Ah, you see, that is the thing. They are brainwashed by the media and advertising and marketing that if they keep buying these products they will be as happy as the people on the ads are. Nice shiney happy people with brite smiles and slender bodies. The type of people the average consumer wants to be or wants to meet. Hey if that woman talking about XYZ likes it, maybe I can buy XYZ and get women like her to like me? Or for the women, maybe if they bought XYZ, the guys will like her like the woman on the ad?

Anyway we have been programmed to consume and buy things we don't really need. But if the consumer was given more money back on tax rebates than the rich, the consumers would just spend it all over again and get bigger and better stuff or just more of the same stuff. The rich would just mostly horde it, or use it to move their companies to another country or use it to automate their US factories to get rid of more workers. Nothing says "Best Worker" than some robot working an assembly line. No breaks, no lunch, no pension, and no sick days! Plus no union to mess with and no benefits to pay!