Perspective impacted this particular social justice because it seems as if the wealthy is the ones that are being tortured, and mistreated. In other words, their making it seem as if they are, but it's absolutely not true. Their making it seem as if the people are trying to negatively take away all their money, but in reality it's the other way around. The rich are trying to take away from the poor, by trying to decrease the amount of taxes given to them. As a result, they will pay fewer taxes. They have more than enough finances to pay the amount of taxes that the government wants. However, they pay government officials to decrease their taxes, which ultimately protect them from the increase on taxes. They just want to dehumanize the poor people, which is degrading, and it's unfair, that many people have to …show more content…
suffer because of this injustice. The increase taxation on the poor is a problem, because of the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
Many poor and middle classes can’t afford to take care of their families because of the increase taxation on themselves and their family. They have to suffer because of wealthy people's’ decisions. Also, the wealthy have enough money to pay more taxes than the normal tax payer. It's affecting everyone. The taxation is hurting the poor financially. As a result, their communities are being affected negatively because of the increasing amount of poor people, which is ridiculous and breathtaking.
One person may see that the increase taxation on the poor and the decrease taxes on the wealthy is not an issue because the wealthy pay a lot of taxes already. However, many people don’t realize the fact that, yes, the wealthy are paying a lot of taxes because they make more money, but they can afford to pay more. Recently, in a CNN article, more than forty millionaires want their taxes to increase, which proves the fact that the wealthy have plenty of money to give back to the community. In addition, their just going to keep getting wealthier and wealthier by the
day. My perspective is different from theirs, because of the fact we both have different opinions on this particular topic. They think that it's okay to tax the poor more, and I think that it's unlawful to increase taxes on the poor. Everyone’s perspective is different because everyone comes from different walks of life. A person that came from a wealthy household may believe that the wealthy is paying all they could, and someone who came from a very poor household may perceive the fact that the wealthy is taking away from the poor. These things influence one’s decisions and opinions on this particular injustice topic. This has reinforced my perspective on this injustice tremendously. To see the negative outweigh the good, has made my perspective on this injustice alter. I now believe that this injustice is absolutely unfair, and I stand affirmative into removing this injustice from the community in which we live in. This has reinforced my perspective because of the tremendous increase in poor people globally. I ultimately don’t want poor people to suffer, and to see them suffer, has impacted me mentally, and emotionally. I can’t believe the growing gap between the rich and the poor. In addition, this is beneficial to everyone as a whole. I know that this will ultimately help everyone in the long run, which reinforces my perspective. If I know that this will be beneficial, then I know that this can ultimately help me continue to advocate for change. I honestly believe that I deserve an Advance on this injustice project. I have worked very hard, continuously, everyday, trying to prepare and write down my ideas and topics. I have been constantly making sure that this project will get done on time and correctly. I have spent a numerous amount of time, trying to give this project my very best work. As a result, I have continued to put my time, patience, and ideas for this project, to make it into one of the best posters I have done in my educational career. Every day, I have made sure that this project will be counted as one of the best projects. Also, I have really understood the importance of many situations within the community. I have not only reached my goal of achieving a great grade, but also the importance of advocating for what’s right in my community. These topics are very fundamental, and they need to be acted on accordingly. For those reasons, I truly believe that, I do, in fact, deserve an Advance on this project, given that I worked hard, and I understood the meaning of this whole injustice project.
Many of my thoughts throughout ethics have been towards the utilitarian side. This is where I would differ from that view. If I were to go by the utilitarian view it would be to tax the rich more than anyone. This money would then go to the poor where the money could be used up instead of sitting in a bank account. The utilitarian believes you do whatever it takes to make the most possible people happy. If you took the top five percent in America and taxed them more, then gave it to the bottom thirty percent, you have now helped more people then you did not help.
Inside of this video, this guy really targets an issue nobody has really been presented. He shows charts that talk about how we Americans think our wealth is distributed. We think distribution is doing alright. Americans think that the bottom 40% is getting a bit of money. They also believe that the middle class is doing reasonably well. Unfortunately, that is not the case. In the video, he breaks it down a little bit getter. He shows a graph that shows how money is actually being distributed. The poorest of poor don 't even register on the poverty line. The middle class is barely making it. And then there is this huge difference between "the rich" and the poor. It is proven that the 1% of America has 40% of the entire nation 's wealth ("Wealth Inequality in America."). The bottom 80% of America only share 7% of the nation 's wealth among themselves. The top 1% has 50% of the stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The bottom 50% of Americans only own 0.5% ("Wealth Inequality in America."). The poor is not just getting by but they are scraping and fighting to get by. Now that it is clear that there is a lot of poor people in America, it is important to figure out how to fix
This shows how the government could be easily bought and cause unjust things to the people. Capitalism causes for the gap between the social classes to further widen. Only we can come together to overcome these
The manifest of this cartoon that the wealthy man is taking advantage of the middle and lower class people. He is doing this by taking half of the income and leaving the lower and middle class with half as well but they have to equally distribute it amongst each other. He is also calling them greedy, when in fact he is the one that is being greedy because he gets half while the others get a whole lot less because they have to equally share it. In the book, Social Problems: An Introduction to Critical Constructionism, Robert Henier states that there was a substantial expansion in the economy but the ones who benefited the most out of this were the upper class. In addition, the wealthy man is wearing a tie which could mean he is a CEO of a company. With this being said, this would be the latent content because it also states that Congress has cut the tax rate for the wealthiest taxpayers by more than half and instead of paying taxes they actually receive money back as a tax benefit (Heiner, 2013). In addition, wealthy people pay similar or lower rates of tax than lower and middle class people (Heiner, 2013). This means that wealthy people and companies are getting to keep all their profits plus a tax benefit, while the middle and lower class owe the government tax money at the end of each year. The underlying message is that the
They are calling for increased governmental regulation so that the lower quintile Americans can gain some equality (Cesca). I wonder who is actually at fault? Is it actually this top one percent who have been hurting us or some other factor? Maybe the government has created the problem? A good way to approach it is to take a step back and look at the philosophy of economics.
Income inequality has affected American citizens ever since the American Dream came to existence. The American Dream is centered around the concept of working hard and earning enough money to support a family, own a home, send children to college, and invest for retirement. Economic gains in income are one of the only possible ways to achieve enough wealth to fulfill the dream. Unfortunately, many people cannot achieve this dream due to low income. Income inequality refers to the uneven distribution of income and wealth between the social classes of American citizens. The United States has often experienced a rise in inequality as the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, increasing the unstable gap between the two classes. The income gap in America has been increasing steadily since the late 1970’s, and has now reached historic highs not seen since the 1920’s (Desilver). UC Berkeley economics professor, Emmanuel Saez conducted extensive research on past and present income inequality statistics and published them in his report “Striking it Richer.” Saez claims that changes in technology, tax policies, labor unions, corporate benefits, and social norms have caused income inequality. He stands to advocate a change in American economic policies that will help close this inequality gap and considers institutional and tax reforms that should be developed to counter it. Although Saez’s provides legitimate causes of income inequality, I highly disagree with the thought of making changes to end income inequality. In any diverse economic environment, income inequality will exist due to the rise of some economically successful people and the further development of factors that push people into poverty. I believe income inequality e...
These wealthy self made millionaires have worked here vigorously to arrive at this point with years and years of work and dedication. Their money shouldn't be filched away by malicious income taxes and should be viewed that in order to promote in class, hard work and effort have to be put in. These self made millionaires can also spend more than the average person. Individuals that are wealthy can go and spend abundant amounts of cash on what they desire with no questioning. Their tax rates shouldn't be surged up, if it will benefit the United States by large purchases that will be giving back to the
But when truly considering it, if taxes were raised on the rich it would minimize the large inequality gap without changing or impacting job growth or economic recovery (Fieldhouse). Also, history proves that the rich are hardly affected by tax raises because in the 1960’s, the top income rate was 90% where the economy was largely successful and the top 1% were not hurt by this either (Blodget). Furthermore, modern day tax rates are extremely low compared to the past rates, including times of an economic boom (Blodget). Those who wish to keep taxes at their current rates are the ones who benefit from it as they wish to keep all the money for themselves instead of using their taxes to help out the poor and help them gain the incentive and skills in order to have a sufficient
Controversy will always follow humans where ever we go. Humans have argued over many issues for centuries, often times with no conclusion or “correct” answer ever in sight. One common issue that has been debated since the early 1900s is whether or not the more wealthy individuals in a society should be taxed more heavily than their poorer counterparts. Many have argued over the pros and cons of the taxation of richer people, but when one looks at it objectively, the pros far outweigh the cons. Not only do the pros outweigh the cons, but a question one must ask oneself is whether or not prosperous people really need that extra money? Richer people should be taxed higher because it is better for the economy, social classes will become more even, and the wealthy owe it to the society that helped raise them to become successful.
The American deficit grows every day, along with the wealth divide between the wealthiest and poorest Americans. The nation’s financial standing is worsening by the second, and something must be done to improve it. The richest Americans are only getting richer in this time of economic crisis, and tax increases for the wealthy are a viable way to more equally distribute wealth throughout the lower classes in the United States. It may be true that some of the wealthiest citizens have earned their money, but action should be taken to help the struggling majority of the country instead of the privileged few. The United States has a responsibility to give the lower classes an opportunity to rise out of poverty, and if the lower class continues to grow like it is now, this nation could have larger problems to deal with in the future.
Increase in price of consumer goods is creating a gap between the two classes. In long run this may lead to a big problem for government as inequality between the two classes. At that time the Government will have to levy more taxes on the goods and services so that it can cope up with such sort of inequality. But it is not an easy task to levy more taxes on incomes. This type of strategies can create a political and economic uncertainty. Political uncertainty can be due to rude attitude of taxpayers against the Govt. who levy more taxes on their incomes and if we see the concept of more tax with economic point of view, more taxes leads to less production and the unemployment in that economy. It reduces the export of goods and services and again Government may be in a problem of increase balance of payment deficit. An increase in tax tends to cut in production quantity and leave an adverse effect on producers’ as well as consumers’ pocket. If it happens, he starts to reduce his expenditure which again leads to reduction in production of goods and services due to this unemployment takes place in the economy and a cause and effect cycle generates between increase in CPI and decrease in
If income inequality continues to grow, the economy will break down. For example, if the housing price continues to rise because of the rich people, poor people will not have a place to live since they cannot afford to buy these expensive houses. When this happens, it will create another housing bubble because the houses are not worth buying, which means the market value of the house exceeds the house’s value; therefore, nobody will buy the house including the riches since they already have houses to live. Moreover, poor people do not believe they can get access to wealth because they cannot afford anything, and they cannot afford the tuition fees for a good education, which is the traditional route to success.
...tribute to society and live life freely. As a solution to wealth disparity, taxes can be used to redistribute income to the poor and use the tax money to fund many different programs, such as some that target poverty and inequality. Improving public schools by unifying them is another solution to wealth disparity. By closing private schools and fully invest in public schools, everyone can receive an education that is equally distributed. By providing equal opportunities for education and taxes being used to redistribute income to the poor will decrease income inequality. In the long run, helping the poor will be beneficial and has a big possibility to end poverty as well. In conclusion, wealth disparity makes inequality a big problem to the fullest extent to social stability in American society because it discriminates against the poor, while it privileges the rich.
... rising inflation rate, injustice (because of status), expensive schooling has pushed many individuals as well as families down from a higher level to a lower one. “Justice delayed is justice denied” and our law enforcement organizations are strictly following this very famous quote which has created another social class/ group of those who can afford justice and those who cannot. Economic fluctuations including 0-4% inflation rate in developed countries and up to 5% to 20%in developing countries, falling exchange value of currencies and sky touching prices of goods and services has compelled millions of people to the brink of poverty and destitution. Mere attention is given to those who form the major part of our country’s population and this is causing severe distress and pain for the labor class as well as the middle class to breathe in such aura of restlessness.
consumed with the idea of degregating the poor so they can achieve success, even if it