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All your questions have been answered, you just ignored the answers given
Can't honestly answer my questions can you?
History begs to differ:
I am not conviced FDR was against them. Here is the quote that going around the net these day:I do not worship gods.
I do not believe that a person is infallible. Even the Great and Glorious FDR was capable of one mistake in his twelve years. And that was his stance on public employee unions.
I do not worship gods.
I do not believe that a person is infallible. Even the Great and Glorious FDR was capable of one mistake in his twelve years. And that was his stance on public employee unions.
I do not worship gods.
I do not believe that a person is infallible. Even the Great and Glorious FDR was capable of one mistake in his twelve years. And that was his stance on public employee unions.
and neither did his daughter.
tax the living crap out of it.
That's BS, the top marginal rate when JFK became President was 91%. The top 1% pay more because the wealth has shifted to their favor since Reagan became president. Who are you kidding? The middle class is shink ing while the wealthy get richer, were're becoming a nation of oligarchs - the Koch Bros. for example.
your envy and hatred comes to the surface
why-he already paid lots of taxes while accumulating it
where do you get off wanting the government to confiscate the property that was legally earned?
This isn't about the increase in personal contributions to retirement and healthcare.
The Unions already agreed to that and have said so multiple times.
This is NOTHING but Union busting. Period. It's stripping workers' rights away from them and nothing more.
How can you not get that? Walker won't listen to anyone except his cheerleaders. Even some of his Republicans have said, "Let's take out this part of the bill and get back to work." And he refuses.
It's because - like a lot of Republicans - he doesn't believe that work should be paid for.
He also believe that he should have the right to sell off government property to anyone for any price he sees fit.
It's corruption. It's taking money away from working people so the rich can get richer and nothing more.
He strips rights from middle class workers - teachers, policemen & women, fire fighters, EMTs - and will sell public utilities to rich, private, investors (that taxpayers built and paid for) for less than they're worth.
That's what this bill is about. It's not about teachers not accepting pay freezes or paying more for healthcare. If it were, this wouldn't have become news; because there would've been no controversy - because the Unions already agreed to it.
You've posted how much you make. You believe one day, apparently, that you'll be one of the uberwealthy who will benefit from these policies. Hate to tell you, but it ain't gonna happen. Odds are very against you rising above your parents' station in this country.
You are calling these people "fat cats" when they make about $48,000 a year. Nationwide, public employees with college degrees make about $51,000. Walker, himself, makes more than twice that - but I don't see him offering up his salary.
He just wants to take it away from working people.
Not even you can defend public unions as I have seen here on this thread. Who pays the public union employees and who do the union leaders bargain with?
Are you saying you want his heirs to avoid paying their legal taxes?
I love the people who cannot understand the difference between top marginal rates (which has NOTHING to do with how progressive the tax system is) versus how much of the tax burden the top pays (which is the most important factor)
I am not conviced FDR was against them. Here is the quote that going around the net these day:
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
I don't find that statement conclusive proof he was against public unions.
"The Office of Tax Analysis of the United States Department of the Treasury summarized the (1981) tax changes as follows[2]:The IRS doesn't. Too bad you don't spend more time doing research before posting and making dumbass statements.
From the IRS
The top 1% of wage earners make 20% of all income and pay 38% of all taxes.
The top 5% of wage earners make 34.7% of all income and pay 58.7% of all taxes.
The top 10% of wage earners make 45.8% of all income and pay 69.9% of all taxes.
The bottom 50% make 12.8% of all income and pay 2.7% of all taxes.
Currently approximately 47% of all Americans pay nothing on their earnings of 50,000/year or less and actually get money back making their tax rate negative.
I would post the link but you don't pay any attention to links or anything else that refutes your opinions.
We may not all pay income tax - but you pay taxes. Lots of them, as Turtledude pointed out.
enlighten us with the facts then Turtle.
Please do.
We wait in great anticipation of the facts and figures from you.
those who go into the teaching major are generally the bottom of the barrel academically.
After the loopholes, deductions and tax breaks for the wealthy, our tax system is no longer progressive.
the figures have been posted here
the top 5% pay more of the FIT burden this decade than in any time in history
the top one percent (it went down slightly with the 08 recession)pay about 40% of the FIT-which is the most the top 1 percent has paid
(since the FIT applied to "everyone" (LOL)
Pbrauer's comment was idiotic
what I am saying is that the death tax ought to be abolished
from Turtle
Do you think you are the equal to the Pope in the vatican who can pontificate and his word is accepted as gospel Truth? So lets see you back up your mouth with the facts.
YOU CANNOT DO IT.
Because Paris Hilton will benefit from it. The dead person shouldn't give a ****. They're dead.
It's lazy children like Paris Hilton who benefit from it. Remeber, spouses don't ever pay it. Only children raised with gigantic silver spoons in their mouths pay it.
There is no death tax and you yourself admitted it in the ECONOMICS section. There is instead an ESTATE TAX on rich estates inherited by others.
The government has no right to that money the deceased paid the taxes before he died. That is double taxation
Who ever is on the other side of the bargaining table.
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