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Kind of a theoretical question that must be asked in lieu of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this week. If the rich have so much money to give that they needed the high court to allow them to give even more money to political campaigns, they should be able to afford to pay higher taxes, right?
Yes, they do. Giving money directly to politicians allows the money to go where they want it. Taxes are supposed to benefit everyone, control and distribution of tax money is much harder to control.
Completely backwards. The states having a voice in the Senate was there to give the States equal protection from the federal government and to limit its size. The 17th amendment removed the states voice at the federal level and with that removal, came federal mandates and removal of states ability to legislate itself.
Except it didn't work that way at all and you know it. Do you understand why the 17th Amendment was enacted? Do you care?
Kind of a theoretical question that must be asked in lieu of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this week. If the rich have so much money to give that they needed the high court to allow them to give even more money to political campaigns, they should be able to afford to pay higher taxes, right?
The top 10% of income earners paid 71% of the taxes in 2010. Exactly how much more would you like to tilt the table?
Kind of a theoretical question that must be asked in lieu of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this week. If the rich have so much money to give that they needed the high court to allow them to give even more money to political campaigns, they should be able to afford to pay higher taxes, right?
Just because they can afford more, doesn't mean they should have to pay more. By that theory, if you can afford to go on vacation or donate a few bucks to the PTA, then you can afford to pay more in taxes. It is no different, except now we are talking about you as opposed to someone else.
Kind of a theoretical question that must be asked in lieu of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this week. If the rich have so much money to give that they needed the high court to allow them to give even more money to political campaigns, they should be able to afford to pay higher taxes, right?
We had a very prosperous country when tax-rates on upper incomes were higher. Since then, the rich got richer and everyone else has lost ground or is stagnant.
American has historically been a nation that pioneered very high taxes on the rich to foster the American egalitarian ideal and went along with fear of creating a hereditary aristocracy.
Conservatives, with their modern notion that redistribution and “penalizing success” is un-American is completely at odds with our country’s actual history. During the Progressive Era, it was commonplace and widely accepted to support high taxes on the rich specifically in order to keep the rich from getting richer.
High taxes on the wealthy coupled with redistribution are very much American ideals.
The income tax is a relatively recent phenomena in the US. And rates were initially very low.
The time when you think the US was very prosperous is also a time of rampant racisim, sexism, homophobia, and otherwise blatant discrimination. If the picture of prosperity is that time period, when marginal tax rates were higher, then all the other things that were part of the general thinking during the Progressive Period must be good too, right? Or do you pick and choose the things you like and believe in?
Amazing what some people will come up with to steal your money for themselves.
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