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So, in your worldview, no one should want to be a teacher. And if they do want to be a teacher, they should be penalized and mocked for it. And yet, everybody wants their children to have good teachers.
A flat tax is a regressive tax. 10% tax on someone making a million a year won't impact that person's standard of living at all. 10% tax on someone making 35,000/year will have a significant impact.
Nooooo. I think good teachers should be making 100,200, $500,000 or more a year, but that is not going to happen under our current disaster called the public education system. The point is when you penalize something you get less of it and when you reward it you get more of it.. Level playing field, the rules should be the same for everyone. You see, you're paradigm is, (it wont impact that persons standard of living at all). STOP RIGHT THERE!! Who decides that? Who gets to make that judgement call? When will it ever be high enough?
I feel it is a burden when I see how a portion of the money that I worked hard to earn go towards governmental pork projects and not towards making our country run efficiently. I guess you don't mind having a portion of your wages being misspent by our government especially as you live "comfortably". I think we all should pay 10% and with that, the "evil rich" that everyone is railing about will wind up paying most of the taxes.
Were you quite as bothered to see a portion of the money you worked hard to earn go towards subsidies for the oil companies? The war in Iraq? Subsidies for agribusiness? Tax cuts for the rich?
How does the "rich" deprive folks of making a living wage? What about those on welfare, how are the "rich" responsible for that. Gosh! You guys make no sense!
Newsflash: Most Americans work a full-time job. And many of them have to work a second job in order to make ends meet. Why? Because the full-time job doesn't pay them a living wage on which to raise a family. How, exactly, would Wal-Mart suffer from paying its workers a decent salary, with health benefits?
But you can pay MORE and ease the tax burden of those who don't live "comfortably". You don't need the government to coerce you to pay more now do you?
Stop being childish. I would be perfectly happy to pay MORE--if needed-- if I knew that those who HAVE MORE were paying their fair share. But they're not. Nobody WANTS to pay more taxes, so why would I pay more without being asked to do so? Childish.
Stop being childish. I would be perfectly happy to pay MORE--if needed-- if I knew that those who HAVE MORE were paying their fair share. But they're not. .
So please tell us in you're opinion what IS their fair share?
Why would I do that? I'll pay whatever I'm required to pay. It's not rocket science.
Until you wake up next year and learn that you are the "rich" Obama wants to tax.
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