Stop Bashing The Rich - Poor Susie Harrison, Heath, Texas - Can we get yet another refrain from your tune of "why is everybody always picking on me?"

At a time when our nation is in need of a collective effort to meets the demands placed on all of it's citizens I am offended by comments such as those made my Ms Harrison, who not only misses the point that we are all in this together, but uses inflammatory rhetoric to get a point across, that expresses a political view which can only be called propaganda.  The words we choose to express our opinions have real meaning and your choice of words says a great deal about your opinion.  In my youth my parents taught me to be part of life without becoming the center of my life and to ask "why not me" rather than "why me."

When I looked up the definition of the term "bashing" this is what I found:

bash·ing/ˈbaSHiNG/

Noun:

Violent physical assault. Severe criticism.

I do not recall any letters to the editor in The Dallas Morning News advocating violent physical assaults against " the wealthy, rich or just people that have money."  And, aside from the "Occupy Movement" which can not claim to represent anyone other than their members, I have not read any letters that in any way approach "severe criticism."  What I have read are opinions, representing both sides of the argument, about what income segments of society should pay more for the increased taxes necessary to meet our obligations to owners of our national debt and those social obligations the nation has already given its approval of - such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, commitments to our veterans, etc.  To argue that one side or the other should pay more as the Republicans have demanded, or that all should pay more as the Democrats have suggested, is not "bashing" in any sense of the word.


The truth is, growth in income over the past twenty-years have gone mostly to those who are in the minority of citizens (per population) while the majority of citizens have seen their income increase little or nothing at all.


Ms. Harrison should review her that those who want a more equitable distribution of the sacrifices we must all make to meet our nation's needs.  This is not jealousy, it is a common desire that sharing in the benefits derived from public taxation policies be made equivalent to a proportional sacrifice when public taxation policy needs to be changed.


Stop asking why me Ms. Harrison and start asking why not me?

What's with all the bashing of the wealthy, rich or just people that have money? Almost every letter on this subject is why we should tax them more than the average Joe. I suspect that money was made by good decisions, smart thinking, and enviable timing.
If people with money were taxed beyond the reasonable limit the window of investment would get smaller by every day. Nowhere is it written in our laws that those people are required to invest in anything. Jealousy is obvious on most of the letters from people ranting about why the "elite" should be "punished" for success.
If you can't adjust to others' success, you are in for a real awakening in life.

Susie Harrison, Heath

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