The crisis came: Americans Chou Fu?
February 9th, 2010
The recent headlines are full of populist attacks on the rich words.
From the president Barack Obama (Obama) denounced the greed of bankers, “shameless”, to 50 million in salary cap corporate executives, to the former chief executive John Thain, Merrill Lynch (John Thain) 35,000 U.S. dollars in the toilet, from an article news point of view, Americans seem to abandon the long history of wealth esteem, and become more like about tsarist Russia in 1917.
But Americans are now really hate the rich? Or have other reasons?
Americans never open any interest in class conflict. Indeed, the United States have appeared Hui Long (Huey Long) hold high the “share the wealth” banner such as populism, but they are rarely given the U.S. a “common prosperity” what a lasting change in the culture.
Conservatives has long held that Americans do not like the class conflict, because they hope that one day I could be rich. Liberals argue that Americans just did not understand how the U.S. economy has become the inequalities and injustices; so long as they know what they have been deceived, it will take to the streets to protest the U.S. middle class, if not to take violent actions against him.
However, the recent survey, the attitude of the rich Americans are not so black and white. According to political scientist Page (Benjamin Page) and Jacob (Lawrence Jacobs) conducted a survey, Americans want wealth, but supported the tax increase on the wealthy to create more opportunities for other people thought. More than three-quarters of respondents said they agree, “started with nothing and become rich through hard work” is possible.
Half of the respondents said that a large gap between the incomes of Americans; two-thirds of respondents believed that wealth should be distributed more evenly; but most people do not agree with “closing the gap is the government’s duty” at all. (At the same time, about half of the respondents believe that the rich should pay a higher proportion of income tax.) In other words, Americans understand that the free market, knowledge-based economy needs the wealth gap, but they think that this gap should be adopted tax policy to be adjusted. Page and Jacob will be in the forthcoming publication of “class war?” A book to publish their research. They said that Americans can be marked with “conservative egalitarians” label. They support the creation of wealth, but will not affect the broader opportunities.
Of course, the two studies was in 2007
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