LANGUAGE AND POLITICS

In a capitalist society, if we speak of the for tímate and the unfortunate or the advantaged and disadvantaged, the rich and the poor, the winners and the losers, we are actually revealing our fundamental if not always conscious belief not in the gifted and value of work, not in people being good at the game, but in luck. In a politics of partisanship, of warring parties, which George Washington warned would bring disaster to the nation and has recently brought at the least much legislative paralysis, it is said to be politically impossible to demand that everyone who earns anything be forced to pay something and even politically unfeasible to eliminate all the loopholes in the approximately 66,000 pages of the nation's tax code that favor half of the population that does pay income taxes and wants/needs tax breaks. If legislators who are backed by business make laws, then businessmen will be favored. [...]if the wealthy make capital gains as well as finance the election, then capital gains will be taxed at a lower rate, if at all - a form of income whether you call that unearned income or not.