Payson, our new home is like so many places in nice areas. The rich want to live here, and drive the poor out. Americans just cannot grasp the effects of income inequality. Anyone who thinks this country is a classless society is as delusional as a Hooplehead. In every desirable place to live the rich move in and drive up housing prices. This has the effect of making it impossible for the servants, the serfs, the peasants, and the slaves to live in the same area. In the New York Times today there is a lengthy article about housing in and around the Rocky Mountains. Multi million dollar homes sit empty while the slave shacks are too expensive for the slaves to live in.
All of this stems from the tax structure. The rich are no longer taxed which means they just get richer. The poor pay taxes and they get poorer. Until the country goes back to a progressive income tax we are doomed. Nobody wants to pay taxes and the rich have purchased the government so they don't have to be taxed. Now the rich get richer, and the poorer.
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