I hear all this, you know, Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
-Elizabeth Warren
Total horseshit and so easy to pick apart.
Roads - What if goods are transported by companies like Fed Ex, UPS and the like, they pay for use of the roads and put those costs into the prices they charge the guy with the factory. Also, the guy with the factory paid his share towards the roads the same way the rest of us do, the embedded taxes in gasoline that he bought for his personal cars and for the businesses vehicles... so he is paid if full, no excuse for extra taxes here.
Police/Fire Dept - Unless he somehow made use of these services beyond what any law abiding citizen that simply exists does, the owner of the factory paid his share in the state and local taxes as well as property taxes and other fees. Unless you're going to assert that because he owns a business, he is more of a drain on the cops and firefighters that never had to respond to a call from him? If the owner didn't call the police or the fire department, they were free to do exactly what they were going to be doing anyways...patroling and fighting crime...he made no more use of that service than I did. No excuse for extra taxes here either.
Educated employees - So the government takes control of education, against the wishes of many... so people who hire workers that are products of a public education (which is just about everyone) owe extra because the government insisted on doing something that would have been done by the private sector anyways. That's quite a scam you got going on there. Using the same logic, I guess once the factory owner "EDUCATES" the employee and gives him a marketable skill through in house training, that employer is forever due a portion of his future earnings, after all they paid to train him. No? Hmmm, guess that kills that argument as well.
The fact is employers pay for every bit of the public domain that they use already, MORE than their fair share. The Progressives could care less about anything except paying for their suicidal social engineering. It is class warfare and makes you look like slobbering cretins. The very fact that so many of your fellow citizens, who are not well-off, would defend the wealthy against your Un-American selective taxation on nothing more than principle, should let you know you're in the wrong. There should be a flat tax rate with a standardized cost of living deduction for every citizen.
