Taxing People Who Are Successful To Fund People Who Are Not

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Personal success depends on a lot of things--opportunities, ambition, education, self-discipline, and a willingness to work.  I am sure there are other factors, but to me, those are the major ones.  Anyway, America was founded on the idea that success in this country was available to anyone who was willing to work for it.  Aside from the numerous government regulations that complicate starting a new business, success is still available to anyone with the ambition, drive and perseverance to pursue it.  However, somewhere along the line, the idea has crept in that success should be punished in order to improve the financial situations of those who are not willing to work for it.  I am a firm believer in charity, but I think that we have traded charity for dependency and enabling.  Unfortunately, there is a recent poll to confirm that.

Yesterday Gallop reported the results of one of their recent polls.  According to the Gallop polling data, 47 percent of Americans believe that the wealth in the United States should be redistributed by heavily taxing the rich.  This is a very interesting number when you consider that according to Smart Money, in 2009 an estimated 47% of U. S. households did not pay any federal income tax.

The poll results showed a difference in philosophy between the parties on the redistribution of wealth--Democrats were 71 percent for redistribution, Republicans were 69 percent against.

If you follow the link to the Gallop website, you can see all of the questions asked in the poll and how the results broke down.  The thing that is of concern to me in this poll is that there is a significant segment of our population that would rather take something from someone else than earn it themselves.  That is not a good sign for the future of America.

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