Paying your "Fair Share."

[Ishmael]

"thank you sir, hit me again."


"But, but Ishmael........the government can't survive on less." They need even more, look at all the 'good' they do!

*shakes head*

Ishmael

 

[MistressMoira]

This reminds me to go into the revenue office to sort my taxes. Ugh.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

Ismale's article is a good example of lying through statistics. *nods*

In particular, why should we care about averages rather than medians? And what does the comparison look like when broken down by income?

 

[Saint Peter]

It is time to ditch Social Security.

Think of all the tax dollars that would save!

 

[Sean]

Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

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The toniest of company.

What's my old truism? Oh yeah, I remember!

When you think that it is okay to take a more fair share of taxes from those above your station in life, then you had better be in the 49% because everyone below your station in life will be perfectly comfortable following your example and make sure that you sure as hell pay your "fair" share.

(Hell, if you're in the 49th percentile, the 1% will probably probably add their wealth and influence to those below you to loot you instead of themselves. Lago! That's exactly what we have now! Government, in its hunt for largess has compassion only for those with hands out for handouts.)

You know who wants their fair share more than anyone else?

Look to Chicago and the big cities of California. These places are loaded with public sector employees who are more than willing to slash basic services to their communities in order to make share that the state/local government continues to lavish ample pay, benefits and pensions upon them and they will use their wealth (as political contributions to the people who pay them) to fight tooth, nail and claw to keep the middle class funding their largess.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

^ Bragging about your ignore list, eh chubby? That's Ms Ann level of narcissism.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Another response to the OP

So what?



In return we get excellent infrastructure, schools and a military that mirrors the desires of the Social Justice crowd's desire to mainstream each and every aberrant behavior known to man from the public square to the military.




That makes us all "richer" in the intangibles.

However, we are still short on trashcans as Greek Week showed us. For lack of a trashcan, a banana was tossed. For lack of common sense, the week was tossed. For lack of proper funding, black snowflakes were reduced to freaking tears because they were confronted by racism and "white superiority" in one of their "safe places."

 

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Still trying to pretend that you're not King Oreo???

 

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Still trying to pretend that you're not King Oreo???

Hey, dumbfuck, why don't you compare notes with Que and hsnh about whether I'm Orfeo.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's it Oreo.


It's the OCD that outs you more than anything else.

And yes, I'm the guy who reported you relentlessly for about two weeks for violating the c&p rues...



Management finally had to take action in order to appear to be "impartial."

 

[hsnh]

When you think that it is okay to take a more fair share of taxes from those above your station in life, then you had better be in the 49% because everyone below your station in life will be perfectly comfortable following your example and make sure that you sure as hell pay your "fair" share.

Look to Chicago and the big cities of California. These places are loaded with public sector employees who are more than willing to slash basic services to their communities in order to make share that the state/local government continues to lavish ample pay, benefits and pensions upon them and they will use their wealth (as political contributions to the people who pay them) to fight tooth, nail and claw to keep the middle class funding their largess.

I obviously don't know much about economics.

And I agree with most of your assertion.
Like Obamacare was criticized also because it took money from the upper middle class (miliionaires).

But what about multi - billionaires? Those are the ones that most people winge about, not the upper middle class.
They are dissatisfied with a system that allowed so many people to become multi- billionaires.
Not only because of the disparity, but because with such wealth comes unchecked power. Like ability to buy elections or what Soros does.

How can one put checks and balances in place so that the incredibly rich don't get even richer, and the poor even more poor?

 

[Freudian_Slit]

I obviously don't know much about anything, but I'm going to give my daft, ill-informed opinion anyway, with the hope I'll get the attention of my secret love, AJ

Huh. A glimmer of self-awareness.

 

[ryan8558]

I obviously don't know much about economics.

And I agree with most of your assertion.
Like Obamacare was criticized also because it took money from the upper middle class (miliionaires).

But what about multi - billionaires? Those are the ones that most people winge about, not the upper middle class.
They are dissatisfied with a system that allowed so many people to become multi- billionaires.
Not only because of the disparity, but because with such wealth comes unchecked power. Like ability to buy elections or what Soros does.

How can one put checks and balances in place so that the incredibly rich don't get even richer, and the poor even more poor?

forgot the Kochs.

 

[hsnh]

forgot the Kochs.

Hah!

 

[ryan8558]

Soros on the left, Kochs on the right. Crushed in the middle with you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Okay, here's the deal.

The more you target the ultra-rich, they more they contribute to the political class in "protection money" (a Mafia reference). Most of them are no longer making their money form direct income and that's what the Progressive income tax targets and the one that is most often in the crosshairs of the economic illiterates. Even if they are not successful in keeping their income "safe," and they are engaged in any sort of business, they pass that cost on to their consumers. They are always going to make what they desire to make.


This is why I am such a proponent of the FairTax.org.

It has no winners and losers because it is transactional-based. A tax code that looks to pick winners and losers will only target losers...




If you have questions, keep asking them, because this is a favorite topic of mine.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Soros on the left, Kochs on the right. Crushed in the middle with you.

There are lists of where the wealthy rank.



The Left dominates the top end. The Kochs are way down on the list.

 

[water505]

That's it Oreo.


It's the OCD that outs you more than anything else.

And yes, I'm the guy who reported you relentlessly for about two weeks for violating the c&p rues...



Management finally had to take action in order to appear to be "impartial."

I almost choked on that last sentence.

I was reported and threatened with being banned for merely describing the repugnant, creepy shit TurdDownSouth says all the time. It's an unwritten Forum Rule that it's PERFECTLY acceptable for Blob to vomit the sickest stuff imaginable, but if you call him on it you will be banned.

World class stupidity on parade!

Laurel should be ashamed.