Buddy, I am a corporate lawyer for a Big Firm so I am paying my share of taxes and have no qualms about it. Just because you weren’t given opportunities and had to work hard (however relative that term may be), doesn’t mean it applies to every American out there. Just as there are free loaders of the welfare system, there are corrupt executives who earn millions at the expense of innocent taxpayers so please spare me how the poor just sit there and feed off of you. By the way if you leave, it won’t make much of a difference since YOU are only one of 300 million people living in the US so please don’t give yourself undue credit.
Also, the poorest of the poor have always had the free health care and food stamps. It’s the lower middle class that always gets screwed by the rich and powerful. They don’t even qualify for government subsidies yet have to pay taxes towards greedy banks and institutions who get into a mess coz of their own wrongdoing.
You can NOT look at YOUR personal experience and draw this overly broad assumption that poor, homeless or even lower middle class = lazy and the rich, successful = hardworking…you must be incredibly naive to make such an assumption.
I don’t know what your religion is but my religion definitely tells me to redistribute wealth as it’s the essence of a successful society. If you don’t do that, the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer thus further pushing society into a vicious circle of inequity, discrimination and racism.