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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
So, it would benefit you if you are taxed to buy poor people cars to lower your rusk of being car jacked. You would benefit by being taxed to buy televisions for the poor who brake into homes to steal them.
What percentage of your income would you be willing to pay?
Why are you using a strawman argument? It is a very lazy way to debate
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
Obviously, you didn't read the post I responded to, did you?
I did, and it made a valid point. Without redistribution, have nots will steal from haves rather than starve to death. Rather than argue the point, you used a strawman argument 😒
Your whole argument is bogus, because the 20,000 children a day that you say are dying from poverty are not in this country, and this discussion is basically about diverting wealth within this country.
The poorest people in the US are not even really living in poverty as compared to the rest of the world.
Lets solve our own problem before we try to tackle the rest of the worlds poverty stricken.
Yep, people are actually dying from malnutrition in other nations and we worry about people with cars, cable and a/c.
I did, and it made a valid point. Without redistribution, have nots will steal from haves rather than starve to death. Rather than argue the point, you used a strawman argument 😒
Yes, the poster did say that. And my response:
Quote:
Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
So, it would benefit you if you are taxed to buy poor people cars to lower your rusk of being car jacked. You would benefit by being taxed to buy televisions for the poor who brake into homes to steal them.
What percentage of your income would you be willing to pay?
as a nation we should have tax law that encourages earnings and productive behavior, but discourages wealth accumulation. Compare the following examples of highly-successful people :
Example #1, a surgeon might make $500,000 per year and a professional athlete might make $5,000,000 per year. These are earnings that represent productive behavior and ought to be encouraged by lower taxation.
compare this to example #2, someone who has accumulated $40,000,000 and now sits in a lawn chair while that money grows at 7% per year. Maybe they earned their money over the years, maybe they inherited it, but it doesn't really matter -- these accumulated capital returns are not earnings that represent productive behavior, they represent passive wealth accumulation.
Example #1 should be taxed lower than Example #2. People who are in the process of building wealth should be given a lower tax burden than people who've already accumulated it.
as a nation we should have tax law that encourages earnings and productive behavior, but discourages wealth accumulation
so for example #1, a surgeon might make $500,000 per year and a professional athlete might make $5,000,000 per year. These are earnings that represent productive behavior.
compare this to example #2, someone who has accumulated $40,000,000 through a lifetime of working (as a pro athlete or surgeon, maybe) and now sits in a lawn chair while that money grows at 7% per year. These are not earnings that represent productive behavior, they represent wealth accumulation.
Example #1 should be taxed lower than Example #2.
We should just have a VAT tax. The person sitting on his wealth already paid taxes earning it, or his parents did.
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