Why I'll never be a part of Society- part 3 (standard:other, 1369 words) [3/4] show all parts
Author: Thunder God	Added: Apr 16 2002	Views/Reads: 2540/1881	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The third in a series of rants.

First, I want to thank the anonymous person who clued me into the forum.
 I really like to see that my writing has sparked some passion in a few 
people.  If you haven't seen it, check out the thread called, "Why 
Thunder God is an Idiot."  You guys raise a lot of good points although 
some of them are little misguided in my opinion.  That's okay. At least 
you guys are thinking about things differently. 

There does seem to be a reoccuring theme in the forum discussion. Nobody
seems to like being made fun of or my superior attitude. I don't 
understand why that is(sarcasm).  I don't like being made fun of 
either.  Although, if you weren't inspired to thought by my opinions, 
at the very least you were offended by me.  Either you shake it off and 
ignore or you let it get to you.  I'm just some kid with an old 
computer and internet access.  Don't take the insults too seriously.  
If I were someone you knew or cared about and I were making fun of you 
then you might have something to be upset about.  If I've hurt anyone's 
feelings, I'm sorry.  That's not what I'm trying to do here.  I just 
want you to think about the role you play in society.  Some people will 
pay attention to just logic.  Others need to be called stupid so that 
they will try to prove to everyone that they're not stupid.  That's 
flawed logic, but I think that someone would see it like that and maybe 
would follow the same line of flawed thinking. 

That's my little apology to the tens of people I've hurt.  I want to
talk briefly about a few things then I'll leave you all alone.  First, 
I keep hearing about the overburdened middle class and how the middle 
class pays for everything and doesn't get any breaks from the 
government.  I want you to think about this.  When taxes are raised 
even a small amout, say 2%, it hurts the lower class more than it hurts 
the middle class.  I'll give an example with made up numbers.  Take two 
families both with a mother, a father, and a child.  One family makes 
only $20,000 per year and pays 15% in taxes.  That's $3,000 a year from 
that $20,000.  After taxes they have $17,000 to live on.  The other 
family makes $80,000 per year and pays 20% in taxes, because the more 
money you make the more you pay.  This second family pays $16,000 in 
taxes, leaving them $64,000 to live on.  Family two is in the middle 
class and Family 1 is lower class.  Now let's say that Congress passes 
a bill that raises taxes for everyone by 2%.  Family 1 pays 17% and 
Family 2 pays 22% after the new bill is passed.  Family one only has to 
pay another $400 in taxes under the new tax law.  Family two has to pay 
another $1600 in taxes.  From these numbers most people would say that 
this is unfair that the middle has to pay so much more.  My argument is 
this.  They pay more because they can better afford it.  Family one is 
living on a salary that is so small that they can hardly afford to put 
food on the table.  Family two after the new taxes still has nearly 4 
times as much money as the poor family.  I want to ask those of you 
from the middle class reading this, would you trade with Family one?  I 
don't think any of you would.  That is why the lower class gets more 
help from the government.  They need help just to get by.  Most people 
in the middle class want help because they want the extra money. 

The above is as close as it gets to evidence for me.  So please take it
and be happy.  I write these things off the top of my head without any 
planning, so there is usually nothing but my thoughts on the page.  
But, since everyone seems to think that my opinions need to be based on 
solid evidence, I'll try to do that.  That's not to say that I've 
formed these opinions without any compelling evidence, it's more that I 
forget that you haven't seen the same evidence I have.  Altough, in 
some cases, these are really just my observations. 

Also, my apologies to the Greenpeace people.  They work towards a very
important goal although, I think that some of what they do is a litte 
misguided.  They take very radical stances, like someone we all know, 
and estrange themselves.  The problem there is that they are a huge 
group that gets a lot of media coverage, most of it negative.   It's 
hard to be taken seriously by most Americans when your opinions are so 
far outside the norm.  They would have a lot more support if they were 
to tone it down a little. 

When I say that Greenpeace is misguided, I mean that they should be
worried about the causes that go into the problem they are trying to 
solve.  If you don't know Greenpeace is an enviromental group.  They 
are trying to preserve natural resources and the beauty of the wild by 
fighting corporations and the government, to some extent.  My problem 
is that they are still trying to work within the existing system, which 


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