The number 1 problem the world faces in your opinion?

Overpopulation of people with extreme wealth who use it for the oppression of others.
This could be helped by having a 100% absolute tax rate for anyone who makes more than $300,000,
similar to the tax rate during the FDR era, and a $0% tax rate for anyone who makes less than the median income.

Eliminate the large up front fees for utilities, and have the entire fee based 100% on consumption.
Thus the monthly fee for city utilities, electric, gas, internet would be based 100% on usage, not on spurious fees.
Anyone using 1/100th of the average for water, internet etc, would pay 1/100th of the fee, rather than paying much more.

Capt Lightning said:
Ah, but how do you know what rich person may be using their wealth to oppress others? If you started to tax them at 100%, they would simply go somewhere else (having renounced USA citizenship).
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@Capt Lightning All of them do, so good riddance to them. 😏
 

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Poor/ Evil Leaders.
Dictators and 'elected officials' both, generally have no knowledge of how to fix problems within the populations that they have control over 'or' they just don't give a damn who lives or dies. Thus all the problems noted in the posts above come from this lack of leadership...
 

Timewise 60+ said:
Poor/ Evil Leaders.
Dictators and 'elected officials' both, generally have no knowledge of how to fix problems within the populations that they have control over 'or' they just don't give a damn who lives or dies. Thus all the problems noted in the posts above come from this lack of leadership...
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And the voters that vote for them.
 
John cycling said:
Overpopulation of people with extreme wealth who use it for the oppression of others.
This could be helped by having a 100% absolute tax rate for anyone who makes more than $300,000,
similar to the tax rate during the FDR era, and a $0% tax rate for anyone who makes less than the median income.
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Ah, but how do you know what rich person may be using their wealth to oppress others? If you started to tax them at 100%, they would simply go somewhere else (having renounced USA citizenship).
 
Capt Lightning said:
Ah, but how do you know what rich person may be using their wealth to oppress others? If you started to tax them at 100%, they would simply go somewhere else (having renounced USA citizenship).
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Can you specifically tell us what your definition is of a 'rich person'...As I have grown older, I find this term difficult if not impossible to define. I can tell you that Billionaires are rich people, but when we talk about millionaires, it gets more difficult...
 
Too many Unknown Flying Objects invading too many airspaces. Worried of World War III...

In top of all the unknown spacecrafts already flying around. Geez Louise!
 
oldaunt said:
If it were not for 'rich people' there would be very few jobs and more would starve. Poor people rarely create job opportunities. And at least they have done SOMETHING to earn it, or they wouldn't have it.
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It's a myth that rich people are the "job creators." Most jobs are created by small businesses, and the owners of those establishments are usually not filthy rich.

We have CEOs making (not earning) 10 or 20 million dollars a year, or Wall Street crooks making even more. Vulture capitalists, such as Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, make money by eliminating workers.

We could take a look at some of the pop stars who are worth 100s of millions of dollars. How many jobs are they creating?

Next in line come overpaid athletes and actors. While they do create some jobs, it's nothing compared to how much their paid.
 
We could take a look at some of the pop stars who are worth 100s of millions of dollars. How many jobs are they creating?

Evidently you have NO idea how many roadies and techs it takes to make these people what they seem to be. Then there's the costume designers. Each "star" is supporting hundreds of people.

And while a small business may create a few dozen jobs, large companies create thousands. Compare your local butcher shop to something like Smithfield Pork.

Climb out of your narrow hatespace and really LOOK at the world.
 
Heartless dictators and dictator wannabes, showing no regard or feelings for democracies and freedom loving people, and instead want to invade countries, take away their freedoms, and make them live under the rule of Hitler like leaders. And leaders in a democracy who want to lie about losing elections so they can overturn a democracy, and force people to live under their rule, even though people don't want them as their leader. 👿😠😡
 
perChance said:
'We' being the voters - as mentioned in my post #54.
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Dictators by definition are not elected.

If an elected leader, is perceived to be acting like a dictator, they can be removed from office by the representatives/ voters who put them in office. If those individuals choose not to act, then it is their failure that empowers the leader. But they are not dictators. Dictators typically can have you shot of you openly disagree with them...they put themselves in power using military or militia to force them into power.
 
Probably the number one problem the world faces is stupid people in positions of authority. Stupidity is even more dangerous than evil.

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
 

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