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August 18, 2011
tax benefit
Good article about why the American middle class and poor do not advocate raising taxes on the rich. Of course, this article is slanted and the American rich and their companies can choose to live in countries that require lower taxes however, their financial advantage would have to outweigh any comforts they would lose. Also, from my encounters with the Swedes which includes working with them, I would disagree with the author's ideas that their taxation attitudes would be different toward immigrants. Culturally, Swedes value in the good of the collective much more highly than Americans.
This leads me to unemployment benefits. I would say that my generation has felt the pain of unemployment as documented below.
Yet as someone who has never used unemployment, due to the economic downturn, my attitude has changed drastically about unemployment benefits, from why would someone ever use it to unemployment benefit extensions might be a good idea. We currently have a large group of people who will have increasing difficulty in finding employment (9% unemployed according to Gallup polls). The deeper they sink into the bottom class, it will be more costly for society as a whole.
So, again, I'm advocating for more understanding.
As an aside, my professor mentioned today about the youthfulness of smallpox (human history of smallpox (pdf)) and that got me wondering what other virus might be at a tipping point. Do I dare to hope that it will be another dsDNA virus?
Posted by azileretsis at August 18, 2011 11:33 AM
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