Once Again The Democrats Are In The Business Of Discrimination

A recent article mentions that Democrats want to propose a tax hike of 5% for people making a million dollars or more. While this doesn't discriminate against one's background or gender, it does discriminate against one's income. This is clearly wrong in any sense. They have the robin hood mentality of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. The last thing the poor need is a handout.

Back in Old Testament times, when grapes were harvested, for example, the grapes that fell on the floor that the farmer didn't want were not collected and given to the poor. They were left there for the poor to go and collect. This was done so that the poor feel like they worked for their keep. The government didn't have to take any grapes from the farmer, nor did they have to give anything to the poor.

Unfortunately, all these handouts have spoiled everyone give people a sense of entitlement rather than the drive to want to work. We've cultured a lazy society not wanting to work. Yes, the Democrats want to take that 5% to use for being able to hire more people but no this is not the way to go about things. Why should we form brackets to where someone making just under a million dollars a year dreads receiving a raise to their salary. Why should they who have worked hard for their income have to pay to give a handout to those unwilling to give it their best effort?

Here is a superior way to go about things. First, we must cut on taxes by shrinking the size of the government. We have a large, constipated, government which operates very inefficiently–sort of like Microsoft. We need a smaller, government which operates very efficiently by eliminating bottlenecks and inappropriate regulations–sort of like Apple. Second, we must shrink the size of the IRS by eliminating the need for most citizens to have to file for taxes each year. The simple way to do it is to charge the same fixed percentage of everyone's paycheck, interest, profit from stock sales, at the time the paycheck, interest, or profit is given. This can only be done if all Americans were on the same tax bracket, which in turn would cut on a lot of the IRS administrative costs and reduce our tax rate. Then people are paying less taxes and there is no need for itemization.

As far as the poor go however, they should be the ones who have to file for taxes each year if they make below a salary deeming them below the poverty line. In doing so, only the poor who give the effort to file their taxes are the one who get a refund so it doesn't feel like a handout. There would be no need to go out an police people who don't file their taxes either since not getting a refund is their penalty for being lazy.

This is the simple way to correct the tax code to provide more income for households regardless of their salaries as well as to let the poor get a little extra cash without having a sense of entitlement for being poor. Moreover, since everyone hates filling taxes it will inspire the poor to strive to get out from under the poverty line. This is a way to reduce the number of poor in the nation without increasing everyone's taxes–which takes more money from use causing us to be poor as well.

Our Bigot Government

The Government is an organization which legislates discrimination. They require employers to request demographic information such as gender and race and claim that it does not affect whether or not a person gets hired. They are full of Bovine Dung. If it does not affect whether or not a person gets hired then why do they insist on affirmative action? While companies claim that it does not affect their being hired, they should not pursue an individual who refuses to disclose but they do if they're interested in a person and want to satisfy their affirmative action obligations imposed on them by the government.

It all started with the idiot liberals yapping away after the abolition of slavery. White northerners moved down south to set up schools to educate the newly emancipated folk. The liberals complained at why blacks were not educating blacks and forced legislation mandating a certain number of black teachers to coincide with the ratio of whites to blacks in this nation. If they had just come off the plantations and there weren't enough educated black people to teach black children, then white folk had to be the ones teaching them. But no, this can't happen if we are to have equality, according to liberals. That is when unqualified teachers appeared on the scene.

This scenario got worse during the 1950's in an attempt to "desegregate" the nation. They forced students to go to schools in their local areas that parents who cared for the welfare of their children now had to send them to the local substandard school to be in class with students who didn't want to learn rather than be able to go across town to a school with higher standards and better disciplined classmates. Now even children with a high aptitude for learning are unable to. Dunbar High School in Washington, DC was a black school that produced many prominent blacks that this nation saw before the 1960's. They maintained high standards and brought in highly qualified teachers. Desegregation resulted in bringing in the local students that didn't want to learn resulting in capable teachers not wanting to teach there, that the school eventually met it's demise.

Here's what Thomas Sowell has to say regarding this matter in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals: "Ironically, black high schools in Washington today have many of the so-called "prerequisites" for good education that never existed during the heyday of Dunbar High School–and yet the educational results are abysmal". While it is their intention to help lower income households progress, the liberals, with their activist mindset, do everything with haste. They don't consider the ramifications of expediting social equality by forcing schools to hire unqualified persons to balance out the demographics.

Moreover, different cultural groups deviate to different professions. I have noticed that many students from Asian countries who don't speak English well tend to go into professions which deal more with math and less with grammar. Some cultures breed hardworking people while education is not emphasized in other cultures. To force companies to hire a certain number of minorities is wrong and leads to discrimination, rather than narrowing the gap between the different cultural groups, by creating a distinction between the different groups.