Consider this:
• The top 1% of wage earners in this country pay over 33% of the total income tax collected;
• The top 5% pays over 53%;
• The top 10% pays about 65%;
• The top 25% pays about 83%, and;
• The top 50% pays 96% of the total income tax collected, leaving the bottom 50% to pick up the remaining 4%.
Next, consider what these tax dollars go to. A good portion goes to national security and the military, which benefits everyone equally, but another very large portion goes to entitlements, such as welfare and a multitude of other socialist programs. Now think about how disproportionate the costs (taxes) versus the benefits (entitlements) are. Seriously, how many multi-millionaires do you know who are on welfare?The Democrats will have you believe that taxing the rich more than the poor will ultimately benefit society, because the lower class will have more money. But think about it, when you start taxing the rich more, they will start to find tax shelters for their money, in an attempt to preserve the wealth that they have created for themselves. When their money gets tied up in these tax shelters, their level of investments decrease.

So what does this mean? Well, a few things.

First, a decrease in investments by wealthy investors means that they won’t receive any income from those investments. No income means no additional money to be taxed.

Secondly, when wealthy investors are less willing to invest in new companies, those companies usually will end up failing. Failing companies means lost jobs, which in turn means lost wages, ultimately leading to lost taxable income.

The point here is that we don’t want the wealthy to tie their money up in tax shelters. We want them to invest and buy things. We want them to buy their yachts, their luxury cars, their big houses and fancy clothes, because the production of those items requires the labor of less wealthy people. Without wealthy people buying these things, no one would be able to have a job. It’s the only way to keep the economy going.

Trust me, I’d love it if everyone in this country were wealthy, and never had to worry about money, but in a capitalistic society like ours, it just can’t happen. The wealthy will always depend on the lower classes for the products they produce, and the lower classes will always depend on the rich to buy their products. When the rich stop buying, the lower classes will always suffer.

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The American Dream, as far as my research can tell, is a phrase first coined by James Truslow Adams in his book “Epic of America.” In his book he states “The American Dream is that dream of a land…with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” Even before Adams wrote this however, our Founding Fathers outlined the idea of an American Dream in the Declaration of Independence by writing “…that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”In Communist, or Socialist countries, the notion of this type of dream is unheard of, because in reality one’s ability is not praised in the same manner that it is in the American Dream. In those settings, if one person succeeds, they are succeeding for the entire community, not just themselves. This is unfortunate however, because it doesn’t encourage innovation or motivation for success, since the ones who succeed won’t reap the benefits anymore than their neighbors do.

So what does this have to do with the American Dream? There are many socialist laws in America that make it virtually impossible to live the American Dream, as was defined in “Epic of America” to its fullest extent. We think of this country as being such a great country where everyone is free, but in actuality we’re not. Social Security, Welfare and the multitude of other entitlement programs the government hands out goes against everything the American Dream stands for. How is one supposed to be “recognized by others for what they are” if they keep receiving government entitlements? Unless, of course they want to be recognized for being thieves or beggars, which I don’t think is what they were looking for.

U.S. tax laws are another socialistic way of “spreading the wealth” causing the rich to pay more than their fair share, and the poor to pay less. When it comes to be April 15th however, no one seems to notice too much because we pay our taxes on a pay as you earn basis, so most, if not all of our taxes are taken out before they’re even due, leaving us oblivious to the fact that the government has had the use of our money all year long. If we ever get the opportunity to keep what’s ours until April 15th, the government would never see a penny, because people would find it very difficult to fork over thousands of dollars in taxes all at once (a person who had taxable income of $144,500 last year would have to pay a total of $35,256 in taxes). With ridiculous amounts of our income being paid to the government, ridiculous amounts of unnecessary (and often unconstitutional) government programs begin to pop up, which in turn causes the government to want more and more of our hard earned money to fund these programs.

If all men truly are created equal, what happened between the time of their creation and the time they started receiving unearned government paychecks, or funding government programs? Our “Robin Hood” government seems to have taken away the equality, and forced the rich to fund the poor.

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