The local newspaper comes up with an interesting look on the matter :
Because being a Senator and doing an election campaign costs very, very, very much money, the possibility is higher that rich people become Senators - because poor ones simply wouldn't be able to do an election campaign simply because of the horrendous costs.
And because the higher likeliness that richer persons actually succeed in election campaigns simply becuse of the horrendous costs - rthe result of this is that Senators are - in a tendency - rather rich people.
And this is the perfect explanation of something I have suspected for a long time now :
Why is the congress against taxing of richer people ?
Because these higher taxes would affect the Senators themselves !
They have a reason to be against taxes affecting higher incomes. A hard reason.
Because taxes of higher incomes would affect the Senators themselves - and that would mean losses. Decline of their income.
Now, the most cynical take on this is, that the American Congress has become a "Selbstbedienungsladen", s we say here, a "self-service shop".
The Washington Post and one Peter Schweizer are cited in the article, with Schweizer being cited (fropm a book he has apparingly written) that Senators often use their inside knowledge of upcoming laws (which THEY decide upon) to gain profits from speculations with stock.
If this is true (and I believe it could be very true, because in other nations there are similar things going on), then this reminds me of the structures of Mafia. Only working for themselves, exploiting holes in the system(s) for their favour(s), forgetting about the rest of the population.
It's always the same old story - and here history truly repeats itself - : The upper classes get into the legislation processes which they - slowly, but steadily - twist to work one day into their favour. Not only Berlusconi, or Mugabe or South American Dictators - now, even within out "western countries" ! - But - what makes the corruption within the so-called "western democracies" so much different is that they work much, much, much, much more silently - and implicitely ... Through Lobbyists, for example.
Because being a Senator and doing an election campaign costs very, very, very much money, the possibility is higher that rich people become Senators - because poor ones simply wouldn't be able to do an election campaign simply because of the horrendous costs.
And because the higher likeliness that richer persons actually succeed in election campaigns simply becuse of the horrendous costs - rthe result of this is that Senators are - in a tendency - rather rich people.
And this is the perfect explanation of something I have suspected for a long time now :
Why is the congress against taxing of richer people ?
Because these higher taxes would affect the Senators themselves !
They have a reason to be against taxes affecting higher incomes. A hard reason.
Because taxes of higher incomes would affect the Senators themselves - and that would mean losses. Decline of their income.
Now, the most cynical take on this is, that the American Congress has become a "Selbstbedienungsladen", s we say here, a "self-service shop".
The Washington Post and one Peter Schweizer are cited in the article, with Schweizer being cited (fropm a book he has apparingly written) that Senators often use their inside knowledge of upcoming laws (which THEY decide upon) to gain profits from speculations with stock.
If this is true (and I believe it could be very true, because in other nations there are similar things going on), then this reminds me of the structures of Mafia. Only working for themselves, exploiting holes in the system(s) for their favour(s), forgetting about the rest of the population.
It's always the same old story - and here history truly repeats itself - : The upper classes get into the legislation processes which they - slowly, but steadily - twist to work one day into their favour. Not only Berlusconi, or Mugabe or South American Dictators - now, even within out "western countries" ! - But - what makes the corruption within the so-called "western democracies" so much different is that they work much, much, much, much more silently - and implicitely ... Through Lobbyists, for example.
