Should People Be Required To Have A Lower Class

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Helping those who are less fortunate should always be a moral obligation, whether it be buying someone a pair of shoes who couldn't afford any, to people of higher class giving a certain amount of their money to the government, which then is divided between the lower class with payments such as food stamps. This has been an issue for the U.S. for many years now and of course it’s not normal for people to be fond of the idea of giving away their money to people who didn't work for it but what most people don’t understand is that 5 to 10 percent of their income isn't going to push them down to a lower class, they’ll stay where they are and help others in the meantime. People will fight against this obligation because our humanity has never been without those who are selfish, greedy, and stingy, it has been amongst us since we were created. There will always be that defense that people of lower class don’t deserve the money because nothing productive is being done with it, which is true, there is no denying that, but what seems to be forgotten is that percentage of lower class who actually need …show more content…

Those who are less fortune don’t have options, they do what they have to do in order to get by which seems unfair because not everyone is given the equal opportunity to be successful. We were not all born the same and we did not all have the same opportunities but that’s just the way things are, there is no changing that, the only thing that can be altered is that fact that people who are fortunate should have the moral obligation to help those who are less fortunate. For example, if someone was born into a family of engineers and doctors and has the highest scale of academic quality that money can afford just waiting for them, then what’s so wrong about helping someone who was born into poverty and an underprivileged academic

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