It is SPENDING stupid, not taxes.
While the tax system is certainly not efficient and could be restructured, until they control spending and debt and stupid policies, we will continue to have economic problems.
Just look at policies that have contributed to the welfare state that have destroyed families, the loss of manufacturing jobs, lack of energy production by stopping the drilling, preventing nuclear power and over regulation of coal, etc.
2010 was the first step, but we need to eliminate/ minimize the Liberal Progressive policy and regulation.
I wonder if this author means the 1% of the population that pays 40% of ALL TAXES
yeah... that’s ‘fair’
Foreclosure process ‘must be fixed,’ Treasury official says
By Brady Dennis
A top Treasury Department official said Tuesday that federal investigators looking into problems with mortgage foreclosures throughout the country have found widespread and “inexcusable” breakdowns in basic controls in the foreclosure process.
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Americans (and the planet, frankly) will continue sliding toward deeper barbarity until we can universally and genuinely state this phrase out loud:
"I don't care how much you make. It's none of my business, or anyone else's".
Until then, we're a race of retarded cannibals.
Exactly. It really annoys me when they call SS an “entitlement,” because I have been paying into it as a benefit plan all of my life. In fact, I’m self employed, so for the last 20 years, I have been paying 16+% of my gross income into it. And now I’m supposed to feel guilty about expecting to get something back?
Congress squandered this money. If they had invested it, we’d have a huge retirement fund. But they put it into the general fund and burned through it. And now the payors are supposed to feel guilty??? Gimme a break.
tih has stated elsewhere that economies have a way of rolling on; what changes is the demographic makeup of the "winners and losers," and this is the consequence of politics.
Redistributionists always force the middle class into "have-not" status, increasing that class while concentrating wealth into ever fewer and more compliant hands.
The author only thinks he was being clever.
Notice how NOT taking some of your income has now become a "benefit."
Apparently all of your money is the government's and they grant you the "benefit" of keeping some of it.
Merry Christmas. And while I'm on the subject, this is a good time to tell Alan Blinder to take a hike.
I'm sick up to here with the "have nots."