(These figures are not current but used as an illustration of a worldwide principle.)
So. Just how does a typical socialist react to all this? - The answer is to 'raise taxes for the wealthy'. (Admittedly, you have to have the money first to pay huge amounts of tax but the imbalance of the thinking shows clearly through.) Let us not forget that the people paying the taxes here are also paying out a great deal more in indirect taxation also. The third diagram will also include a number of 'wage slaves' but the first two are largely made up of entrepreneurs, 'movers and shakers', investors and those who make society function. These are the people who MAKE the money so there can be loadsa taxes for social use. Why can socialists not grasp a basic economic principle? Why is 'hitting the wealthy' more important than making a country work efficiently. Such a skewed moral base!
