Well, don't try to post on FR anymore.
Posted on 03/29/2011 8:57:23 PM PDT by Christus_Rex
Begone leftist troll....... The revolution is coming from the right to make people rich and allow those who earn to keep their earnings.
The rich are already paying way, way more than their share.
Over half of Americans pay no Federal income tax. How about we get them to pay their share?
Impose one Federal tax rate for all Americans. Make sure everyone has skin in the game - and preferably the same percentage of skin.
Let’s start with taxing Bambi’s BFF, GE.
“Do you believe in free markets?”
I do! But the bankers and GE and GM and ADM and Monsanto and ....don’t. I pay whatever the tax rate I’m supposed to, I can’t bribe Charlie Rangel or Obama or Bush or Geinther to enact a TARP bailout or e special tax code for me.
They’re already paying more than their “share.” The top 1% pay over 30% of the income taxes while getting substantially less percentage of the income.
I got a better idea. Stop whinging and whining for “free” stuff. Food, shelter, education, and health are not “rights.” Nobody has a “right” to anything someone else has to pay for - saying otherwise violates the Involuntary Servitude Amendment.
Got a better idea. Make the “poor” pay their fair share. Implement the Fair Tax.
but I strongly agree that the super rich need to pay more of their share.
I'm sure that by now you have felt the love from Americans who are not so enchanted with your plans for shared misery.
Just this proposal alone breaks four of God's top commandments:
And while we are on the topic:
1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
Your greed and love of someone else's money is bringing on this sorrow of yours, and as the passage shows - you hatch evil plans to steal from your neighbor.
The "super rich" get that way because they know how to handle money, ideas and people. They also provide a service or product that people are willing to pay for.
Your beloved welfare deadbeats, union thugs and politicians suck the life out of everyone, consume products and services, and contribute only in the department of misery - yet that is who you wish to reward from the plunder of the Producers.
Money travels easily. You want to soak the rich? Instead of letting you steal from their table, they will simply pack up and leave - investing their money in a not so wicked society who only sees the wealthy as an object of hate and envy.
Your pathetic ilk wants to transform America from a land of opportunity to a land of back-stabbing thieves, sloth and despair.
Odd - when Lenin, Trotsky, and Marx proposed the same thing, it was revolution first, then tax the super rich. Oh, well, plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
How about GE? The ENTIRE COMPANY paid no taxes last year.
What are you doing on FR?
touche
Would you still hold that opinion if you were one of them?
Envy is a powerful thing, and even the elect can be deceived by it.
You forgot the proposed Seattle toilet paper tax.
You have to be kidding... this belongs at DU.
You’re on the wrong site...head to democratic underground
Well, don't try to post on FR anymore.
That troll was particularly stupid.
Both lead to bad policy.
From a strictly historical view, when you have wealth concentrated in a small number of people, the chance for abuse of that power is greater. When enough people get mad, revolts happen and often an overreaction.
The author of the article is correct that the “super rich” live in a bubble. Heck, Rush Limbaugh shows that quite often (and I am not counting Rush in the same class). The concerns of the elite are not even on the same time zone of the concerns of the middle or lower classes. I have seen it myself personally. That is human nature.
In short, people are greedy both ways, and will play the system to their advantage (or destroy the system).
Well, there is the idea of diminishing marginal brnefit that you can't dismiss out of hand. The first white castle burger is a lot more satisfying than the 12th. An unexpected thousand bucks is certainly more welcome by somebody really struggling to make the rent than by somebody with millions.
If the vast majority of rich people didn't agree with the idea, they wouldn't generously give to those with less. None of this means it is the right of anybody to decide for others how others money should be allocated
Americans deserve the government they get. Our only real defense is an engaged, informed citizenry. If we want to be a nation that honors the Rule of Law, it starts with the voter. Our immigration laws are not being enforced. Do you blame the "super rich" for this as well?
I read some of his / hers / its replies, and finally clicked on the name. It was already zotted. LOL.
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