Posted by
Dave on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:34:49 PM
As you probably already know, the rich are the bane of the world. They have entirely too much money and their frivolous spending is frankly disgusting. Whether it's here in the U.S. or Europe, the Middle East or South America, rich people are ruining it for the rest of us.
We really should put an end to this. Since the U.S. is moving more and more towards a democracy (and most people think that's what we are anyway), I say we just get everyone who makes less than $75k per year to vote Democrat from now on. With Socialist/Communist Democrats in control, we can be assured that laws will be passed penalizing anyone making more than $75k per year. Other laws, programs, and legislation will be passed to further assist in stealing from those wretched rich people and give their money to the helpless, innocent, deserving poor.
Of course the ultimate goal is to make everyone equal. Everyone will earn the same amount of money no matter what they do, where they live, or how much talent or education they have. This will be wonderful. The end of class warfare in America.
I checked the
stats and in 2000, average earnings per job was about $36,000. So under our new society, let's just assume that every working person will earn $36,000/year. A household with two working adults will earn $72,000/year. That sounds great. Unless of course you currently make more than $36k/year; but you're the minority and this is for the greater good. After all, the country as a whole will be a much better place to live because we'll all be equal.
Obviously, there will have to be some adjustments.
Since no one will be able to afford luxury items, companies that manufacture high end cars, boats, houses, jewelry, and clothes will go out of business. That also means, engineers, designers, contractors, salesmen, and thousands of other workers will have to do something else. We won't have any doctors, nurses, lawyers, executives, pro athletes, or small business owners because there won't be enough reward for the cost of education, training, and risk. Unfortunately there won't be any retail stores because no business can afford to pay cashiers and burger-flippers $36,000/year. But that won't really matter because there won't be any educational institutions teaching people how to read or count. No one is going to teach for $36,000/year for very long and of course, there won't be any administrators.
I guess the government will have to start assigning jobs to people, especially those that no one wants to do. All products will be too costly with the dramatic increase in labor so we'll either have to purchase everything from overseas or the government will have to set the price on goods as well. Once the price is set, goods will be more valuable than they're worth so there will be shortages and long lines. Say good-bye to R&D and new or improved products. Of course someone in government will still want to look out for their cousin Jimmy so there will be lots of products on the market that no one really wants. After all, everyone will have to do some sort of work.
Hopefully, since everyone will be equal the crime rate will drop. That's assuming that no one in the country is greedy at all. I guess that also assumes that since luxury items won't be available, the demand for them will also stop. Not sure what will happen to large homes that no one can afford. I would assume that they'll be taken over by the government or law enforcement. Perhaps multiple families can move in to them and share the costs.
That makes sense, since most people will stop having children. Without a means to earn more money to support a larger family, people that want children will probably only have 1. Although I guess income levels could rise based on the number of children you have, but that might encourage people to have children they don't really care about. Nah, the government would never do something like that.
Actually, this whole scenario assumes that there is a limited supply of money, but we all know the fed can make as much as they want. So never-mind.
Ya'll come back now, ya hear!