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Originally Posted by Fly Boy Knight
I find it funny how the successful people who are able to strike it rich in this country are forced to pay more money in taxes than the people who are incapable of making as much money as them.
I find it funny how the unsuccessful people who aren't able to strike it rich in this country are forced to pay more money in taxes than the people who are capable of making more money than them.
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Originally Posted by Fly Boy Knight
The funnier part of that is that it seems to me that the only people who want taxes to be imposed more steeply on the rich than the not so rich are the people who are... not so rich!
The funnier part of that is that it seems to me that the only people who want taxes imposed more steeply on the working class than the rich are the people who are...rich!
By the way with the crazy money some people have the majority of you are not rich, no matter how much you may think you are. The list of filthy rich living humans beings is rather short, you can probably google it. The rich in this case is the corporations, since they are considered a
legal entity, a legal person
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Originally Posted by Fly Boy Knight
So, basically what these people are really saying is, "Since I suck, I have a moral right to take earnings from the non-sucky people."
Ahh, and now we have arrived at distribution of wealth.
Taxing is wealth distribution. So whether you tax the rich and give it to the poor, or tax the poor and give it to the rich, or however you'd like to put it, it is a distribution of wealth. I dont see how one can suggest its anymore right to tax the upper-middle/middle class and poor than to tax the top 2%.
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Originally Posted by Fly Boy Knight
Now, since income tax evasion is illegal, the government (ie the people) are literally TAKING/STEALING/ROBBING/LOOTING the profits made by the few successful in our country and placing it in the hands of those who apparently are "morally entitled" to it but have no ability to make that money for themselves.
Insider trading,corporate tax evasion, union busting, disappearing pensions, job out sourcing. Long list of bad business practices, and pure white collar crime. This isn't justification for the everyday people who bleed the system abusing it. Loopholes need to be closed, auditing, transparency and oversight need to be at an all time high. At all levels.
I'll just tell you what I told globe. Tax codes need to be adapted to the current climate. Neither extreme works all the time.
Even better would be a fair tax, one tax rate across the board.