Rich-poor gap not necessarily bad

This is in regards to Andrew Shepherd’s article in the Nov. 30 Daily Wildcat.

Every time I read an article in the Perspective section of the Daily Wildcat it is usually about how the Republicans, the rich or the CEOs are reaping all the benefits of the American wealth while giving the shaft to the middle and lower class. Well, let me shed some light on the matter. 

Even if what Andrew Shepherd wrote about in his “”(In)equality in America”” article about the increasing gap in the upper, middle and lower classes of America (is true), that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Look at it this way: If someone working on an assembly line is making $30,000 a year and a CEO is making $500,000 and both get a 10 percent raise, the guy on the assembly line is now making $33,000 and the CEO is making $550,000. As you can see, the gap has increased by $27,000 but it’s hard to say that BOTH people are not better off. 

Furthermore, the article goes and bashes the corporations for moving their businesses offshore and I don’t blame them. If you want them to come back and create manufacturing plants, quit taxing them so much. America has the second highest corporate taxes in the world, just behind Japan. Less taxes bring about more jobs; supply side economics DOES work. If it didn’t, how did Ronald Reagan create two million jobs a year while he was in office? I bet the American people would love those kinds of numbers instead of the newly coined Obama administration term “”Jobs Saved.”” 

—Trevor Laky

Political Science Major

President, UA College Republicans

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