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To those of you slavish rich supporters, eat it! Look at the poll. Most of us want to tax the rich. Period. Raise the damn taxes on them already. Cry me a river rich bastard. You pay 50 percent on the highest income bracket.. Don't like it? Move to China. See if they will give you a better rate.
I think it would be better for those of you with socialist tendencies are the ones who need to move to what you feel is a better place.
NOBODY should place a claim on that much of someone else's earnings.
Don't like it? Start a SUCCESSFUL business and pay yourself.
Of course they want to cut taxes on the rich. Who do you think they work for? The whole social conservative, fight gay marriage, touchdown for Jesus, Tea Party patriot stuff is just carnival barking.
How will taxing some rich guy more improve your life?
It is one of the tools to turn the corner on the deficit. You cannot solve the problem with cuts alone. Cuts will only tank the economy again.
As you guys like to say You cannot tax your way out, you also cannot cut your way out. A combined, tax/cuts is the only fix. Reagun's choke the beast didn't work, it only destroyed our economy.
Cutting to balance the budget will only kick federal workers and contractors out of work. Hardly what we need at this time, since federal workers, on average are solidly middle class, and well above average in education and skill. If they were forced to sell their homes en masse, it would certainly not help the housing market or construction fields. It will just pour gasoline on the economic housefire and further shaft the out of work stiffs who have been trying to get back on base for a couple years.
Taxing the rich at higher levels is a way to patch the wholes. The wealthy in America are not overtaxed relative to just about any other country in the world, and even this country for much of the last century. People here are so parroting rightwing talking points that they cannot see that THEY RICH CAN AFFORD TO HELP. No one else can. Social conservatives have become like the Sheriff of Nottingham, fighting to defend the spoils of kings and princes while the people starve.
Last edited by Fiddlehead; 12-29-2011 at 01:13 AM..
To answer your own question, has given the rich tax breaks since Reagen worked before or has it provided a wider wealth gap between rich and poor? Voodoo economics anyone?
When Clinton gave the wealthy a tax break by lowering the investment tax from 28 to 20 percent, it helped the economy.
To those of you slavish rich supporters, eat it! Look at the poll. Most of us want to tax the rich. Period. Raise the damn taxes on them already. Cry me a river rich bastard. You pay 50 percent on the highest income bracket.. Don't like it? Move to China. See if they will give you a better rate.
You mean move their businesses out of the US because other countries offer better incentives, including lower taxes? They already have.
The GOP has been purchased by the 1% and they're doing as they're told.
it looks like the GOP isn't the only party purchased by the 1%. more on corzine ,crooks, and MF global (washington times):
Yet as the House and Senate interrogated Bradley I. Abelow and other top executives at MF Global Holdings Ltd., lawmakers did not mention Mr. Abelow’s role as a financial adviser for the Environmental Protection Agency, which as of Tuesday listed him as the chairman of its financial advisory board.
Even as he finds himself the public face of a bankruptcy and admitted to lawmakers that he had no idea how client funds disappeared, Congress and the administration have voiced no public concern about Mr. Abelow’s role advising the $8.6 billion government agency on its finances.
“EPA relying on Wall Street for financial guidance is like the blind leading the blind,” said Jeff Ruch, president of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington.
“In Abelow, you have a Wall Street executive who just presided over the disappearance of $1 billion in investor funds purporting to help guide federal infrastructure financing.”
of course, no surprise coming from an administration that went to corzine for advice on how to run the country.
To those of you slavish rich supporters, eat it! Look at the poll. Most of us want to tax the rich. Period. Raise the damn taxes on them already. Cry me a river rich bastard. You pay 50 percent on the highest income bracket.. Don't like it? Move to China. See if they will give you a better rate.
Of course people want to raise the taxes on the rich. If you polled 2000 people who liked boating but didnt own boats , 75% would say they should have a right to use other peoples boats.
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