Kia-ora
A liveable income should be a human right.
We accept that someone can inherit unearned millions, but we do not
accept that someone else should inherit enough, from our society, to
live on, as of right.
Who actually has the culture of unearned entitlement?
The Koch’s, Romney’s, Bennets, Shipley and Keys getting thousands a day for contributing very little.
Not a teenager who has been struggling unsuccessfully to find work for two years and is expected to live on $130 a week.
The days of constant growth and full employment are gone.
We can produce enough for everyone to live in comfort in NZ with fraction of our present activity/employment.
I do not have the figures for New Zealand, but, rather than a more
equal distribution of income making everyone poorer, if the USA’s
current production was shared equally, every family in the States would have
an income of around 180k annually.
The right wing idea that a more equal distribution of income means equality in misery, is an obvious fallacy.
A surgeon, teacher or entrepreneur should earn more
than an unqualified cleaner, but by cutting extreme wealth there is plenty of room to
eradicate poverty in New Zealand. Or the US.
No one except for some rare exceptional entrepreneurs, “earns” millions.
Note that in both the USA and New Zealand when they were at their most prosperous the top progressive tax rate was much higher and inequalities in wealth much lower than they are now.
Trickle down does not work. http://kjt-kt.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/blog-post.html
Not even "rare exceptional entrepreneurs" does enough to earn millions per year as an individual because even the "rare exceptional entrepreneurs" need a massive amount of support and that support should be paid extra as well.
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