A Look at Wealth Distribution in the United States
The Poverty Manifesto
Supporting Argument
The current population in the United States is 295,582,382 and of those 34,569,951 are in poverty, which is approximately 12% of the population. The top ten richest Americans wealth adds up to more than 1 trillion dollars and Bill Gates alone has 48 billion dollars. Compare this to the average household income of $43,527 in the United States in 2003. The poverty rate has been increasing over the last few years by about one million people. The problem is not getting any better and if some measures are not taken soon then this problem will become irreversible. Also it is a known fact that most crimes occur in low income areas. With the elimination of the upper class and lower class crime would drastically decreased since everyone would have the same amount of money.
Reasonable Argument
The first step to my solution would be to take all the money in the entire nation that I under control by the citizens (not the government) and equally split it up so everyone will have the same amount of money. This would eliminate the upper and lower class and make everyone middle class and by doing this poverty will become a thing of the past. The next step would be giving everyone the same income per year. This would be figured by taking the income of everyone from last year and dividing it by the population. If we were to take the average income of the country and multiply by the number of residents that would be $11,560,004,341,314 and then if we divided that by the population we would get $39,109.25 per person per year. This is a very rough estimate since it only uses the average income per person and the actual would be much higher. By taking these two steps everyone would have the same amount of money and no one would be poor or rich any more. This may be hard since some people do not want to give up their money but they would be forced to since this is for the better of everyone. Also this would stop rich people from taking advantage of the poor people since there would not be poor or rich people.
"Income 2003." http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income03.html.
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6 Comments
Post a CommentIf everyone makes the same amount of money then I will quit my job and collect my money anyway.
There will be a loss of productivity but Oh Well!. The government will have to force me to work thereby introducing a slave state and a total loss of freedom. Socialism and Communism are intrinsically evil because they kill individual initiative and ultimately lead to a totalitarian police state.
Perhaps it would behoove you to put your writing career on hold for a while and get a real job and try to raise a family. You will see the error of your ways soon enough.
This was already tried. It was called communism
Wow, this is by far one of the most naive publications I've ever read. Are you 14? You would do well to do a lot more reading before imagining that you have something useful to say.
(I ran out of room)
Also as I said before, just like there is a point when people are too wealthy to want to work, there is also a point where are too poor to want to work. Events in our history such as The French Revolution, The German rise of fascism and events in our own country such as strikes and riots against buisness owners. So History Student, where do we draw the line? I would agree with the creator of this post that things are getting too out of hand, 10% of our nations population controls about 85% of our nation's wealth. That to me is too out of proportion. I would be willing to stand on side with a minimum of say 35% of our nation's country controling about 70% of our nation's wealth. Why is this better, because a lesser gap in distribution can give the population control of someone if they become to greedy with the power of wealth. However there is still a big enough gap to keep people working toward their goals.
You don't have to agree, but you should hear both sides
Well, to what point does it do that? When do you get to the point where people don't want to work anymore and where is the points balanced with people being too poor that they reject the idea of work and accept the idea of seizure and revolution. You see, many college students come to this conclusion that free market capitalism is the one and only way to run a government, but you are forgetting a couple things.
First of all, there are other ways to motivate people to work other than money alone. People also work for sense of identity and sense of community, many people meet their friends through their job. And many of them come to work looking forward to meeting those friends. Also, recogize that leftist theories are not about just giving everyone equal rights, it is about giving all working people equal rights, so if a citizen is not doing any kind of work to help their society, then the government doesn't have to benefit them if they don't do their fair share of work.
You are a moron. If you do this, removing the incentive for people to work, the national income will fall from $11,560,004,341,314 to about eleven cents. Then you can divide that up equally as well.
Please read your history books. Been there, done that - it didn't work so well.