Why does the left want the poor to envy the rich?
154212
because they get elected by playing on the fears of the poor, and showing how much more they "care".
193541
If you start from the idea that in an (albeit unrealistic) "fair" world, everyone would have equal money, then if some people are going to be richer, some people have to be poorer. For some people to have extreme wealth, others must live in extreme poverty.\n\nI don't have a problem with some people have more money than others - some people have better skills, more motivation, more luck, but the gap between poorest and richest is too great and growing all the time.\n\nif this is for a social science project, you should mention Marx, and some more modern Marxists, Socialism, social policies (taxation to achieve redistribution of wealth) etc, all the way through to the New Right
410702
because it's the elite that maintain power and they don't wan't to give it up.  It's a closed society and they want to keep it that way.  They are biased, judgmental people and they protect each other.  They don't want to deal with common folk like you and I.
713108
Wishful thinking. People don't care about the poor.$$$$$$.Greed.
509729
Because affluent people tend to socialize around activities, like sailing or tennis, and can afford to travel and pay for those activites, while people with modest incomes make do with the people around them.\n\nNeither is better than the other - the poorer people have a greater sense of community in the immediate nearby sense, while the affluent people combine their business networking in with things they like to do, because they can afford to.\n\nAt least, that's the way I see it.
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I bet if you took a couple of starving ppl and sat them on the greedy person's doorstep, a lot of the greedy ones would shape up in a hurry. (At least temporarily.) They can get away with it now because the starving ones are total strangers and probably live far away. I guess they figure out of sight, out of mind. And the rich have NO freakin clue what it's like to be poor.
1135401
By some of the answers they skipped school can't read nor understand. Facts as you state the Richer pay a higher percentage, the poor pay none in fact they get a rebate not their money the richer give them for not earning enough the liberal way its the money us tax payers pay and I work for it they don't,  most. The ones that try I don't mind helping but not forever. You are not my dependent
885358
No. Whereas the wealthy keep the country going with their exobitant taxes they also increase the costs for everyone else to live. How can anyone justify having so much money when fellow human beings are starving?
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bc some people are born into a family of wealth or a family who doesnt care if they work and support their lazy butts and other people work all their lives bc they dont have a choice they need money or they enjoying working
45468
Hate is always bad.  Jesus said to love the poor and show mercy to them, and help them.  Rich people are not God.
596028
The easiest way I can explain this to you is the way my father taught me.\nHe taught all of his children there was NOTHING wrong with wanting something LIKE what someone else had, but we must NEVER want what they have.\nBy teaching it that way, we learned NOT to be jealous of other people or their possessions.\nSo, in answer to your question, I guess no one took the time or caring to teach them NOT to be jealous or envious.
1003741
Not all wealthy people are greedy. Many people became wealthy by helping other people, and some of the wealthiest people in the world give more money away than you and I could ever dream of.  For you to assume people are greedy because they are wealthy is really an unhealthy stereotype.
574748
Most of those supporting Bush are upper middle class or rich elite who do not feel the effects of his policies in a negative way. They continue to benefit from them in fact. At the same time they blame those who are suffering from the effects of the policies and claim they are lazy, don't work hard enough, or made poor personal choices and deserve what they get. These people do not usually have sons or daughters serving in the military or sacrafice in any way. Instead they complain about paying taxes to help those who are impoverished while they continue to get richer off the labor of the working poor or the illegal immigrants who work for minimum wage or less.
711972
Republicans think that rich people don't have enough money, and poor people have too much money.\n\nDemocrats think the opposite.
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Because the democrats have successfully pitched themselves as a party concerned about the poor.  I admit to being cynical, I think many democrat leaders prefer to keep the poor poor (by addicting them to welfare and making them think they can't survive without it because of racism or whatever) so they have a steady source of votes.  So they have no incentive to work on getting them off of welfare and in to the workforce. \n\nI'm a republican which is probably no surprise.
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Because our government isn't about alleviating poverty.  Its about getting government off the backs of the rich.
770100
Because it makes it easier for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer.  How are the middle and lower class supposed to compete with the 'slave' labor in China?  Hello free trade, good-bye middle class.