ZOT! Taxes: A Plea to Bush

[PA Engineer]

I smell ozone.

[Bikers4Bush]

Here's a better idea. Go to a flat tax and be done with it.

[PhiKapMom]

Oh please! You sign on yesterday and post a vanity with class envy the next day? Give us a break! Class envy doesn't work on here with most of us.

The Government does NOT deserve to take any part of anyone's inheritance IMHO! That is double taxing money! The person who earned it and paid taxes and the family that inherits the money and has to pay taxes no matter how much money is involved.

[kenth]

You should spend your two cents on the Fair Tax plan.

[WSGilcrest]

Did you decide who needs it?

[safeasthebanks]

Get lost, lefty.

[KJacob]

"Let’s be honest, if you are making millions of dollars a year on investments because your daddy, granddaddy or great granddaddy made a ton of money"


I believe something like 80% of the rich in this country are first generation rich. Meaning they earned it themselves. And phrases like "normal working people" scare me. Most rich work very hard.

[Protagoras]

Let’s be honest, if you are making millions of dollars a year on investments because your daddy, granddaddy or great granddaddy made a ton of money and you just sit their sipping mint juleps all day then there is no reason you should be paying less in taxes than someone who is out there holding down multiple jobs to feed their family.

Let’s be honest, You are a moron troll.

[kenth]

To those according to their need?

[grobdriver]

However, I think once you reach a certain point in wealth (I don’t know the number say $10 or $20 million) then maybe the government deserves to get a cut of the wealth for creating the framework to allow the people to make this much money

And there's where your credibility goes down the drain.
Who will make the descision where the "certain point" is? You? Ted Kennedy? The people of New York and LA on welfare?

The government deserves none of the money its citizens earn, as long as it's earned legally.
The government doesn't "allow" people to earn money. They do it. One way or another.

And maybe some are born into it - well that's fine. It didn't happen to me, so I have to work harder. But someone, at some point in the past, earned the wealth that is inherited.
There is no right of the government to re-distribute the earnings of any citizen. There is no cut-off point.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Sniff! Sniff!

Yep. Definitely a pre-ZOT ozone odor.

[Gordon_Blair]

PhiKapMom,
You are right on double taxing of inheritance. I would change my comment above.

Class envy? As someone who works 80 hours a week for his family, I believe in what I believe in and I guess that each persons opinion on taxes is dependent on what suits them best. That's what shapes my ideas.

And as to being a newbie, please excuse if I have not learned the etiquette yet

[scott0347]

Here Kitties, Fresh troll meat

[Coop]

I don't agree much with your perspective, but welcome to FR.

[SaveTheChief]

It sounds like you're bitter about old money and investors.

Why do you need to be so smarmy, using language like "daddy?"

This makes me think that maybe you should be venting somewhere else.

[Arrowhead1952]

Troll time ZOT!

[expatpat]

As far as I am concerned, the Alternative Minimum Tax needs the highest-priority attention.

[MeekOneGOP]

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