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I am just a middle class peon and i would gladly pay another $100.00 or so in taxes to help get my country get in better shape. A $100.00 out of anyone's budget here on CD wouldn't hurt you a bit(those without jobs excepted). Some of these SILVER SPOON WHINERS just appall me!
How generous, considering each person owes $52,400.
There is nothing stopping you from writing that check. There is, thankfully, something stopping you from stealing hard earned money from other citizens in the name of "fairness" for redistribution.
As discussed many times before, it is not how much WE pay, but how much THEY spend. The budget needs a very sharp pair of scissors, and a politician with the actual courage to use them.
Exactly.
When they make an honest effort to consistently combat waste and fraud, when they have a serious plan to put entitlements on proper fiscal footing, and when they shift the paradigm to using efficiency and prudence rather than searching for ever-more sources of revenue, then I will take the subject seriously.
You don't lose weight by eating more pastries.
I love these calls for "just another $100." Good God, government has always needed more and always will no matter how much we give them.
I'd be happy if people like Romney paid the same rate I pay (28%) instead of half
Waving the BS flag. My top MARGINAL rate is 28%. But with deductions and exemptions my actual rate (federal income tax) is 9-10%. To have an actual tax rate of 28%, you'd have to be well up in the top marginal rate of (IIRC) 36%...and have no deductions. Or a very bad accountant.
Now...when you factor in local property taxes, sales taxes, state income tax, SS and Medicare tax, all that changes. I have no problem believing 28% combined (actually considerably more)...and I suspect Romney was presenting only federal income and cap gains taxes when he said 15%.
We don't have a revenue problem...we have a spending problem.
Per person spending in fixed (2005) $
Government Revenue, per capita, fixed (2005) $
Last edited by Toyman at Jewel Lake; 01-20-2012 at 10:45 AM..
That is probably the biggest truth you've ever said.
But I am going to teach you something in 5 minutes that you probably haven't learned your whole life. There are billionaires that run the country, many of them are from Saudi Arabia. In fact, more than 10% of america is owned by the Saudi's. The world is controlled by OIL and the FEDERAL RESERVE. It is not controlled by peons donating $100 to get a warm and fuzzy feeling (and gain bragging rights).
So if you prefer, send a check to Warren Buffet or Al-Waleed bin Talal for all we care. It is no different than sending it to the government.
School is over.
Take your superior attitude elsewhere. You know nothing of me. I can say you area liar and what will that mean. I am someone that actually cares and will try to help out rather than just bitching and acting superior as you are.
When the OP sends in his $1,038,576 to cover his share, I'll congragulate him.
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