I am not so much in favor of hiking taxes on the wealthiest, b/c they will find the means to shield much of it by perhaps moving (more) of their money off-shore to tax-havens such a Switzerland and some island nations...or pass on their increased tax obligations by reducing overhead including their workforce for those who are employers, and/or cancelling expansion plans, avoiding more riskier investments, and drastically cutting down on the amount of money that they would have otherwise have used to help fund start-ups and established ventures that they have bought an interest or stocks in.
What does bother me is how that US has gradually moved from a largely manpower-heavy and career-worthy industrial, construction, and manufacturing-based economy to one that is mainly vaporous, transitional, and more temporary services-based. How long will it be before maybe half or more of US population relies/survives mainly upon and is ever-more deeply involved in an untaxed black-market where most people are buying and selling Rx meds and growing/manufacturing illegal drugs? Seems like for many nowadays, we are already there.
What does bother me is how that US has gradually moved from a largely manpower-heavy and career-worthy industrial, construction, and manufacturing-based economy to one that is mainly vaporous, transitional, and more temporary services-based. How long will it be before maybe half or more of US population relies/survives mainly upon and is ever-more deeply involved in an untaxed black-market where most people are buying and selling Rx meds and growing/manufacturing illegal drugs? Seems like for many nowadays, we are already there.
