Fair share means cutting taxes on the poor and making all rich people ineligibe for tax cuts so everyone pays a flat percentage except those who can't pay at all.
The blanket idea that rich people don’t like to help poor people isn’t really true either. It’s a mixed bag. What’s important to me isn’t partisanship, but the reality that we live in a country with a diversity of opinions and we need to constantly balance the system to include all of them. I mean, to greater or lesser degrees. The extremists on both sides are often the noisiest, so they get more coverage in the news because the business model of MSM is “outrage” based.
The truly poor don’t really pay taxes. I mean, they pay sales taxes, and property taxes, and they pay more for goods and services when countries get into the tariff battles with each other, all that.
Let’s hope “Anglo-Saxon” capitalism was a typo. Beyond that, I guess the rational people will be prying it from your cold dead hands. It’s hard to imagine for any one person to consider there are millions of people who are just as smart or smarter than they are, and are just as moral and driven by good character as they are too. But.. for almost everyone it’s true. Your idea of freedom is selfish, and doesn’t work on a large scale. But you’ll slowly see that as the world goes more and more global. That’s actually happening right now, and reversing it or throwing peanuts at the mechanism won’t do anything but stall the inevitable. I wish you luck. If you were my neighbor I’d still let you borrow my lawn mower, or help you move your couch into your house.
The government is ALL of us in a democratic republic, just like a social democracy would be ALL of us. It does no good to play semantics with it.
Why is 50% the cut off line? Just curious why that gets you riled up. If I take what I spend on health insurance (family of 5, no health problems) and compare it to my good friend in Germany, the difference is staggering. He actually pays LESS of his hard earned money for superior medical coverage, child care, college, paid employer leave, maternity leave. The only real difference is I pay a middleman who extracts an exorbitant amount of profit in the middle, and gives worse products and services, with worse outcomes for the money.
Nothing wrong with limits, but the reality for you is probably self-fulfilling. You’re going to have a hard time with the changes coming. Seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face to me. But, it’s a free country (so is every other democratic socialist country in Europe.)
You’d be very surprised if you met me. And, yes, both you and I have to live with people we don’t agree with. We can do it the hard way or the easy way.
Thanks for your input. I’ll let my government bureaucrat know you’re not happy. Oh, btw, will you be turning in your guns when they become illegal, or will it be the “cold dead hands thing?” I’m asking for an FBI agent friend
When almost every single Republican who speaks publicly is a rattlesnake worshiper regardless of his/her political ideologies, I cannot accept any so-called "moderate" or "slightly conservative" voters in the top tax bracket as being any less extreme in hating the idea of helping very poor Americans than those white supremacists who waste time calling all factual reports "fake news" and openly condone violence.
wrong: many people do nothing to create wealth
where do you come up with this bullshit? BTW rich conservatives are more likely to contribute to charity than rich lefties.
If rich conservatives did not hate helping poor people, they would not complain about being forced to do it via taxation.
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
ECON 101.... corporations don't pay taxes, they pass them to the consumer. You know, you and me.
well if you want to believe myths, that's your business but it is a fable =or perhaps you only know rich Liberals because it is they who don't help the poor
Producers who can't pass along costs of doing business eventually go under, or move to a location where the costs, in this case taxes, are more favorable. So the costs eventually get passed along. That's ECON 101. Same thing for tariffs; government gets a windfall, but the consumer pays higher prices. We're seeing that in action currently with lumber prices, which now carry a 20% tariff on Canadian lumber. Be careful what you wish for.
