Posted on 11/22/2019 11:23:27 AM PST by karpov
Oh, they stole it from the other 99%?
Remember Hillary saying the government will take your 401’s and the loan you back the money or some such - anyway the Dem’s want to kill the economy like FDR did during the Depression; FDR’s Folly - How FDR Deepened The Depression.
If everyone thought as clearly as you we would have a much smaller mess
There is a French anarchist from the 19th century, Proudhon, who is famous for declaring, “Property is theft!”
In short, if you have something — anything — you must have stolen it. Probably from me. So, hand it over.
Ignorance and/or lies. Most probably lies intended to foster economic jealousy as in "Look, the rich aren't doing enough to help you, but we will...with their money."
The big-government democrats want those revenues to finance investments??? Just where do they think these funds are now? Hint, they're not buried in mason jars in the back yard or stuffed in mattresses. That money they want to control is already hard at work. When someone invests in stocks it provides money for a company to stay competitive, possibly grow. Maybe those investments go into startups, creating jobs where there were none before.
The truth is money just sitting there is losing money because there are so many places it could be used for a decent return on investment. Hence the market, savvy investors, etc. don't just sit on money. It is out there working right now. What the democrats, aka leftist/fascists want is control of that money. They want to decide what to invest in, rather than the people who have earned it deciding what to do next. The democrats don't want to do what's best, what will generate the best return on investment and grow the economy. The democrats and leftists want to control that money so they can use it to implement their agenda. If investing in activity X is more likely to succeed than investing activity Y, but activity Y supports the leftist agenda, then they will invest in Y. That's all this is about, funding their agenda.
Why not let these groups work together directly, and eliminate the overhead of government acting as a middleman? No? Does that eliminate the point of the whole scam? :)
There is NOTHING to be gained by a perfectly even distribution of income in the long run. It simply doesn’t work because of the human psyche.
No, you lying sonsabitches. Your plan threatens to take at gunpoint.
If you want the uber wealthy to pay more, get rid of the corrupt tax code that rewards them for investing in ways that line the pockets of politicians and k-street lobbyists. Let them invest as they see fit, without having to pay virtual bribes to hide their income. Reduce the tax code from an encyclopedia to a pamphlet. Lower rates, no deductions, no credits.
My approach to taxes is this: If a person making $100,000 pays $10,000 in taxes a person making 10 times more, $I,000,000 should pay 10 times more in taxes or $100,000 in taxes.
But they are expected to pay more. Why? Because there are more voters who want richer people to pay more of the country's bills.
That is why the Dems (socialist ,communist) appeal of "Vote for me, I will get you someone elses money" is so successful with voters. -Tom
A flat tax solves the problem. Everyone pays it....everyone.
Taxation discourages investment. No investment, the goose that lays the golden eggs dies just as surely as butchering it to find out how the eggs are produced.
There really IS a “magic wand”, and reducing taxes is only one part of that interesting construct. The rest lies in decriminalizing initiative.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Desperate career Democrats don’t want people to learn how to fish. The want low-information voters to have to repeatedly vote for their fish.
On the other hand, new freedmen showed that the American Dream does not depend on someone else opening the doors for you.
Top Ten Slaves Who became Millionaires
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
In one sentence I count 3 lies.
First, they ain't "asking". Taxes, regardless of what the IRS says aren't voluntary. Second, "investments" give a return to the investor, at least that's the thought in making one. What's the return to the taxpayer?
Third, is the American dream to be dependent on the government? Not in my America. And the door is already open. All they have to do is walk through it, and most won't.
Face it, the Rats want ALL your money.
From the Heritage Foundation:
There will never be a tax that is good for the economy, but the flat tax moves the system much closer to where it should be-raising the revenues that government demands, but in the least destructive and least intrusive way possible.
Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D., is McKenna Senior Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
They will be assimilated. There will be no resistance.
Signed - The Democrat Party.
“Our plan asks the top 0.2% to invest more to open the doors of the American dream to others. “
Because all the lazy and useless welfare recipients are living that American Dream via handouts instead of working to make something of themselves....
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