runt on taxpayer's door is worse.

There should be a minimum income level to have a child IMO. Estimates show some http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2000/04/0138">$9k per year</a> to raise one, so I'd say 30-35k minimum combined income.

Personal responsibility?! Tell it to Tom DeLay. :roll:

I see you're a eugenist. Nice.

So what other restrictions would you put on parenting? Would you restrict the number of brown people along with the poor? Would you restrict people below a certain IQ? How about getting everyone's DNA just to make sure there aren't any errant genes in your reproductive nirvana?

Nazi.

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: zendari
The "less fortunate" shouldn't have children they can't afford. Abort it, I sure as hell don't want to pay for their sexual irresponsibity.

Okay, I'm not saying this is what you believe (as it obviously isn't), but... let's just keep in mind that the same general crowd who is against "handouts and welfare queens" is also against abortion. For the most part.

It's called hypocrisy.

It's called personal responsibility and accounting for your own actions.

Killing babies is bad, but dumping some runt on taxpayer's door is worse.

There should be a minimum income level to have a child IMO. Estimates show some http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2000/04/0138">$9k per year</a> to raise one, so I'd say 30-35k minimum combined income.

Personal responsibility?! Tell it to Tom DeLay. :roll:

I see you're a eugenist. Nice.

So what other restrictions would you put on parenting? Would you restrict the number of brown people along with the poor? Would you restrict people below a certain IQ? How about getting everyone's DNA just to make sure there aren't any errant genes in your reproductive nirvana?

Nazi.

I'd support restrictions in any circumstance where there is a probable chance before birth that the child will require a significant investment by the state. So no, no, and no, although I hope that if a parent has significant genetic defects they consider whether it is the best interest to put a child through a difficult life as well as their abilities to raise such a child.

But you can go ahead and namecall if you wish.

 

[BBond]

Like I said -- Nazi.

 

[wavshrdr]

Originally posted by: BBond
Wavshdr is probably some kid living at home with his parents complaining about people taking HIS hare earned money.

Bwahahahaha

Past your bedtime Wavshdr. Leave a tooth under your pillow and maybe the tooth fairy will leave you some more money to complain about in the morning.

Sorry wrong on all accounts. I probably have children your age.

I am not opposed to helping others. I do it all the time. BUT I want to choose where my money goes. I donate money through the church I attend. I volunteer my time to help other less fortunate than me. I work for 1/5 of my normal income to help others in areas that I feel strongly about. I don't think it is the right of the government to redistribute my wealth without any accountability. Would YOU right me a blank check to do what I WANT TO DO with it? That is in effect what you do with the government.

Unlike probably 99% of you here I have lived in many countries in the world. I probably speak more languges than any of you do. I have worked and survived in other countries. I am probably better educated than 99% of you as well. Did I come from a rich background, hell no. I went to a tiny little high school in a rural area where the town only had 700 people. Yet I graduated at the top of my class. I have seen human suffering up close and not just read about it in magazines. I have had people die in my arms from diseases. I realized that if I didn't work hard I would have no opportunities. So I worked hard and created my opportunities. I am not like some lazy a$$ professor who sits on my butt with tenure and tells the rest of the world how to do things without ever being in the workplace and actually having to produce or starve.

It is better to teach someone to fish than to just feed them. If you are going to help people don't just give them money. Teach them how to be self-sufficient. Often the best Americans are the new immigrants from other countries. They truly see the opportunities and don't whine about what they don't have. They work hard and become successful without a lot of public assistance. How many of you work 16 hour or longer days? I often work those kids of hours so that I can make sure my kids have good future and won't have to worry about where their next meal was coming from like I did sometime when I was younger. Have any of you done any volunteer work? I have for many years. I put my time and energy into other people than just myself and that is why I dislike the punitive tax situation.

Do any of you fundamentally think that the government is entitiled to more of YOUR money than you are? If so, then promptly leave for Germany or France! Your socialist utopia awaits you. You can have your 13+% unemployment and socialized medical care (and its crappy service) and maybe if you work super hard you can someday buy a house rather than rent an apartment and the list goes on. Go spend some time in a foreign country and then come back and lets chat. If I was a teenager I could understand some of your attitude toward me but alas I am not. Those years are well past me. I am far more altruistic than many of you and most importantly I am not a hypocrite!

There needs to be a balance with taxes and not just an ever escalating pattern like we currently have. There needs to be responsibility in the system and accountability at all levels. I can't just randomly raise my salary like the government can with taxes. At least when you buy a house or a car you know what you are getting for your money. What EXACTLY do YOU get for your taxes (at all levels of government)? Why cant a lot of things that are done with governmental funds be done with charity? They can but the more government controls your money the more they control you. Perhaps some of you aren't capable of taking care of yourself? Why should my money be funneled to what programs you want funded and vice versa? There needs to be a balance in government and the level of services it provides their citizens. You can't have everything you want, the price is too high. We are NOT that productive as a society.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: wavshrdr


Sorry wrong on all accounts. I probably have children your age.

If you had children my age chances are you wouldn't be around -- unless you exceeded average life expectancy by a number of years.

 

[BBond]

I thought you might be interested in this article. It differs somewhat from your views I imagine. But as the man says, the writer makes some good points.

Karl's New Manifesto

By DAVID BROOKS
Published: May 29, 2005

I was in the library reading room when suddenly a strange specter of a man appeared above me. He was a ragged fellow with a bushy beard, dressed in the clothes of another century. He clutched news clippings on class in America, and atop the pile was a manifesto in his own hand. He was gone in an instant, but Karl's manifesto on modern America remained. This is what it said:

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave, lord and serf, capitalist and proletariat, in a word oppressor and oppressed, stand in opposition to each other and carry on a constant fight. In the information age, in which knowledge is power and money, the class struggle is fought between the educated elite and the undereducated masses.

The information age elite exercises artful dominion of the means of production, the education system. The median family income of a Harvard student is $150,000. According to the Educational Testing Service, only 3 percent of freshmen at the top 146 colleges come from the poorest quarter of the population. The educated class ostentatiously offers financial aid to poor students who attend these colleges and then rigs the admission criteria to ensure that only a small, co-optable portion of them can get in.

The educated class reaps the benefits of the modern economy - seizing for itself most of the income gains of the past decades - and then ruthlessly exploits its position to ensure the continued dominance of its class.

The educated class has torn away from the family its sentimental veil and reduced it to a mere factory for the production of little meritocrats. Members of the educated elites are more and more likely to marry each other, which the experts call assortative mating, but which is really a ceaseless effort to refortify class solidarity and magnify social isolation. Children are turned into workaholic knowledge workers - trained, tutored, tested and prepped to strengthen class dominance.

The educated elites are the first elites in all of history to work longer hours per year than the exploited masses, so voracious is their greed for second homes. They congregate in exclusive communities walled in by the invisible fence of real estate prices, then congratulate themselves for sending their children to public schools. They parade their enlightened racial attitudes by supporting immigration policies that guarantee inexpensive lawn care. They send their children off to Penn, Wisconsin and Berkeley, bastions of privilege for the children of the professional class, where they are given the social and other skills to extend class hegemony.

The information society is the only society in which false consciousness is at the top. For it is an iron rule of any university that the higher the tuition and more exclusive the admissions, the more loudly the denizens profess their solidarity with the oppressed. The more they objectively serve the right, the more they articulate the views of the left.

Periodically members of this oppressor class hold mock elections. The Yale-educated scion of the Bush family may face the Yale-educated scion of the Winthrop family. They divide into Republicans and Democrats and argue over everything except the source of their power: the intellectual stratification of society achieved through the means of education.

More than the Roman emperors, more than the industrial robber barons, the malefactors of the educated class seek not only to dominate the working class, but to decimate it. For 30 years they have presided over failing schools without fundamentally transforming them. They have imposed a public morality that affords maximum sexual opportunity for themselves and guarantees maximum domestic chaos for those lower down.

In 1960 there were not big structural differences between rich and poor families. In 1960, three-quarters of poor families were headed by married couples. Now only a third are. While the rates of single parenting have barely changed for the educated elite, family structures have disintegrated for the oppressed masses.

Poor children are less likely to live with both biological parents, hence, less likely to graduate from high school, get a job and be in a position to challenge the hegemony of the privileged class. Family inequality produces income inequality from generation to generation.

Undereducated workers of the world, unite! Let the ruling educated class tremble! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win!

I don't agree with everything in Karl's manifesto, because I don't believe in incessant class struggle, but you have to admit, he makes some good points.