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Does vote from a top income earner not count as one vote, same as the non-taxpayer?
What does that have to do with the percentage of earned income paid? If a top earner pays 2% and the low income earner pays 20% of their income, that doesn't sound very equal to me and I am betting that 20% has a bigger effect on the low income earner.
See, for enough money you too can write your own laws!
That hardly sounds fair, that is a great example that money shouldn't be allowed to buy politicians and laws. It seems like a few right wingers on the site think it is one vote per dollar.
What does that have to do with the percentage of earned income paid? If a top earner pays 2% and the low income earner pays 20% of their income, that doesn't sound very equal to me and I am betting that 20% has a bigger effect on the low income earner.
Who wouldn't want to be a top earner paying very little of the income to taxes and being able to afford to buy politicians and pay to write the laws that specifically favor wealth and people who are the wealthiest.
Obviously the ultra wealthy can afford to pay more. Even the average wealthy can afford to pay more.
The question is: Is it morally right to ask anyone to pay more until the Fed gets its spending under control? In my opinion raising taxes on anyone before you fix the problem only facilitates further waste.
Now our elected reps went through the motions of cutting spending, but made no real attempt to actually do so.
When they pass bills that allow spending on such things as bear DNA, or improving the flavor of endive they are saying these things are more important than reducing our debt or building infrastructure.
The tax inequality is the ability of the FED to impose greater taxes upon we the people, but not be held accountable for the billions in waste.
The top income pay 35% of all income taxes while the bottom pays very little if any. If you are middle class you pay more than the bottom. What about taxation inequality?
Yes, how silly of people not to think of the plight of the only group of people to actually come out better off from the Great Recession while everyone else struggles and slips.
Yes, how silly of people not to think of the plight of the only group of people to actually come out better off from the Great Recession while everyone else struggles and slips.
How silly not to think that when government increases expenses for people who can create jobs that they will not react by cutting spending elsewhere "like jobs".
How silly not to think that when government increases expenses for people who can create jobs that they will not react by cutting spending elsewhere "like jobs".
And clearly those people are interested in creating jobs, as evidenced by the fact that they're the only group to see their wealth increase during this economic downturn and yet still refuse to create jobs.
Just out of curiosity, how much wealth has to be concentrated among them before they'll actually create some good jobs? Do you have some kind of magic number I could work with?
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