Look, it has to be said, that President Grover Cleveland in 1888, stated, “He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor." The bottom line is that the rich already have everything, in the sense of power, position, connections, and favoritism, and to believe somehow that through the generosity of their respective hearts, they will do their fair part to help the poor and disadvantaged is to believe in the improbable, nay, the impossible. In fact, the rich have the strongest belief that what they have is theirs to own and that they thereby owe nothing to anyone else, including their governance which helped create the foundation for their success, and further to the point, if they are going to dole out any of their money, it has a strong tendency to go to places in which they will receive appropriate approbation, from, for instance, a university, a hospital, or a museum.
The very point of having a strong central government that is structured of, for, and by the people is for that government to responsibly do right by its citizens, which begins first with lifting up those that need the most lifting, because the measure of a good and fair government, should not ever be how rich the rich are, but rather should be how poor the poor are, and thereby what that government is doing to rectify and to alleviate such for the overall beneficence and stability of the people within that nation which is meant to be structured to serve the people, in whole..
To the point, there are plenty of people that labor hard, that are diligent and responsible in their work, of which, we find that this government does not feel it to be a priority that those that labor for forty hours or even more in a week, are entitled to receive a living wage, which doesn’t even make sense, because whatever that these underpaid laborers are not receiving in wages, the government is going to in one form or another, have to backstop, which essentially means that those that are profiting most from an underpaid workforce, are able to profit more at the expense of those laborers, without correspondingly paying their fare share in taxes to the government.
The objective of any good and responsible governance is to not only level the playing field, but also to see that through our progressive tax system and through governmental oversight, that those who are the biggest earners and the richest, personal as well as corporate, do their fair part, to pay what they owe to this government, and do so on the up and up, as opposed to hiding behind all sorts of tax dodges, and game playing, which subverts them from having to pay what they ought to pay, because those that don’t do their fair part are cheating the system, cheating the government, and cheating the people, which isn’t right and isn’t patriotic.