Taxes, Government Spending, and Inequality

By Redflower 1

This is Shirley. She had gotten straight A’S throughout high school and right when she was supposed to leave for college her stepmother had passed away leaving her, as the oldest to take care of her siblings. The company that her father worked for, his boss, stole tons of money from various people and part of him being guilty meant that they had to seize all of his assets leaving Shirley's father without a job.

Families like Shirley live in a run down home with barely any food on the table, or running water in the pipes. Many families sleep in one room, in one bed and sometimes choose what day they are going to eat if they have gained enough money from begging on the streets. If their lucky one of them gets a minimum wage job being a server or janitor who cleans up and waits on strangers.

The government is too busy taxing people whom barely have enough to eat to fund schools with successful hardworking teachers, and even if such teacher walks through the doors, they are most likely laid off because their isn’t enough money to pay them. There used to be schools with programs to assist students in there studies and give personalized individual attention if needed in small classrooms. But those schools and programs got shut down because their wasn’t enough funding.

Prep schools and colleges are at least $34,000 a year, and those schools, as well as the people that attend them get a very large tax break, than the families struggling to feed and cloth their loved ones. All the enriching programs and teachers that belonged to so many public schools, are now at ones like these because someone showed that they had a check book. Most student’s have the ability to do well in a prestigious institutions like this one. Straight A’s in every subject and articulate beyond imaginable. However the only thing that is separating them from obtaining access here is the lack of money in their pockets.

Who’s to assume that these students have a greater right to attend a school with a great education than other students, from working class families? These kids are only here because their parents donated a library, or have a large in heritance, or because their parents play golf with the president of the school on Saturdays. These student’s, half of them cut class to smoke with their buddies, or go to a party with under age drinking involved. The only reason why they are not kicked out is because of their last name or their parents bank account.

On the outside these people look like they are completely perfect. Well they are not. The only reason she has an expensive red dress is because her daddy bought it for her. This house was earned from his money too, as was that “high class” painting on the wall. All of them have had at least two DUI’s on their record but of course it was expunged because they showed a few dollar bills. All of them are “enrolled in a university” but are taking “a year off to find themselves”. In actuality they still live in “mommy” and “daddy’s” house. If you ask them who Shakespeare is, they are guaranteed to say, something along the lines of “some really famous guy or something”, and if you ask them what a thesis statement is, they are most likely going to say, “I don’t speak French”.

The head of companies such as these generally inherit it from their parents and haven’t ever work a day in their lives until their parents are no longer around to give them money that they didn’t earn themselves. Even then, they will come into work only if they “feel like it”. When tough economic times occur of course these people aren’t affect because they have money in a bank account that is secure in their name. The government completely protects these people and lets impoverished families struggle to just survive each day. Almost always are hard working individuals in today’s times never rewarded for their effort, but those who have a particular last name are.