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This is a serious question. Is the Republican Party positioning itself to be the tax-the-poor party? I'm asking because it seems like that's the logical next step after you launch a massive talking point campaign about how 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes (ie, federal income taxes, one tax of many). Why point out an "injustice" if you're not planning on correcting it?
I just can't believe this is about to happen. Am I reading this right? The Republican Party will be committing political suicide if it does this. They are going to become the raise-taxes party for 47 percent of Americans. How could they possibly think that's a winning strategy?
any body who thinks America has a poor problem are truly idiots. go to Mexico. don't need to travel to far to see the idiocy. every single human living in America is benefiting. why not be socialist about it and have everyone in America contribute.
any body who thinks America has a poor problem are truly idiots. go to Mexico. don't need to travel to far to see the idiocy. every single human living in America is benefiting. why not be socialist about it and have everyone in America contribute.
This is a serious question. Is the Republican Party positioning itself to be the tax-the-poor party? I'm asking because it seems like that's the logical next step after you launch a massive talking point campaign about how 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes (ie, federal income taxes, one tax of many). Why point out an "injustice" if you're not planning on correcting it?
I just can't believe this is about to happen. Am I reading this right? The Republican Party will be committing political suicide if it does this. They are going to become the raise-taxes party for 47 percent of Americans. How could they possibly think that's a winning strategy?
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Originally Posted by WestCobb
Alabama is a great example. In that state, income taxes reach deep down into the poverty line. A single mother who makes $4,500 a year will pay taxes on that income. It's so obscene that the Republican governor tried to fix it back in the early 2000s, but he couldn't convince the people who could afford to pay taxes that they should raise their rate a bit to give some relief to the truly destitute. Sad. But that's where we're at America. F*** YOU! I GOT MINE! This attitude isn't sustainable for any society.
So that even what little they have will be taken away from them...What else to expect from the former Party of Lincoln.
So that even what little they have will be taken away from them...What else to expect from the former Party of Lincoln.
its a "wanderful life" even those that had very little to give. gave to save the savings and loans. come on poor people lets save America!!!!!!!! you cant expect for someone else to foot the bill for you guys all the time. its time for you poor people to step up and do your part.
if I could find one!!! most homeless dont want to be help. unless ofcourse you want to infringe on their right!!! we can lock them up in homes!!!!
A lot of homeless people have a mental illness. Others you will not find walking the streets asking for money, but if you go to the local library during the daytime, there is a good chance that there is a homeless person there...especially in the winter time when it gets cold. Most of the shelters kick them out early in the morning.
If you want to find a homeless person, go to a shelter. The sad cases are the ones where their whole family is there.
A lot of homeless people have a mental illness. Others you will not find walking the streets asking for money, but if you go to the local library during the daytime, there is a good chance that there is a homeless person there...especially in the winter time when it gets cold. Most of the shelters kick them out early in the morning.
If you want to find a homeless person, go to a shelter. The sad cases are the ones where their whole family is there.
Republicans will finally start visiting homeless shelters when they realize there is a buck to be made by doing so. Just think of how much tax revenue there is to be made by taxing panhandling. Why should the "bums" get a free ride? They need to pay their "fair share" on every dollar they get from begging, right?
You're saying that all income should be taxed the same rate. So the first $10,000 someone makes should be taxed the same percentage as the third $1,000,000 one makes. Well, the reason why most have a problem with that is because the first $10,000 is going to go towards things like food for babies, medicine, etc. The third million is going to toward things like a yacht, vacation, nice second or third luxury home, etc.
It just seems wrong to most Americans to take a percentage of milk out of a baby's mouth. Don't think that there is a special rich guy tax rate for Bill Gates though. There's not. He pays the same great rate as the rest of us on his first $10,000.
Well of course because I have a dollar, doesn't mean it was taken from you. Of course a flat tax doesn't take anything away from anyone. I think this posters line of reasoning should be instructive to the rest of us. He seems to believe all money is the governments. They only decide what we can keep, and what we should use it for.
All his said. Your original premise, as you now admit, was wrong.
Well of course because I have a dollar, doesn't mean it was taken from you. Of course a flat tax doesn't take anything away from anyone. I think this posters line of reasoning should be instructive to the rest of us. He seems to believe all money is the governments. They only decide what we can keep, and what we should use it for.
All his said. Your original premise, as you now admit, was wrong.
Cheers!
That's not what I said at all, shore. I said that for tax purposes, the first $10,000 a person makes is treated differently than the third million one makes. The reason for this is simple. It is presumed that the first $10,000 is going to go toward necessities. The third million is going to go toward luxuries.
Again, every single American is taxed the exact same rate. They all get taxed the same percentage on the first $10,000, and they all get taxed the same percentage of the third million. Can we acknowledge this and drop the stupid talk about the "rich" being taxed unfairly now? They pay the same rates everyone else pays.
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