The rich, where does the money come from? Is there some deep pool of money they have access to because they are luckier, smarter (in the case of Trump) or just more industrious than the rest of us? Just how deep is this pool and where is it?
Check your pockets. Yep, that’s it. I know the old saying about the government having its hands deep in the pockets of the people, but they’re amateurs and besides most of that money goes directly back to you in Social Security, Medicare, Roads etc. anyway. The waste is almost exclusively government money that goes to private companies that are gouging you indirectly.
That’s right you and I are the pool. Why do you think they hate unions, fair pay, minimum wages and such? Why do you think they moved your job overseas? You were keeping too much of your money. They had to scheme a way to get you to cough it up.
I was in a meeting a couple of years ago (I work for a 20 billion dollar a year company). There was some discussion about a very large and respected company that was going out of business. Because this was a meeting that included vice presidents and financial officers they were discussing how they could have all been millionaires had they known in advance and handled the stocks correctly. I said “Hey I can’t afford any more millionaires.” They all looked at me, some with amused sympathy for the uninitiated outsider, some with confusion. I said “Where do you think it comes from?”
The subject changed quickly. I showed them the new formula for investment purchasing that I had developed (the reason for the meeting). And we all went our merry ways.