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COLUMBIA — Mike Petrik, a senior safety on the Rock Bridge football team, had just committed a costly penalty. Midway through the second quarter of the Bruins' homecoming game against Liberty on Oct. 19 at Rock Bridge Field, Petrik was flagged for a 25-yard pass interference call on a pass that didn't even appear to be catchable. The play not only kept alive a Blue Jays' drive that ended in a 30-yard field goal but it also provided early momentum for the Blue Jays in their 26-14 win.
"I was looking back for a run," Petrik said. "Everyone makes a mistake. They're going to happen. It's just how you bounce back from it."
On the next play, the Blue Jays ran a delayed swing pass to senior running back Sheldon Fannin. With most of the defenders covering deep routes, no one was there to cover the flat. Petrik, however, held his position mid-field. He watched the quarterback's eyes, and right before the ball was thrown, ran towards Fannin. The pass was over Fannin's head, but Petrik was the lone defender who could have stopped a potentially big play for the Blue Jays.
"That play reflects his leadership," junior Mac Cooper said. "He's a player that, if you do get him — nine out of 10 times you won't — but if you do get him, he will come back even stronger. And he'll see what he did wrong and make sure he's on top next time."
One area where Petrik is on top is statistics. Entering tonight's game, Petrik is leading Rock Bridge in scoring, reception yards and interceptions. He is also second in rushing yards and third in tackles. His impressive stats are a result of opportunity. Petrik has played seven different positions this year, and he's played eight different positions since his sophomore year, his first on varsity.
"He's kind of a jack of all trades," Bruins coach A.J. Ofodile said. "Most of the situations, it's just a case of need. He's a kid who definitely has a really high football IQ, but really a high athletic IQ as well. So he's a kid you can plug into a lot of different positions and get instant production out of him, because he really understands how to play the game."
Petrik's understanding of the game, along with the fact that he is one of only three seniors, and the lone defensive starter returning from last year's 9-1 team, has made him a leader for the Bruins. Much of his leadership, including saying the team prayer before each game, is apparent. But his leadership behind the scenes is just as beneficial.
Cooper, who moved from Pasadena, Calif., in August, said Petrik has helped him transition to a new school, a new city, and a new position, safety. Cooper played running back and wide receiver at his former school.
"I'm coming in as the new kid and thinking, 'Oh man, how do I do this?'" Cooper said. "Mike just came to me and said, 'If you ever need any help, just come to me. I will tell you whatever you need. Even if we were in the game, just say Mike and I'm right here. I'm always here to help you.' And I'm like, OK, that's perfect. I needed somebody the first couple of games to guide me. And he's still a great motivating figure for me."
Although he has been an influence for Cooper in the secondary, Petrik wasn't even supposed to play safety. As the backup quarterback the past two years — he backed up Logan Gray, who now plays for the University of Georgia — Petrik was slated to be the starting quarterback. However, senior Jake Morse, who transferred from Desoto, Kan., in January, was awarded the position.
"I've just always been right there behind Logan waiting my turn until my senior year," Petrik said. "We never knew that Jake was coming. I thought I would just play offense my senior year."
Although there was no competition, Ofodile said there would have been advantages having Petrik at quarterback.
"We would have restructured our entire offense a whole lot and taken advantage of his athletic ability," Ofodile said.
Petrik's athletic ability, and his knowledge of the routes because he had been a quarterback, are reasons Ofodile moved him to wide receiver.
"In the slot we've always had really big play guys, guys that were reliable, and he kind of fit that mold of what we have had in that spot before," Ofodile said. "It was pretty effortless (Petrik's transition). When spring opened up, he went straight to wide receiver and he never really looked back."
Although he had anticipated playing quarterback since his sophomore year, Petrik said he has enjoyed playing wide receiver, a position that provides him more opportunities to make plays.
"I thought I could make some big plays at wide receiver so I didn't mind," Petrik said. "And it took some pressure off me where I could just go out there and play backyard football, just juke some people out and show what I got."
Petrik, who is being recruited by "small schools" to play basketball, also likes playing the slot, because he sees similarities between wide receiver and point guard.
"We're not in control as much, but I like how once you get it in your hands you get to make some people miss and break some ankles and hopefully make the crowd make some noise," he said. "I get to show my basketball athleticism. At wide receiver, after you catch the ball, with some quick footwork and with some jukes you can easily make some people miss. It's fun to do it on the court or on the field. I don't mind where it is. It's just fun to make people look stupid."
But is it tough to play so many positions?
"It's not a physical problem," Petrik said. "It's more of a mental problem. Just knowing what to do on each play. I'll play where they need me, and I'm there to fight with the team and I got some guys who would do the same."

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Acadia reminded me so much of the Lord of the Rings but still held its own uniqueness and originality. Naqvi managed to write beautifully and create such a magnificent world. If you liked the Lord of the Rings trilogy you will enjoy this book entirely. It was adventurous and exciting. Maybe not i... See full review
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The book immediately started with sarcasm (which is a great start) from our first protagonist Luc. He's dark, handsome and oh so devilish so to speak. He makes girls fawn over him and he doesn't fail doing the same to Frannie. As he begins his crusade to tag Frannie's soul by making her sin with one... See full review
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Few months back I received an email from a publisher asking me to review one of the books under them and actually wanted to send me a paperback. Its the first time I've received something as such since... well... ever! And I can't believe I took so much time to actually pick up the book. Redheart... See full review
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The afterlife never seemed better!
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I remember when I finished the first installment of the Evernight series and how I didn't feel to keen on it and disliked it for its typical overratedness with a boarding school and vampires. And now that I finished the last book of the series I have realized that the first book of any series isn't ... See full review
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Mencheres' story wasn't what I expected. It was great but not that great. I felt like his love for Kira was rushed just like how the story was. But either way, this book posed as great entertainment despite the fact that it took me longer to read this compared to the first book. Though I did enjoy h... See full review
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The Name of the Star, an unusual name for a mysterious book. When I learned that this book was surrounded by Jack the Ripper and its myths. I thought it will be the usual, 'paranormal guy' who happens to be Jack the Ripper and he gets with 'normal girl' and they fall in love. Someone comes between t... See full review
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Once again, I dove right into a book with contents that are unknown to me. Was it about Vampires? Werewolves? Fairies? Witches? Angels? No. It isn't. I like surprising myself and I did just that when I begun this. British Theia Alderson has moved to the states when she was 13. Now, at 17, her fa... See full review
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Dreamland picked up where the last book left out. Riley's being stubborn as usual tries to break the rules all over again. This 3rd installment is as good as the other 2. Eventful, clean, and page-turning. The writing is written simply in 1st person and is perfect for younger readers and its extreme... See full review
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If I could describe this book with just 3 words, it would be charming, quick and fun. It's a story about Corrine and her struggle to adjust from her New York and I have a lot of money to her new manual everything life. Corrine's dad went almost bankrupt because of a bad investment and they all have ... See full review
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Most readers would say they hated this book because of how it's being narrated by a "redneck hillbilly Sookie Stackhouse" and for them to say such a thing about a book and its character is ridiculous. I'm open-minded enough to present to you The Wedding Gift. It was narrated by a 17-year-old Corn Pr... See full review
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Celeste Simone has created and written a alternate universe with new races based on the water and the air creatures. In literal sense, people who have wings and can fly and people who have fins and can swim. The worlds become chaotic when the Winglets (people who fly) and the Finlets (people who can... See full review
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Oh my freaking God! Why did I take so long to pick up this book? The entire time I was reading this book, I felt as if I was watching an episode of a brand new series. Now, I can't wait to read the next installments. The plot is amazing, like 5-star amazing. I love ghost stories and EVERYTHING... See full review
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Perfect Chemistry is another one of those cliche storys about two races, their rivalry and how one person from each side falls in love with each other. Grease, West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, and just plain old rich fall for the poor. One things for sure, EVERYONE loves the cliche even though the... See full review


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2013 is going to be one very exciting year for the world of celebrity babies! It seems like everyone is expecting a baby this year from Jessica Simpson to Kate Middleton and now Kim Kardashian! And it just happens to be that all these celebrity moms are allegedly due at around the same time.
While Great Britain is surely soaking up every detail about the Duchess' pregnancy, reality television fans are excited about what many are calling the golden Illuminati child now that Kim is pregnant with rapper Kanye West's baby. And don't you know, both ladies are exactly three months along in their pregnancy (allegedly) and are due to give birth at about the same time early this summer (allegedly).
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New monkey found in Myanmar near China dam project A new type of snub-nosed monkey has been found in a remote forested region of northern Myanmar which is under threat from logging and a Chinese dam project, scientists said on Wednesday. They said hunters in Myanmar's Kachin state said the long-tailed black monkey, with white-tufted ears and a white beard, could often be tracked in the rain because its upturned nostrils made it prone to sneezing when water dripped in. "It's new to science. It's unusual to travel to a remote area and discover a monkey that looks unlike any other in the world," Thomas Geissmann, lead author of the study at the University of Zurich-Irchel, told Reuters. Studies of a carcass and four skulls showed the monkey differed from snub-nosed monkeys in China and Vietnam. The experts had no photos of a live Myanmar monkey. The scientists estimated there were between 260 and 330 of the monkeys living in an area of about 270 sq km (100 sq miles) and believed the species to be critically endangered. "The hunting pressure is likely to increase considerably in the next few years as new dam construction and logging roads invade" the monkeys' habitat, they wrote in the American Journal of Primatology. IN CHINESE HANDS "The future of the snub-nosed monkey lies in Chinese hands," said Frank Momberg, of Fauna and Flora International and a co-author of the study. Monkeys were hunted for meat or fur and their body parts were used in traditional medicines in China. He said China Power Investment Corp., leading the dam project further down the valley on a tributary of the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, had an economic interest in preserving the forested region where the monkeys live. More roads and logging would cause erosion around the watershed that could clog up the new reservoir with silt, reducing power generation, he said. He praised China for carrying out a study of the dam's possible effect on the environment. The discovery of the snub-nosed monkey contrasts with a rising trend of extinctions, caused by factors such as land clearance, expansion of cities, pollution and climate change. A U.N. conference in Nagoya, Japan, this week is looking at ways to safeguard biological diversity after the world failed in a goal set in 2002 of a "significant reduction" in the pace of extinctions of animals and plants by 2010. A separate study in the journal Science showed growing numbers of the world's birds, mammals and amphibians had moved closer to extinction in recent decades. A fifth were classified as threatened. (Editing by Andrew Dobbie) © Thomson Reuters 2010. |
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Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More later, I promise. I hope to get interviews and lots more…
I just got here, so all I have done so far is watch the fascinating array of television that is available to Venezuelans. Channel 33, Globovision, had a meeting in a park (a couple of dozen people) on display this morning, where people denounced Chavez for depriving them of their human rights (to be fair, there were Chavistas at the meeting too, and they got a few minutes to speak as well). Channel 45, CMT I believe, had a fellow reading the right-wing newspapers El Nacional and el Universal. And the state television channel, Channel 8, had debates where members of the government appealed to citizens to make sure they got up very early in the morning on the morning of August 15 in order to vote! That is, VERY early — 3am. There is still much concern about sabotage, violence, and so on — if you can check my article with CP Pandya on ZNet you will see that members of the opposition believe that violence is the only option they have left.
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Impedance measures the total opposition to an alternating current (AC) in a circuit. Similar to the resistance in a circuit driven by direct current (DC), impedance is measured in ohms (Ω). However, impedance is typically characterized as a complex number and reflects both the resistance and the reactance of a circuit. Impedance is the ratio of the amplitude of the voltage to the amplitude of the current through the circuit. It can be expressed as . In this formula, Z represents impedance value, R represents the resistance (a real number), and jX represents the reactance (an imaginary number).
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cracks have become all the more visible with the recent crisis, perhaps the ideology of capitalism has been stretched too far.
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cracks have become all the more visible with the recent crisis, perhaps the ideology of capitalism has been stretched too far.
I have neither the time nor the interest to give a history lesson. Read up on the various ways in which there were institutional barriers to the wealthy in older times simply exploiting to their heart's content. People could flee from bad land lords, there were paths of advancement in religious and military institutions, many traditional checks on abuses of power, etc. There were lots of checks on private accumulation, though this did very with some areas such as India where there were very few. What exists now is that people have no way to shift back to subsistence when rewards from the marketplace don't go their way. Individuals who make some money can leverage vastly larger benefits from their capital than they could before. The production of the economy as a whole was near subsistence so income inequality between groups couldn't be nearly what it is today in most societies (barring the person at the top of the social pyramid, but I'm not even sure if the differences are as stark as that between a Mexican peasant and Carlos Slim).
None of this is to say that things aren't better for the poor now, just that the rich have accrued even more benefits. Part of the cost of this is that we maintain social transfers that take the place of the earlier ability to go back to subsistence living. It's also been observed time and time again that enabling people from the lower orders to move upward tends to be strongly associated with successful societies. Societies where mobility slows and the upper orders become unchanging and constant tend to grow weak. Insuring that everyone has the opportunity to compete and that advantages don't become hereditary is an important component of a societies continued success, and sometimes existence.
You completely missed my point regarding Social Security. Social Security payments are directly tied to the benefits received. It is intended to be a public pension plan. What the government does with the money is irrelevant to the analysis--whether it be us it for general revenue or put it in a "lock box." Moreover, Social Security should stop taxing a certain level. The benefits under Social Security are capped at a certain level regardless of benefits paid in.
As for your reference to the Mining Law, the cite you provide only states taht all American's have rights under the law.
As for Bill Gates using property law more than the welfare queen, this is an absured comparasion. Under your view, a person living in a high crime area uses the criminal laws more than a person in a low crime area. Both are laws of general public use and benefit.
And, SUVs, virtually everybody in America drives a SUV both rich and poor.
Oh by the way, that evil top 20% that accumulates all the wealth, do you mean those people making $72k a year? Yeah that is right, $72k a year puts you in the top 20% of earners. Why would anyone go to college and accumulate $50,000 in debt to make less than $72k a year. Moreover, who would want to be a doctor and accumulate $120,000 in debt to make $50k a year. City street sweepers and garbage men make more than $50k a year.
You argue that the modern social order has provided greater benefits tht wealthy than the poor. The reality is that the modern social order has benefited the poor vastly more than the wealthy. Never before was there a transfer from the wealthy to the poor until the advent of the modern social order. The transfer was quite the opposite: from poor to wealthy. So, the modern social order has provided the greatest benefits to the poor. As you note, the wealthy simply maintained an army to maintain the social order.
As for your claim that the wealthy today have accumlated greater wealth than in the past, this simply is not true. History is replete with examples of persons accumulating vast wealth well beyond today's. The only difference is that the poor were much poorer.
As for the poor in America, this is absured. Only in American is obesity the greatest health problem facing the poor. It is hard to have much sympathy for someone who claims to be poor but is quite well fed and idle. The poor in Africa or India would love to come to a country where the poor people are FAT.
I've read enough of your post to be fairly sure that you were playing something along the lines of devil's advocate. Still, these are timeless notions that have always existed and continue to do so. I just felt like explaining why I'm not to worried about simply assuming them away, attempts to try them have always failed and I'm confident they will continue to do so.
This is one of those Economist articles that looks important but says nothing.
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I was just taking the devil's advocate side of things; there's no way we can trust the elite or their government to choose the correct chaff to eliminate. And today's chaff might just be tomorrow's cream, in the face of some yet unrecognized evolutionary challenge. However, touching on another seemingly-current topic on these blogs, nobody should be denied contraception due to their lack of means.
But the farmer will always hate the crow, for it eats the corn but gives neither milk nor meat...
@Lafayette - I agree completely that Khodorkovksy is a 'grade A arseh*le', but it is not Putin's Russia that have made him into a 'martyr and a liberal symbol' - less that 5% of the Russian population sympathizes with him and less than 2% were following the trial closely according to a recent Levada poll, while Putin's approval rating remains in the high 70's. It is rather the Western corporately-owned press and their governments glorifying the cult of the superrich that have turned him into a 'martyr and liberal symbol'...and state that on whatever grounds questions the property rights and political power of the global elite transnational class must first be demonized and then brought to heel by whatever means necessary...
I actually have to agree with those oligarchs, or super-rich or whatever. At everything they say. Why is everyone else in a state of self-pity and enjoys pointing fingers at others instead of looking at themselves is completely beyond me. Surely there is a more creative way of utilising your time - maybe by trying to figure out how to come to great wealth, and then distribute it for a greater social good - if you're a socialist or simply like sharing. Wouldn't that be a better option for everyone? It is much easier instead, to look at the faults of others rather than those of our own.
And for all those articles I've read here on how China is overtaking the world, I am yet to hear a Chinese person complain about the Chinese super-rich.
Who in god's name thinks the superrich in the USA at least are not willing to pay taxes? Most of them are Democrats! Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, George Soros, and so on are liberals. The fact is, the superrich make so much money that they derive so little utility from each additional dollar over a certain threshold that they value the warm fuzzy feeling of "helping the poor" and seeming cool and cultured to their colleagues and the elite radical chic community they patronize more than avoiding taxes. The problem is that income in America is distributed along an exponential curve. Everyone up to the top say .05% or so is somewhere in the linear section of that curve. Income only gets really lopsided at the very, very top. Ironically, these people tend to want the money least. It makes sense though for people making say $250,000 a year or $500,000 a year in high tax states like NY, NJ, and CT paying 50% of their income to the government to complain. They actually value each extra dollar they earn quite a bit and generally cannot flee to lower tax areas while retaining their employment. Plus, most people who make that much only reach that level later in their careers. That means expenses like college and saving for retirement heavily weigh on those incomes. I think we need a more graduated tax system that is better attuned to the income levels at which we actually see marginal utility decrease. Do you guys agree?
Many, many societies in the past have sought to indulge in various fantasies about eliminating the poor and unproductive, dating at least back to Qin Shihuang Di who had some rather peculiar ideas on what virtue was and how to instill it. While I can't take for granted that some will fantasize about the ability to simply eliminate the lower orders through eugenics or more direct methods the actual history of these attempts leads me to believe that even where these efforts lead to short term successes through efficiency the ultimately fail because they are fundamentally incorrect about the human condition and cannot maintain their power because they ignore human nature. They simply can't maintain legitimacy or authority nor are they able to foster human creativity or manage change. Such societies have always been and will always be failures. People are welcome to engage in these fantasies but they're just that, the world doesn't work this way and always hits back hard when tried. At most these experiments last a few generations, they're simply unstable and get too much wrong about their environment and collapse under the impossibility of their doctrines.
You say that the rich derive valuable benefits from the wealth they allow (or by means of government) to the poor (e.g. safe cities). But in cold calculation aren't there way more poor people than we need to proverbially 'dig ditches' for the upper 20%? Aren't a lot of those lower end folks just serving each other? So if I'm rich, I say OK I get what I need from about 10% of the lower half; let's just dispose of the other 90% and make their neighborhoods into wildlife sanctuaries? And stretch out the finite oil, water, fish and other resources that I can afford but why compete with other mouths that aren't doing me (or in my judgement, God's earth) any tangible good?
My point is that you can't assume everyone accepts the premise that the poor 'exist' and therefore we need to placate them so they won't rob us or quit picking up our trash. At some level of wealth and power one can conceive of scenarios in which the unnecessary portion of the masses can be de-existed. Then the remainder can have a 10% raise.
Some of us have indeed done well in countries outside our home nation. My family is British, living in the USA for the past 10 years. We play plenty of tax. Interestingly, when we first started working with our current financial advisers, they asked how much tax we wanted to pay. When we said 30%, feeling a bit guilty about low-balling, they expressed astonishment. "All our clients say zero!" they said. But if you pay no tax, how can you expect your country to have a government or an infrastructure? Schools, roads, security, etc benefit everyone and so everyone should contribute.
On the point of helping your home country, I tried very hard to provide funds to my old comprehensive secondary school in the Midlands, UK. I offered them money to underwrite their entire drama program. I offered to pay for field trips. I offered to pay for other stuff, including essay prizes, hardship funds.... In the end, I agreed to send them a thousand pounds to enable everyone in the GCSE years to go to Stratford to see some Shakespeare performed by the RST. This was the only thing the school could see would be useful. I duly provided the money. I never got a thank you letter. I never got told if it was used for the purpose I provided it, who might have gone to the theater, what they saw, or whether that was a useful thing for the students or school. I could happily have provided the same funds - or more - every year for the foreseeable future. As it is, I am never going to give them another penny.
Instead, I am providing funds to a number of educational nonprofits in my local US area, and I give money to my own children's schools. All these organizations understand donor stewardship. It was clear that the British school had no idea how to work with a donor, and I was simply too far away to be able to help them understand how to maximize this relationship to their advantage. It's a real shame.
I worked really hard in a past life and was born with a high IQ as a result. Thus I have earned and deserve any and all rewards it brings.
But good discussion in here kids. Enjoyable reading and thought-provoking.
"Based on your claim that Social Security is a true tax, a pension plan or 401k or any other retirement plan is a tax."
Funds for pension plans ad 401(k) plans and private savings do not fund general governmental expenditures. Payroll taxes do.
"With regard to your claim that higher wager earners use more public resources. Please provide empirical evidence of this. "
Sure. Bill Gates uses intellectual property law a bazillion times more than Welfare Queen Judy. He uses it to make billions upon billions of dollars that he wouldn't in its absence. Welfare Queen Judy gets a few hundred dollars in food stamps a month.
Wealthy folks drive huge SUVs which wear on the road while poor folks cram into buses. Rich folks rely on property law to a far greater extent that poor folks who don't have property. It goes on and on and on.
"However, the industries that use greater public resources pay for them through use fees, licenses, or taxes."
I'll simply refer you to the General Mining Act of 1872 as a clear counter example on this issue:
"...and when times are good the employees also benefit."
Nice theory. The reality is that the top 1% runs off with 40% of economic growth, the top 20% pocket 94%, the middle class shrinks, and the poverty level rises.
The relevant public resources are those that mean that business today can be maintained by modern contract law rather than require family ties, that the wealthy can walk the city streets without armed retinues, and that businesses can attract skills and labor from worldwide rather than have to worry about maintaining a fragile and easily destroyed professional class to staff their businesses. All these things exist today and make life vastly different for the wealthy classes than they were in the past, while life for the poor is much the same. It's the diffuse shared benefits of public infrastructure that do so much to make life different from the wealthy that would dissolve if we didn't invest so heavily in public institutions. The pittance transferred to the poor maintains the social order and security that the wealthy leverage so heavily to attain wealth undreamt of by their peers in past eras. Those are the public resources being leveraged, not the physical but the social infrastructure.
Based on your claim that Social Security is a true tax, a pension plan or 401k or any other retirement plan is a tax. Even a saving account under your reasoning would be a tax. Neither a savings acccount nor a pension plan is a tax.
Simply because lower wage earners pay a higher percentage of their income in, does not make Social Security regressive. Lower wage earners receive a higher return in benefits in relation to their income. As I noted, money paid in is directly tied to money paid out.
With regard to your claim that higher wager earners use more public resources. Please provide empirical evidence of this. Please explan how an account, nurse, doctor, or stock broker making $125,000 uses more public resource that a person on welfare, Medicaid, or a person making $50,000 and how the person making $125,000 uses greater public resources in relation to the taxes paid in.
In reality, the use of public resources in relation to a specific profession or job is dependent on the profession or job and the industry. However, the industries that use greater public resources pay for them through use fees, licenses, or taxes. For example, the trucking industry uses public road. Trucks pay higher registration fees and tolls. You have to remember, however, the trucking industry generates good middle class jobs. A UPS driver can make over $90,000 to $100,000 a year.
But do not think that I am an apologist for big business. I have no problem with big business. However, I do not like this outsourcing of jobs and industry. We need to keep jobs here in America and maintain our industrial base. I for one am willing to pay a higher price for the "Made in America" brand where a business pays a decent wage. As far as I am concerned, if a business owner makes a $1million a year great as long as he does it legally and remembers that he need to treat his employees fairly, and when times are good the employees also benefit.
ccusa, I'm talking about what worries me will happen if the problem is not addressed sensibly and soon, not what I want to see. If I were politically ambitious and totally unscrupulous, I would fan *all* the fears and resentments of the White working class and petit bourgeoisie. That would be a fearsome populism.
Heimdall, we probably do in general agree on what a reasonable and sustainable distribution of wealth would look like. But you missed the point of my comment on communism--it's not sharing what I have that bothers me, my problem is not being able to choose who I share with. I suspect many feel the same way in a country as large and diverse as ours.
"Regarding social security taxes, although called a tax, the social security tax is not a tax--even if the federal government is using the funds paid in as general revenue."
If it looks like a duck, smells like a duck, quacks like a duck, and eats like a duck... Guess what? It's a duck.
I know how Social Security was set up. Medicare too. Intergenerational transfers of wealth to provide insurance.
But theories and realities oft diverge, and this is one such case. The reality of this situation is that payroll taxes are massively regressive income taxes.
Regressive, because not only do those with larger incomes not pay more, they pay the same exact amount on every dollar. Massively so, because they actually stop paying this income tax somewhere just north of $100k in income while the working poor pay it on every single dollar they earn.
"Whereas with income taxes, there is no relationship to the amount paid in and the benefits received."
Totally wrong. Income taxes go to fund a large variety of infrastructure projects ranging from the physical (e.g., transportation, national security) to the intangible (e.g., the rule of law). The higher your income is, the more you rely on this infrastructure. Without this infrastructure, you would in no way be able to earn such a high income, no matter how hard working and talented you think you are.
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