Other definitions of poverty are whether people have specific basic necessities such as drinking water and sanitary means of disposing human waste. A substantial portion of poor countries is lacking some of these basic necessities. In general definitions of poverty will characterize poor people as those whose income falls below a percentage of the median income.

Equality is when everyone is given an equal opportunity to succeed, or everyone ends up with roughly equal circumstances. Robert Nozick argues that society has no obligation to provide equality. According to Nozick there are two ways to fix the problem: Worsen the situation of the favored individuals so that their opportunities are limited. Or we advocate policies to help

I noticed that I became a little edgy when bringing up the topics of inequality and taxation. It’s that I feel so passionate towards them. Now it seems a little unusual that I am a conservative, and I am working poor. My ideology is not set at where I am at now, it where I’m going that matters to me. I don’t plan to be an employee all my life, heck I want to stop working a forty-hour week within the next 5 years, and open my own corporation. I am determined to be in the top one percent of the country, so therefore I feel these things two topics will effect greatly in the future. I hope I wasn’t being too harsh in my views, I just feel very passionately toward them.

Regardless of these observations, crime has declined substantially in the U.S. during the 1990s. Conservatives attribute the drop in large part to high rates of incarceration. More aggressive policing has also helped in the decline of crime.

When it comes to crime I totally agree that your environment plays a big role in your moral or ethical views, or a lack their of. Statistics show that children of criminals have a tendency to become criminals themselves. I feel that your relationship with your family determines what kind of person you will become when you get older. I also agree that body type & IQ scores plays a role in your propensity to be a criminal. I remember in school the bully was always the biggest and most unintelligent student in school. With my experiences, if you were smarter then they were, they would pick on you to justify their imbalance of being smart.

The next topic on taxes really had me a little upset. I really dislike that the a good portion of the society is always saying, “The rich should pay more taxes, because they have more mon

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