Citizen's United II - the other foot

[kandrathe]

If (hypothetically) the 1% redirected a huge slice of income to themselves, and then gave a little bit of it back, this would not exonerate them. Even Feudalism had Noblesse Oblige.

The question would still be; have they done anything wrong in gaining their wealth? Most likely not. The inequity is in how wages are treated compared to other forms of earnings, and in how small businesses are treated more severely than large corporations.

Once you get big enough, then you can buy some government, and all is much easier. We might look at the current coal industry, and think that government is being hard on those capitalist coal interests. Not. Once the profit is gone, they will flee coal. the miners will be out and the economy in towns where they live will suffer. It's much like the turn of the century... Once the outrage mounted for clear cutting of virgin forests, the big timber interests moved on to iron mining, or steel, or railroads, or salt mining, etc.