Lest You Think High Taxes Rob the Rich

September 5, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is labor, in honor of Labor Day, which falls on September 5.

Today’s poem is a Labor Day poem about the redistribution of wealth.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Lest you think high taxes rob the rich

And redistribute wealth down towards the poor,

Be aware: That very wealth from labor

Once flowed upwards towards those greedy hands.

Redistribution goes both ways, and which

Direction gets more flow is not unsure.

All the winds are in the wealthy’s favor,

Yielding only to fierce-fought demands.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/lesty2.html. For more Labor Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/labordaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Labor.

September 5: Lest You Think High Taxes Rob theRich