The Greens wealth tax

[Lilith7]

Okay. So how do we make a system where the poorest can afford to put a safe healthy roof over their heads and feed their children? Bearing in mind that for the vast majority of the population disaster in the form of a complete lifestyle switcheroo is only a massive flood (thanks climate change that we do nothing about), a personal tragedy, a job loss, or a dishonest action by someone else - away. I'm sure you have clients who experienced that change of fortune. There but for the grace of fortune go we, so it is in ALL our interests to review the system we operate under and make it more equitable.

If we are not to share the wealth more equitably, how do we do it?

Its always interesting that when this subject is discussed, somehow there are suddenly NO 'rich people' at all, anywhere.  Just hardworking business owners who've slaved away for years to do well. At least according to them.


The reality is that we need to end poverty, or get as close to that as we possibly can. And as swiftly as we can, because if we continue going down this road we really won't enjoy the consequences of that.

A small dose of reality. 

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/wp-content/up...en-key.jpg




"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)




https://www.psychologicalscience.org/new...ggest.html


"Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different,
The rich are different - & not in a good way

Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.
“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.”



In other words, rich people are more likely to think about themselves. “They think that economic success and political outcomes, and personal outcomes, have to do with individual behavior, a good work ethic,” said Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Because the rich gloss over the ways family connections, money and education helped, they come to denigrate the role of government and vigorously oppose taxes to fund it."