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I posted this elsewhere, but, people who make $25,000 a year are taxed around $4,000 (maybe off a few).
People who make $400,000 a year pay $140,000 in taxes.
Originally Posted by my54fordI'm sorry you got the impression that I'm still in high school, I only have a high school degree.
I dropped out of college because I realised I don't need a school to tell me what to think, since I'm perfectly able to find out by myself how to think. I don't need any degree to build up experience, nor do I need a classroom to learn. I learn 24/7 (except when I'm sleeping). I also learn from everyone and not just my teachers or college professors.
I also don't need to be financially rich to get myself an education or to learn from experience.
Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus (1990)
What some people here fail to realise is that individuals who became rich, usually did so by hard work, and more importantly, they SPEND it. Sure, they buy the higher priced items, but people need to make those higher priced items, transport them, repair and maintain them...
I'm glad we have rich people because they build new buildings, employing those in the steel industries, BMW and exotic car companies, yacht builders, high priced tvs etc.
Imagine if no one could afford HDTV's, or even DVD players.. without the rich splurging on this technology, it would not have become affordable for the rest of is.. Oooh those rude greedy rich people!!
So the wealthy man is on welfare? Because your wealthy man used those words...he reaps where he has not sown.
He sits back and collects a check based on OTHER people's work.
It's amusing that you think people who are successful sit back and let everyone else do the work while they sip on cocktails and collect the benefits. In most cases they busted their asses to get where they are and invested their time and money wisely.
Now the people who sit on their asses and collect a welfare check based upon my work... those are the ones reaping benefits from MY work.
You will NEED a HDTV player in less then a year if you plan to watch tv.. Other then that, I would presume you use a computer...
It's not mine...so if I didn't have it...I've survived for more than 30 years without one.
And why would I want to WATCH TV? I don't own a TV either. It's better to READ...books provided by the PUBLIC LIBRARY system.
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I also learn from everyone and not just my teachers or college professors.