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Quote: QUOTE: also, whatever a minimum-wage earner would be paying in taxes would be a pittance compared to what these people are holding back.
Quote: Whatever they pay in taxes Sophie, they pay one hell of a lot more percentage-wise than do the rich; but you had to know that-right?
Ed, i'm the one who started this topic, about the rich having $$$ they don't pay taxes on. Remember?
Quote: if your neighbor wasn't paying taxes, wouldn't you consider that a situation that needed to be rectified?
Still, the topic is taxpayers. Rich or not, my on topic comments had to do with those who never paid taxes, yet are eligible for substantial government benefits.
Quote: Don't know how it works over there
ed, i am from Over Here, Wal-mart and all. (tho i still don't do Wal-mart)
Quote: but there are nearly 35 million American women who never worked one day of their lives
Quote: WHAAAAAAAAT???????????????????????
don't make me go there ed. i mean it. never worked???? are you off your nut?????????
Make you go where; and, are you (nuts)?
35 million is a conservative number. You overlooked the built-in caveat: I said American women, since I know nothing of other labor markets, then or now.
Before WW2, a huge majority of AMERICAN housewives stayed home while their husbands went to work.
When WW2 started, the men were gone and the women were needed to fill defense jobs.
It was only then when American women began working outside the home in substantial numbers.
Even during WW2, tens of millions of women got married right out of high school and stayed home. But you knew that.
Next, the American workforce had few industrial jobs for women before WW2, which further hampered their being employed.
Worse, the jobs that were available were usually unskilled, low-paying "women's" work. But you knew that too.
Even worse for women, the American workforce before WW1 and subsequent, was a mostly (white) male workforce, with little room for women or people of color.
It took massive amounts of legislation to undo that "Good old boys- "Affirmative Action" club.
Women were a substantial part of the WW2 workforce, but when the men came back, most of the women returned to the hearth, many never to work again.
"Single mothers", what there were of them-worked, as did widows. Single women worked at the jobs allowed them. However "back in the days", the single woman spent much of her time hunting a husband and being successful in her pursuit, stayed home afterwards; but you knew that.
Quote: do you expect these women to throw themselves on the pyre when their husbands pass away?
Actually, it was when the husband died she had to go to work to support the family.
And of those who did and because they generally had few if no job skills, they had to take low-paying jobs, impoverishing the family.
So yes, tens of millions of (American) women got married and became stay-at-home housewives, never having worked a day outside the home..
That trend began before our Pioneer days and lasted until WW2.
You also overlooked the fact many men and women may have worked, but before Social Security became a reality.
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