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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
How the hell does our tax structure “favor the wealthy?”

It's very simple--I am not joking, I can post about this with authority because I work in Cambridge, MA and have had this argument over and over and over.

People like HRC believe in the Marxist concept that if you are wealthy, it is because you took more than your share from someone else, who thus has less than they should.

HRC and her sort--known as HRCS--believe that one of the reasons we even HAVE a government is to prevent certain people from "getting" too much.

Thus, if someone goes out and creates a new product or industry, they are using this country and its system which is ALL OF OURS to "play the system" and earn MORE than someone else--thus, taking money from an imaginary "closed system" which has only so much wealth to go around.

So if someone is making more than HRCS deem necessary, and can afford luxury items (namely anything beyond essentials and MAYBE a one-week, MODEST vacation), they're not fueling the economy. No, no, NO--their expenditures somehow go nowhere and do nothing.

It is only government which has the right to spend that money, because we ALL get to vote for the executive and legislative branches. Thus, they are our proxies in deciding what should be done with the wealth that's NOT created by an individual but by THE SYSTEM we are ALL a part of.

So any punitive taxes are only about "playing fair" and "leveling the playing field" or otherwise taking back for ALL OF US what those evil rich people "took" from ALL of us.

Now, ain't that logical to you? :D

23 posted on 01/20/2008 11:37:58 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: Darkwolf377

That’s it! I’m not reading any more of your posts. That last one gave me a headache!!!! LOL


30 posted on 01/20/2008 11:45:23 PM PST by Laptop_Ron (Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —)
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To: Darkwolf377
HRC and her sort--known as HRCS--believe that one of the reasons we even HAVE a government is to prevent certain people from "getting" too much.

Which, of course, explains why certain bureaucrats have secret accounts in the Cayman Islands.

31 posted on 01/20/2008 11:45:36 PM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (<==== NOW MORE THAN EVER !!!!!)
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To: Darkwolf377

Truly frightening! They only let you out of your cage at night, correct?

Just joking. Your statement was spot on. Thank you, as it was broken down into easily understood terms.


44 posted on 01/21/2008 12:38:32 AM PST by SatinDoll (Fredhead and proud of it!)
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To: Darkwolf377
Now, ain't that logical to you? :D

Sounds perfectly logical to me. (In a pigs ass!!)

62 posted on 01/21/2008 3:59:01 AM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Fracking commies.


71 posted on 01/21/2008 4:29:17 AM PST by toddlintown (Build More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: Darkwolf377
I hear the same thing all the time (and not just in the People's Republic of Cambridge). An astonishing number of people have failed to learn that wealth is not a static quantity (e.g. - a pie to be divided), but a value that grows and spreads outward as the result of people taking risks and earning rewards. All they have to do is look around. Even in Cambridge, Mass. many poor people own cars, have air conditioning, dependable heat and hot water, home entertainment systems, and well-stocked refrigerators. How many of their grandparents or even parents could have said the same?

Oh, yeah, I forgot: it was "government" that did all that. When the same sort of people suggest that I'm not paying my "fair share", I ask them what they think would happen if I just decided to stop working and live off the government instead. What if all of the undeserving "rich" people did the same? To even pose the question is considered to be unspeakably selfish. It is apparently some people's duty to produce for everyone's benefit, you see. For her part, Hillary Clinton seems to believe this wholeheartedly. Of course, she's never earned an honest dollar in her life - which of course, explains a lot.

78 posted on 01/21/2008 4:45:22 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: Darkwolf377

“So if someone is making more than HRCS deem necessary, and can afford luxury items (namely anything beyond essentials and MAYBE a one-week, MODEST vacation), they’re not fueling the economy. No, no, NO—their expenditures somehow go nowhere and do nothing.”

Just a minor correction since there is one exception to the rule of what ‘HRCS deem necessary’. The HRCS must, of course, be exempt from any standards of ‘necessary’ since their earnings are justified by the good they do. IOW, only those who produce wealth must be penalized. Those who ‘allocate’ wealth must be exempt.


85 posted on 01/21/2008 5:16:33 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Ron Paul - building a bridge to the 19th century.)
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To: Darkwolf377

It sounds like you and I have both argued with the same idiots. My condolences.


93 posted on 01/21/2008 5:26:29 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: Darkwolf377
Now, ain’t that logical to you? :D <<

It sure! is.....As long as “they” only take it from the “believers” in that system....let the rest of us take our own chances...

(Ive posed that argument to many a liberal.....I haven't gotten one to say he’d give up his money yet,,,,*G* Their concern is MY money!)

113 posted on 01/21/2008 6:14:34 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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