Reply to Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Because of the expectation that you will work to make things more equal.

If you are a privileged person, you will give up some privileges[/b].[/quote]

Bingo. No one is willing to do what needs to be done for this to happen. So no one wants to admit they are "over" privileged or that their children are and that it's not fair.

Here's our situation. We live in a 2 million house in a close in neighborhood to NYC. My husband and I make over 750k between us. Our children go to great public schools but we could easily send them to private if we wanted. They travel the world at least 4 times a year and they are growing up with private ski lessons, tennis lessons, swim lessons, and on and on. They're all under 10 and each have over 200k in college savings already. No we're not yachting around in the Mediterranean and my daughter can't grow up to be a professional equestrian. But I'm sure most people would consider them "over" privileged and would love to punish them in some way for getting things they lack.

[/quote]

I'd be really curious to hear your opinion about the US tax scale. Would you be willing to [b]revert to the 1950s scale[/b]? Why or why not? How do you feel about inheritance taxes? Should your children be able to remain INCREDIBLY privileged (how do you not realize that? SMH), and their grandchildren, too, simply because you and your husband started out on third base?[/quote]

Can we move on from this argument, AOC?

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics