I am not a fan of our current president, but I want our president to be successful on behalf of all of my America. My concern is we are not moving in the right direction.
For example, consider the issue of healthcare. Yes, we have the best healthcare available for our fellow citizens on this earth, but when it comes to providing this healthcare to our fellow Americans, our cost per person for healthcare in America far exceeds the cost of any other nation. And we rank behind ten other nations when it comes to providing healthcare for all of a nation’s citizens.
Consider the current growing gap between the rich and the poor and middle class in our nation. If I had been a working adult American during the 1940s and 1950s, and if I had earned a million dollars in a given year, my take home amount after federal and state taxes would have amounted to about six hundred thousand dollars at a time when the middle class were happy to be making a total of twenty five thousand dollars before taxes were considered. Those higher amounts of taxes that the well to do were paying allowed for America to become the victors in a world war and to provide our nation with an outstanding infrastructure of roads and bridges under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. Today, our fellow Americans in the rich and wealthy class are paying taxes that, percentage wise, amount to less than half of what was paid decades ago. And who suffers? Our nation and especially the poor and lower middle classes.
I personally am not a part of the rich and wealthy, but I have done well enough to be in the upper middle class of our nation. And given my awareness of our successes during the 1940s and 1950s, I am not opposed to the idea of facing a higher tax rate for my earnings because the success that comes from such higher taxes helps those on the financial scale below me and eventually helps us a nation to continue to grow and prosper.
Let us learn from our own history of the 1940s and 1950s. Let us look at how the people in so many of our allied nations are so much happier than our people as a result of their policies of universal healthcare and the employee benefit of paid parental leave to care for the newborn. Let us live up to the concept found in the title of our nation, that we are a United States of America.
For example, consider the issue of healthcare. Yes, we have the best healthcare available for our fellow citizens on this earth, but when it comes to providing this healthcare to our fellow Americans, our cost per person for healthcare in America far exceeds the cost of any other nation. And we rank behind ten other nations when it comes to providing healthcare for all of a nation’s citizens.
Consider the current growing gap between the rich and the poor and middle class in our nation. If I had been a working adult American during the 1940s and 1950s, and if I had earned a million dollars in a given year, my take home amount after federal and state taxes would have amounted to about six hundred thousand dollars at a time when the middle class were happy to be making a total of twenty five thousand dollars before taxes were considered. Those higher amounts of taxes that the well to do were paying allowed for America to become the victors in a world war and to provide our nation with an outstanding infrastructure of roads and bridges under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. Today, our fellow Americans in the rich and wealthy class are paying taxes that, percentage wise, amount to less than half of what was paid decades ago. And who suffers? Our nation and especially the poor and lower middle classes.
I personally am not a part of the rich and wealthy, but I have done well enough to be in the upper middle class of our nation. And given my awareness of our successes during the 1940s and 1950s, I am not opposed to the idea of facing a higher tax rate for my earnings because the success that comes from such higher taxes helps those on the financial scale below me and eventually helps us a nation to continue to grow and prosper.
Let us learn from our own history of the 1940s and 1950s. Let us look at how the people in so many of our allied nations are so much happier than our people as a result of their policies of universal healthcare and the employee benefit of paid parental leave to care for the newborn. Let us live up to the concept found in the title of our nation, that we are a United States of America.
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