So what if they catch up?
You don't care about prosperity or American exceptionalism? Do you want your children to be better off than you? Do you care about anything?
Here is a choice. Take your pick:
A. Stagnation for the middle class.
B. Strong growth for the middle class.
What is your preference?
When you're talking about taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor....there should be a reason to do so.
When did I talk about this? What post? Where did I say that I support socialism?
"Fair" is not a reason...."need" would be.
My reason is "Better." If we can make America better why not do so? The way income is being distributed is morally wrong and is keeping the middle class from achieving its potential. We can be doing better.
Americans as a whole can support themselves.
Sure most of us can, but so can Mexico. Mere survival is easy, actually being the best takes work and fair laws.
At some point, even the leftest of ideologues need to realize that there is a difference between need and want.
If "need" is all that is important than there is no need to ensure that we stay a first world country because we can obtain our needs by being a second world country. I want America to have both needs and wants. I want America to be the most technologically advanced, the most prosperous nation in the world with both the most of what we need and want.
You guys aren't pissed that the poor have it bad....you're pissed that some don't have it bad. If you're taking money from those that have "too much" and giving it to those that have less simply for the sake of doing it....you're (society) committing theft.
Is this a response to someone else? I never mentioned taking money away from people and giving it to the poor. Taking money away from the successful and using it to fuel a welfare state is a really bad idea and won't help anybody. Just take a look at Europe.
The American condition is actually better than in most other places in the world. You guys need to put away the torches and pitch forks and try to figure out how to earn your way to the 1% rather than trying to get the govt to give their money to you.
Again, I don't support the welfare state. I actually support completely scrapping welfare and severely cutting social security.
So your solution to all this is for everyone to be in the 1%. The problem is that only a limited number of career fields allow people to do this. If everyone tried to be a doctor for example, there would be too many doctors and the demand for every individual doctor would fall. This would greatly reduce earning for doctors and create high unemployment for them making the medical field no longer a route to the 1%.
If everyone tried to create a small business there would be too many small businesses and the free market would weed out most of them.
The reality is that there are a limited number of seats for executives, doctors, or small business owners, and there will always be a need for janitors, engineers, nurses, and teachers. It is great to encourage people to try to achieve more but the hard reality is that not everyone is going to be rich. So we should make sure that the middle class and the poor are treated fairly because most Americans are going to fall into these groups no matter what.