I get zero in government assistance but am easily in the bottom 47% of income earners.
If Romney can be so smeared for simply telling the truth, it shows nothing more than the inordinate influence the enemedia has on our culture.
Their credibility needs to be totally destroyed and when, not if, it happens, a token number of some of their worst toadies will have to suffer the same fate as did Nazi architect Julius Streicher to emphasize the point.
Schiff only has the guts to say what many of the rest of us are thinking. There will be more money disappearing into the black market. More tax avoidance schemes, both legal and otherwise. And more people (like me) on the margins who say "to hell with it! I'm tired of pulling the wagon when so many of those riding it are better off than I. Maybe I'll ride too!"
You ,ake a good point: Te more onerous the tax laws become the more redily honest citizens will provoked to cheat. I doubt this fact is calculated into the overall revenue the fed hopes to bring in. And they winder why people become tac cheats, it’s not rocket science. The underground economy will grow as taxes are seen to be more and more infair. To reign in the underground economy you will need an ever increasing bureacracy which in turn will increase the ranks of the unemployed providing an expanding tax base and so it goes round and round. And who wins? Government!
You ,ake a good point: Te more onerous the tax laws become the more redily honest citizens will provoked to cheat. I doubt this fact is calculated into the overall revenue the fed hopes to bring in. And they wonder why people become tax cheats, it’s not rocket science. The underground economy will grow as taxes are seen to be more and more infair. To reign in the underground economy you will need an ever increasing bureacracy which in turn will increase the ranks of the unemployed providing an expanding tax base, but ner enough for the left, and so it goes round and round. And who wins? Government!
You make a good point: Te more onerous the tax laws become the more redily honest citizens will provoked to cheat. I doubt this fact is calculated into the overall revenue the fed hopes to bring in. And they wonder why people become tax cheats, it’s not rocket science. The underground economy will grow as taxes are seen to be more and more infair. To reign in the underground economy you will need an ever increasing bureacracy which in turn will increase the ranks of the unemployed providing an expanding tax base, but never enough for the left, and so it goes round and round. And who wins? Government!