that pretty much sums up the "justification" for your envy of the rich
go to waist-does that mean the rich are eating too much rich foods?
Your line about the WAIST was clever. :lol:
as to the charge of ENVY
The whole charge of ENVY has been thoroughly trashed and disposed of. It is intended as a defense mechanism to make the user feel both superior to those it is being wielded against and provide them with an all purpose excuse that defies actual examination or substantiation. It is similar to the girl with hurt feelings claiming that "you hate me because I'm beautiful" in that it is a self given compliment disguised in self pity intended to make the person appear as an injured party and look good at the same time. The implication of this silly ENVY charge is that we only want what the rich have. It falsely pretends that we are simply wallowing in our own unhappiness that we are not rich, we are not wealthy, we do not have all the goodies an toys that the blessed of the earth have.
Nothing could be further from reality and nothing could be further from the truth.
Every argument I read on this site demanding that the rich pay more in taxation has nothing to do with what people personally want for themselves. It has everything to do with what they believe a just and fair governmental system should build in the way of a rational and sustainable tax policy for over a society of over 300 million people. It has everything to do with the concern about the increasingly growing gap between income classes in America.
As yourself this question - if the right can no longer play the ENVY card as a knee jerk reflex defense mechanism what else do they have left?
Answer: they will have to deal with the specific realities of tax proposals and they end up losing on those specifics. They will have to defend thirty years of tax cuts on the wealthy and they will lose on that record. They will have to defend corporate tax rates which appear healthy on paper but in reality are so riddled with holes that many corporations end up paying little or even nothing and that does fly very well with Americans. They will have to defend tax rates which see average workers end up paying their total tax burden almost at the same levels that the wealthy pay when all taxation is considered to all levels of government and that reality ends up making them look bad. They will have to defend statistics that show the rich getting richer by leaps and bounds and the rest of society is either stagnant or actually slipping backwards and losing ground and that is something they do not want to publicize.
And those are losing issues for them.
So instead, we get this all purpose, easy to use, no actual analysis required charge of ENVY applied when all else fails or is simply inadequate in an actual debate or argument.
Each time it is raised, it should be exposed and dealt with it for what it is.
Each time it is raised, we all should join in and trash it, smash it and let it crash to the ground.