A Touch Of Class Analysis

A Touch of Class
Carl l. Hagen once said, “Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and countries. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.” Class is a group of people usually large who have similar economic or social position in the society based on their wealth, property, income or power in the political and economic sphere. Hagen stereotypes upper class as those who have no regards for others suffering. Furthermore, form him law is made for people belonging to the middle and lower class, but not for the upper class. Bureaucrats and politicians, one of the parts of the upper class are often found breaking laws,
People belonging to the upper class earn a huge amount of money, with that income, they pay an equally high amount of taxes that help to fund development of our society. Income tax which is popularly referred to being a rich man’s tax is a major source of income for the government “1598 persons with incomes exceeding $100,000 paid approximately $11,600,000 or over 40 percentage of the aggregate tax collected in Wisconsin State” (Adams 234). Those 1598 people belonged to the top 1 percentage of the upper class of that state. This shows that money is predominantly pinched from the rich and is tried to equalize the distribution of wealth. This data illustrates how important are upper class people to the economic growth of the society and advancement of the nation. Furthermore, soccer players who play in England and earn high amount of money also contribute significantly to the government income. That amount of money collected could be used to generate new jobs for middle and lower class people “Premier League players paid $1.2 Billion in taxes in the 2013-2014 season” (Dubas-Fisher). It was calculated that the tax collected could pay the salaries of about 90 percentage of police officers in England and wales. Upper class people also generate source of income for people of different classes. Soccer players belong to upper class and are constantly in the forefront of media
Soccer is the most popular game throughout the world, about 209 countries are the official member of FIFA. In most of the nation, people eat and breathe football, it was so much of a craze that once it stopped a war “The two sides involved in the Nigerian civil war call a cease-fire to watch Pele and the Santos team play an exhibition game in Lagos” (Pelé Fast Facts). Pele was arguably the greatest player ever to grace soccer, Nigeria was afflicted by most destructive civil war. But when Pele and the team of soccer greats from Brazil visited Nigeria to play a match, both opposition’s immediately agreed to cease-fire so they could watch the legend in action. But recently, FIFA, football's world governing body, has been immersed with allegation of comprehensive corruption starting from summer 2015, when the US Department of Justice Charged many top executives. More than sixteen high ranking FIFA officials were related to this scandal. “US and South American sports marketing executives paid and agreed to pay $150m in bribes to obtain lucrative media and marketing rights to international football tournaments”( FIFA arrests). Money exchanged hands illegally and wrongfully, media deals were done illegally. Furthermore, Hosting 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament rights have been granted to Qatar through an operation that many supposed was corrupt. “The vote was taken and