Maybe those rich ***holes need so much money because they believe they or their children will

[applegrove]

live forever. And they need scarce healthcare and no public healthcare because the masses have to not live forever. They need the middle class to run out of money where health is concerned. I keep coming back to this. As much as I don't want it to be true. We think they want more money than they can ever spend but 'than they could ever spend' may be a faulty assumption on our parts. We assume life will end at 90. What if they are not assuming that. What if they are assuming hugely extended lives for those who can afford it only.

[Cleita]

1. I think they don't want affordable health care because they don't

want to share waiting rooms and hospital floors with the lower classes. This has been a problem in some countries with national health care where the rich have built private clinics and hospitals so they don't have to share with whom they perceive as their inferiors.

[PDJane]

2. They truly don't connect the dots.

There is nothing in their minds but accumulating money. It's a game of cash and control. It doesn't take into account the end of the game.

[Initech]

3. Their end game is Elysuim.

They get to live like kings in another world - literally, with an instant cure-all health care system, while we, the meek, literally inherit the earth.

[hfojvt]

4. I think you are looking at it wrong

The government is funded with INCOME taxes. Well who has most of the income?

It is NOT the 0.1% - the super duper rich, they only have 11.9%.
It is NOT the 1% - the super rich, they only have 22.8%

Even the top 5% "only" has 37% of the income. (all of the percentages are from IRS estimates from 2007).

The top 10% has 48%
and the top 25% has 68% (2006 estimate).

So, to summarize

top 1% - 23%
next 2-25% - 45% - collectively almost twice as much income as the top 1%.

THEY are the ones who will not pay more in taxes. Obama calls them part of the "middle class" and will not even consider increasing their taxes, even by a little bit.

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. I think you need to get a better grasp on the scale you're talking about.

If all of the Gates, or example, lived to be 1,000 they couldn't spend enough to go through it all.

To turn $10 into $1,000 is a feat, to turn $1M into $100M is inevitable.

[applegrove]

6. But they would be supporting all their kids, and grandkids, and great grandkids, and great great

grandkids, etc. etc. etc. They would be the start of an uber-privileged elite class. And to stay there takes money and the middle class dying off and getting out of the way so the uber elite can live forever. I'm speculating I know.