The Road to Utopia

I can't help but feel that the common person is getting swallowed up in this country. The gap between rich and poor continues to broaden and the middle class is becoming closer and closer to joining the poor. Soon it may just be the haves and have-nots... the service sector and the give me service sector. Not at all the way a country should be run. Oh sure, the politicians (correction.. the Democrats) talk a good game and promise the moon (the Republicans don't give Jack about the people... just business and money). The Democrats hearts may be in the right place but capitalism gets in the way. Capitalism, by it's very natural demands greed... a economic system of gaining wealth by screwing the next guy. Cheat, lie, steal... everybody wants their little slice of the pie... your pie. You can't have some of anybody Else's pie though...Just try asking for a raise and see what happens. Everyone cries when there is talk of increasing taxes because in the current state of things we pay a lot of taxes on just about everything and get pretty much nothing for it... but what if we did? What if we had to pay upwards of 80% in taxes... but got most or all of our basic needs taken care of for it? The remaining 20% would be purely disposable income to improve upon the basics in the areas that you decided. Health care, transportation, housing, utilities, food, employment, clothing.. all taken care of by the higher tax so you don't have to worry about it, and neither would the poor, because their wouldn't be any.
Of course, this can't happen as long as we are still a group of states, counties and cities... each grabbing for that slice of pie... and each with it's own laws, etc.
If we got rid of the separate state's right idea, this country could have uniform laws, schools, hospitals and many other things. We COULD just become a nation.... let's call it AMERICA.