No matter HOW much money a person makes, it is NOT right to feel you can dig a good chunk of it out of their pocket, because they can afford it.
Yes, it is fair. The richest people in this country get to enjoy things like going on vacation, driving modern, reliable cars, living in warm roomy houses, having access to plentiful amounts of nutritious foods, nearly unlimited amounts of media, healthcare, long term investments, new clothes, home heating, medication, and so on.
Many of of take these things for granted. I know I definately do--last night I had a big dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, went home to install a $120 software package that I bought just for fun, and then later crawled into my nice warm bed. Last night I did not think of people less fortunate than me.
When I see posts like yours though I get kind of pissed off. How can you be so selfish that you think that it's unfair that you pay more taxes even though all of your life's wants and needs are seen to? Be serious! We have obligations to society, not just our own pocketbook. Part of that means that we give up a few extra dollars that we would have sunk into entertainment centers or computer upgrades and instead make sure that people who lack 'the essentials' have a decent quality of living.
That means medicare, public assistance, housing, and education. It means trying to give other people in our society at least the minimum amounts of those things we have in abundance.
I don't think that we should evenly redistribute all of the wealth, but we should make sure that every member of our society can access the minimum
essentials in life.
A process of software development which introduces arbitrary unplanned features called bugs into the source code. The bugs are delivered contained within the context of an application. The behaviour of a bug may cause crashes and loss of data, or some other useful task.
The brilliant aspect of this patent is how many jobs will be created because of it.
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Yes, it is fair. The richest people in this country get to enjoy things like going on vacation, driving modern, reliable cars, living in warm roomy houses, having access to plentiful amounts of nutritious foods, nearly unlimited amounts of media, healthcare, long term investments, new clothes, home heating, medication, and so on.
Many of of take these things for granted. I know I definately do--last night I had a big dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, went home to install a $120 software package that I bought just for fun, and then later crawled into my nice warm bed. Last night I did not think of people less fortunate than me.
When I see posts like yours though I get kind of pissed off. How can you be so selfish that you think that it's unfair that you pay more taxes even though all of your life's wants and needs are seen to? Be serious! We have obligations to society, not just our own pocketbook. Part of that means that we give up a few extra dollars that we would have sunk into entertainment centers or computer upgrades and instead make sure that people who lack 'the essentials' have a decent quality of living.
That means medicare, public assistance, housing, and education. It means trying to give other people in our society at least the minimum amounts of those things we have in abundance.
I don't think that we should evenly redistribute all of the wealth, but we should make sure that every member of our society can access the minimum essentials in life.
Unfair... pah.
The brilliant aspect of this patent is how many jobs will be created because of it.
Corinna
I have a geek house. 512k SDSL, six computers between my roommate and I, soon to have a 5.1 surround setup for entertainment center.
Of course, I no longer have any room for rent. Sorry.
Corinna