One common misconception many Americans have is that the rich in our society, a whole 1 percent of the population, is the reason for the economic downfall and recession we're currently in. A solution many people toss around is taxing the rich more than the middle and lower classes.
While this in theory would make America more socially equal, it wouldn't really solve the differences in monetary distribution because there is no guarantee that the money collected would be given to the more deserving middle class. More likely it would be used to fund things like Medicare and our failing school systems.
The author of this article clearly thinks that the government is incompetent, and that it should learn to do more with less, rather than "less with more" as he believes we Americans have become accustomed to do things. I agree with this author on many levels. There are many things I think our government could be doing to help with rises costs and taxes, which it isn't. If they keep this up, there isn't going to be much of a country to govern soon.
What Tax Dollars Can't Buy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/douthat-what-tax-dollars-cant-buy.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
What rhetorical strategies does the author use to get you to think that way?
ReplyDeleteMy dad is always talking about this because he is in the mortgage business. I agree that taxing the rich will bring in more money, but not give it to necessarily all of the right places.
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