Another reason the uber wealthy NEED more tax cuts. (drugs, military, insurance)
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I happen to enjoy things like the Interstate System, the benefits of the Air Traffic Control System, a national defense system, etc., I'm not so blind as you to not realize those things must be paid for somehow.
I think we already send money to the government for those things.. try again
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Originally Posted by burdell
What I object to is paying more so the wealthy can pay less in order that they can knock down mansions to build ever bigger ones.
How are you paying more so Mrs Woods can knock down their home?
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Originally Posted by pghquest
I think we already send money to the government for those things.. try again
What are you talking about?
You said we GIVE money, I'm saying we pay to operate the government. Just HOW would you propiose we do otherwise?
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Originally Posted by pghquest
How are you paying more so Mrs Woods can knock down their home?
I well remember back in the late '60s the public release of Nelson Rockefeller's personal income tax record. At the time, as a barely above minimum wage worker, I paid more personal income tax one year than he did. That's what I'm talking about, the loopholes in the tax code.
I don't even watch sports, any sports, but I'm pretty sure that she demolished a couple of my cents in that house, the money that Tiger appropriated without my knowledge or consent. The rich have the ways to get your money. First they are #1 beneficiaries of the wage slavery system preying on our survival instincts (who in his right mind would do all those brain numbing & spirit killing jobs? Free men wouldn't do them, no way). Second, they "strategically" control bulk of society's resources (not only mineral) necessary for our survival and collect "rent" & interest, the thing they do the best. Third, whether I like it or not, they control society' resources & capital we foolishly allowed them to amass, the mythology being that they are the best at managing our natural wealth, so we let them to rob us of our time & natural/social resources in order to make us richer and to ensure our survival (quite slavish, but that's the way we build our society).
OK, you've got "resources" and all you can do is to emulate excesses of the "the Fall of Rome", guess what, being rich is not a right, it's not a thing you can do on your own in the wild, you can be rich up to the point where you are useless and destructive enough to undermine the oppressive system allowing you "to collect" and to become rich. I'll give you a hint nature is not as "generous" (and stupid) as humans are, it never gives one monkey 100000 times more of bamboo sprouts than it gives to 9 other monkeys. It doesn't matter how smart, hardworking and brutish a monkey gets.
Let's face it, "The Rich" at this point in human history have no clue what to do with all that public resource at their disposal in order to ensure that their slaves' (preferably comfortable) survival. Whatever self-serving thing they do, it's just one more step towards abyss that would take them and us. The corner stone of "free" market mythology is crumbling as we speak and that girl is just another example.
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You said we GIVE money, I'm saying we pay to operate the government. Just HOW would you propiose we do otherwise?
You dont give money to the government so it can operate? I didnt suggest we do it anyother way, I only posted the fact that we already do after you babbled some nonsense about things needing to be paid for.
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Originally Posted by burdell
I well remember back in the late '60s the public release of Nelson Rockefeller's personal income tax record. At the time, as a barely above minimum wage worker, I paid more personal income tax one year than he did. That's what I'm talking about, the loopholes in the tax code.
That doesnt respond at all to what I said..
How are you paying more so Mrs Woods can knock down their home?
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Originally Posted by burdell
So that of course justifies NOT taxing them, eh?
Sounds like BS to me.
What sounds like BS is you suggesting anyone said that they shouldnt be taxed
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