Posted on 01/17/2006 4:01:07 PM PST by Mogengator
Republican and Democratic big government advocates whine about President Bush's proposed tax cuts, particularly cuts in the capital gains tax. They say it's a $70 billion giveaway to the rich. Listening to demagoguery about the rich, I've sometimes wished that we could find a humane way to get rid of the rich so that we might better focus on what's in the interests of the other 99.44 percent of us.
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how can it be a giveaway when it's simply the idea to let people keep more of their own money that the government had no business taking in the first place?
My man
Because every years the government -- out elected representatives -- decided to buy a bunch of stuff. New roads, new military equipment, their own salaries, etc. etc. etc. ete. etc. etc. etc. etc...all that stuff has to be paid for -- more or less -- by someone. And, at the risk of sounding like a "class warrior," the less Joe pays the more John has to pay.
Milton Friedman and Adam Smith RULE
Well lets see. I bought some land over 20 years ago with some hard earned reenlistment money. Kept it in good order and sold it last year for a tidy profit. The government's cut due to capital gains? $12,000.
Tell me again about tax cuts for the rich. Nothing cut for me except I would have paid even more before the cut in the tax rate.
Last year my income was low enough that I paid no taxes at all. All State & Federal taxes withheld were refunded. My income this year is substantially the same.
However, this year I have sold some stock bought through my old employer's employee stock plan. I bought at $1.60 and sold at $20, so it looks like this year I will be one of the "filthy rich" the liberals are always complaining about. "Tax cuts for the rich" --- yeah, right!
The question nobody asks is, "Whose money is it anyway? Yours or the government's"?
That's the question everybody asks all the time...
Same here, self employed don't seem to get any benefits from the tax cuts.
Big concentrations of private wealth is one of the things that has made our country successful. Many companies require large amounts of start-up capital - if no one is able to invest this amount on their own or in small groups, then companies don't get formed, competition doesn't exist, and monopolies and big government rule the day.
yes, that's what I meant...
Eliminate the "earned income tax credit" which is nothing but welfare and they could lower taxes on the "rich" even more.
And how is Mrs. Williams doing?
The less Joe pays, the quicker he is to vote for "free" government programs which will be paid for by somebody else.
Our elections for the past 40 years have been a decision between competing handout packages.
Every year the recepients vote themselves a little bit more and the productive class is squeezed a little bit harder. The point of collapse will be reached eventually, and it won't be pretty.
I don't believe it will collapse, but folks are going to have to understand that "stuff" isn't free. This may be a painful lesson for all concerned.
Sometimes I feel like the last fiscal conservative.
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