Just When Do The Rich Say: It's Time To Raise Our Taxes (wage, Clinton)

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by ATX Wahine

Are you incapable of conversing with others without childish name calling? It’s getting really, really old. I feel like I’m talking to a 16 year-old.

I'm just calling a mailbox a mailbox....

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

I'm just calling a mailbox a mailbox....

Call it what you like. You come across like a child, and it is grating. Very grating.

[FatBob96]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

You don't get to be the arbiter of what they spend their money on. You're not president nor in congress, you're just some guy, like myself

I'm not the arbiter of anything.

The Constitution is.

And if government had to put up everything they spend taxes on to constitutional muster, a lot of it would fail miserably.

[Grlzrl]

Originally Posted by TMSRetired

Because they are told over and over by Congress that the rich aren't "paying their fair share".
Tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.

This is so true.

[albert648]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Do you realize that would either massively reduce government revenue, or you would have to set such a high rate to get the current revenue that people making under $50k per year (over half the population) wouldn't have enough to live on....

Cut spending. Period. End of Story. And don't come back to me and tell me you can't. Figure it the hell out, like every other entity in the economy that manages to do far more with far less and operate at a surplus.

When the government proves itself capable of fiscal responsibility, we can talk about taxes.

[Raider Scott]

Time for the govt to learn to live with what they already get and stop bilking the successful people for more, when they spend too much.


You know...learn to live like the rest of us.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by albert648

Cut spending. Period. End of Story. And don't come back to me and tell me you can't. Figure it the hell out, like every other entity in the economy that manages to do far more with far less and operate at a surplus.

When the government proves itself capable of fiscal responsibility, we can put taxes on the table again.

Cutting spending would hurt too many people

[2nd trick op]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Cutting spending would hurt too many people

Yep! -- the sort of people who would vote for Stalin, if he ran as a Democrat.

[Raider Scott]

The solution for fixing this is not going to be pain free.


Cut the spending now...

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by 2nd trick op

Yep! -- the sort of people who would vote for Stalin, if he ran as a Democrat.

Actually one of the first thing to happen would be mass public sector job cuts. That would do wonders for the economy