Clarification

[victor_szasz]

Class warefare has been an ongoing popular phrase to toss around in recent times. However, it seems limited as it's largely only being used in one particular direction. The rich want their taxes cut while the not so rich they'd rather pay more taxes. The rich accuse class warfare to any who tell them this is wrong, or suggests that they need to pay

Comments

[dicedork]

The word's history usually had more to do with the rich Preventing the poor from pulling themselves out of poverty (presumably at their expense), like busting up unions or predatory lending.

[jaelle_n_gilla]

I'm not so sure I get the full extent of the current use of the term, but I can tell you this

[jaelle_n_gilla]

Well, yes and no. Health care in Germany is funded by a mandatory health insurance, not taxes. Taxes go extra

[nanini]

I kind of agree, but it's the conservatives who usually become the drama queens, so even though it's really not a warfare they like to call it that. And they do it because then they are the victims. Also because it's centered on the rich, not both sides equally (i.e. not so much "poor people should pay more", but an active "we shouldn't pay more, we're being attacked").

This whole thing just makes me think "Where is your friend middle America now?"

[tediousandbrief]

I have heard some people running for President who sound like "poor people should pay more."

"Where is your friend middle America now?"

? Not getting the reference. What do you mean by that?

[nanini]

During the 2008 presidential campaign Middle America and Joe the Plumber were the heroes and everything was around that. They seem to have forgotten that.

[tediousandbrief]

I don't know that I'd put "Middle America" and "Joe the Plumber" together.

I don't think they've forgotten it, but they tend to try making it sound like "middle America" wants things like lower taxes on everyone, anti-abortion/gay marriage laws, etc. Not everyone in "middle America" (*waves*) would look up to or identify with "Joe the Plumber."