Originally Posted by hkbajwa

well gentlemen i'm gonna add my two cents..

WELFARE STATE

It works dude.. it really does. Tell the top 5% earners in the US to pay an extra 10% in tax.. will that affect anything other than the fact that these people will get richer at a lesser rate?

Use this money to subsidize minimum wage. Or spend the money on education.. or on a million other things that the US can't "afford".

Alternatively buy a few weapons less for the army. Or de-commission a nuke or two. These are all billion dollar costs. Are they more important than people having a decent wage? Nobody even comes CLOSE to america's military strength.. how much stronger does it need to be??