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Disgusting. Where does this moral midget think jobs come from?
..it's for "the children".
or...
STFU
That is all.
Why should anyone want to contribute to that.
Moreover, if you read Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, you will see that as a result of the Sixteenth Amendment, the rich are already being taxed at far more than a fair rate. (Direct taxes were supposed to be per capita, not per income.)
It is time that people looked more closely at the whole question of what motivates contemporary tax policy. It is based more on jealousy, envy and resentment, than on fairness: "Progressive" Income Tax--Destructive Socialist Misnomer.
William Flax
We have a two-headed dragon. Those who are "poor" rely on the government for their well being through welfare, assistance, etc. AND anyone who are making money are not taxed.
Cut off both heads and return the Country to a place where good men, through their democratic REPUBLIC sought to provide a safety net for the "weak and the poor" as defined by Sumner in "The Forgotten Man."
And from that great essay...
"Now you know that "the poor and the weak" are continually put forward as objects of public interest and public obligation. In the appeals which are made, the terms "the poor" and "the weak" are used as if they were terms of exact definition. Except the pauper, that is to say, the man who cannot earn his living or pay his way, there is no possible definition of a poor man. Except a man who is incapacitated by vice or by physical infirmity, there is no definition of a weak man. The paupers and the physically incapacitated are an inevitable charge on society. About them no more need be said. But the weak who constantly arouse the pity of humanitarians and philanthropists are the shiftless, the imprudent, the negligent, the impractical, and the inefficient, or they are the idle, the intemperate, the extravagant, and the vicious. Now the troubles of these persons are constantly forced upon public attention, as if they and their interests deserved especial consideration, and a great portion of all organized and unorganized effort for the common welfare consists in attempts to relieve these classes of people. I do not wish to be understood now as saying that nothing ought to be done for these people by those who are stronger and wiser. That is not my point. What I want to do is to point out the thing which is overlooked and the error which is made ill all these charitable efforts. The notion is accepted as if it were not open to any question that if you help the inefficient and vicious you may gain something for society or you may not, but that you lose nothing. This is a complete mistake. Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man. The philanthropists and humanitarians have their minds all full of the wretched and miserable whose case appeals to compassion, attacks the sympathies, takes possession of the imagination, and excites the emotions. They push on towards the quickest and easiest remedies and they forget the real victim."
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Sumner.Forgotten.html
I will be the brave conservative! All you limo-socialist - chip in now! Do your duty to Hitler, Marx and Mao!
In one European country the rich pay 72%. In income tax, that is. All the other taxes are not included in that.
I bet you think THAT’s fair, huh?
They have refused to pay Dr and dentist bills, because they have no insurance and no money, and cry poor about everything, and say that the government should help them because they're poor, and thats what taxes are for. Meanwhile, with an income of about $26k, with the EITC, they got a "refund" from the government for $9+k, about $5k more than they paid in.
Here it is July, 4 months after getting their "refund" they've bought ANOTHER computer, but have no money for property taxes.
They have a motorcycle, a fishing boat, 2 campers, about 4 computers, all on about $26k a year.
I work 60-70 hours a week. Pay all my bills, try to save and plan for the future, and am by NO MEANS "rich". I've never had a boat or motorcycle or camper. I'm on my second computer, after my first one died after 10 years of use
And now other people EXPECT me, or people like me, to carry others like my cousin and her family.
I’m calling for the POOR to pitch in and pay their fair share, which while debatable is certainly greater than the nothing they pay now.
The 40-some% of the population that presently pays ZERO income taxes needs to share in the sacrifice, step up to the plate and get some skin in the game. Start at $10 a week...
Nice job on this.
Ubanga’s constant whining for a “balanced approach” has cracked me up from the beginning. It’s like he’s saying, “Hey, my Democrats are going to have to get by with a little less free stuff, and so to balance it out you Republicans are going to have to pay more taxes.” LOL, yeah, that’s “balanced”.
The audacity of that freaking dope..!
Warren Buffet is on record as saying his secretary pays more taxes than he does.
So I call on all the very wealthy Democrats to “pitch in”, first. Demonstrate some real leadership.
The ability to pay more than one owes has always been there and yet these people do not choose that option. It’s time they did. Buffet, Soros, Bloomberg, Kerry, the Clintons, Jobs, et all.
Oh, and Warren, while you’re at it, loan your secretary your tax attorney and pay for his time. It’s the least you can do.
Having actually read the article, I would suggest that the writer is correct. If the government just go out of the way, the rich would really do something to help the country. They would fire up the engines of growth.
Taking more from the private sector is stupid.
Taking more from those who employ and invest is even stupider.
Tax increases get passed on to the consumer, with the economy lacking consumer demand, this is also stupid.
Time for the federal government to “chip in”.