Any examples there where people live peacefully but don't pay taxes to support their country? If not, then on any continent?
Cayman Islands?
And you think one guy has any sort of leverage whatsoever against a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Your free market sure gives a lot of illusions of choice, but unless you're an extremely exceptional individual, you effectively have none.
If you think workers in exploiting capitalist markets have no choice, please tell that to the business owners who outsourced to Mexico, China, and India. With labor shortages and rapidly rising wages in those countries, I am sure those business owners could use a laugh.
By the way, my parents are poor. They make six figures a year each from their normal jobs, plus own about 4 rental properties, and run a small business from home. Yet their monthly bills are over $20,000 a month, and after all the other expenses (like supporting my younger brother, my grandparents, sending money to family back in our country, paying off loans used for medical expenses for my grandparents, etc), they can't afford any frivolous stuff like eating out, new clothes, car repairs, or most types of groceries. I think they "need" assistance.
I an poor. I make a very (VERY) comfortable income, but after all the money that goes to max out my retirement and savings accounts, I only bring home maybe $600 every two weeks. After all my bills and student loans and money I spend on friends and family to help them or keep them entertained, I can't afford things like cable TV, video game consoles, weekly trips to restaurants or movies, new shoes, and many times even a good lunch. I do litteraly live on $900 or so a month. Less than that even. Maybe I'm poor, and "need" stuff like food stamps. That would make coking dinner much easier, since I won't have to do it from scratch so often.
My ex-bf in KY lives with his wife, and both of them bring home about $1,000 a month after taxes. No 401k's or retirement accounts, practically no savings accounts, and a lot of the money goes to pay off the wife's old credit card loans. They have nice TVs, a PS3 and an X-Box with lots of games, they have a nice collection of DVDs, and go out to the movies often, they eat nice foods, and buy themselves lots of things like clothes, tech toys, and other stuffs. They are also poor and always broke.
But why is it that my poor ex-bf has all that fun stuff he spends money on, and is actually considered poor, while my family and I are usually broke, don't have any of those fun entertaining things, and can't afford to enjoy our lives like he can, but we're supposedly not poor at all? Heck, in the end, he may have free spending cash than we do (moreso, since he's willing to use credit cards) Is it just different priorities?
