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Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html

1 posted on 01/06/2019 7:10:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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"Oh, I can support folks at the top paying their fair share," Castro told ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday when asked directly whether he could endorse the high-profile New York Democrat's idea.

"Their fare share" being 9/10ths of everything they make. Got it.

Economic illiteracy seems to be a built-in feature of socialism.
2 posted on 01/06/2019 7:12:51 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Start with Bernie Sanders, he has FOUR houses..he doens’t “need” four houses..sell three of them, sell his Porsche. Meanwhile, Id love to see the commie leftist celebrities have to give up 90 percent of their wealth, even though we all know they would be exempt..but Id laugh my ass off watching Alyssa Milano, Cher, Barbara Streisand, Kathy Griffin, Jim Carrey, and all the rest of them having to fork over the cash


5 posted on 01/06/2019 7:17:17 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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And where does the money go? Typically, not to the poor. Government funded programs that see a certain percent going back into the greedy pockets of the politicians who started them.


7 posted on 01/06/2019 7:19:54 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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I don’t understand why many Americans just don’t comprehend how dangerous Democrats and their policies are. I’m so glad that Trump got elected and really exposed the Left for who they really are.


8 posted on 01/06/2019 7:20:05 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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Dear America: congratulations, you screwed up again! When will you learn? Socialism means everyone is equally poor, except the bureaucrats.


11 posted on 01/06/2019 7:24:02 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Our very own Castro?

Say it ain’t so.........


13 posted on 01/06/2019 7:26:29 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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We need a 100% tax on all income above minimum wage on ALL Democrats in the USA. You want Communism, you must live like one. You may also not own property and will be assigned a gubmint hovel to live in. I’m deadly serious.


14 posted on 01/06/2019 7:28:58 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Julian Castro attempts to out bid She Guevara's 60-67% tax rate, with a 90% tax rate.

Do I hear 102?


17 posted on 01/06/2019 7:30:03 PM PST by BeauBo
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"Oh, I can support folks at the top paying their fair share,"

The top 10% of income earners already pay 72% of total income tax receipts. WTF do they think constitutes a "fair share"? How about the 51% who pay no taxes pay their fair share? To me, those 51% have no skin in the game, so they shouldn't be allowed to vote in Federal elections. Wonder how that would change their attitude. Indeed, how about a flat 17% income tax, no deductions for anyone, including members of Congress.

18 posted on 01/06/2019 7:30:18 PM PST by econjack
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And...the scramble begins out of the CA and NY hell holes.


19 posted on 01/06/2019 7:34:00 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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What do commies in Congress like No Cortex make? Something like $175,000 a year? That’s ain’t chump change, that’s a hell of a lot of money for a government taxpayer funded job in which most of them do absolutely nothing beneficial for the country or the taxpayers.. So let’s ask her to start paying 90% in taxes just as a demonstration. Let’s see how she handles taking home $312 a week which if it was up to me would be what Congress should really be paid.


20 posted on 01/06/2019 7:36:02 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Until Hillary is in jail, equal justice under the law will not exist in the USA)
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And how about asking the people affected? Notice all wanting to destroy American are mostly first generation, bring their third world cesspool cultures and politics with them.


21 posted on 01/06/2019 7:39:52 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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Russia has a flat tax of 13% on peoples’ income, however much they earn.

Which nation is free & which nation is going Commie?


24 posted on 01/06/2019 7:42:56 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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She is right on that point.

Joe Louis vs the IRS

25 posted on 01/06/2019 7:44:56 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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Just what we need: A commie named Castro as President.


29 posted on 01/06/2019 7:52:18 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Until Hillary is in jail, equal justice under the law will not exist in the USA)
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IF the media were objective, intelligent, concerned about the whole story, the entire truth,

they would ask these people serious follow-up questions that would destroy their idiot positions.

Such as, ‘you realize that by going after corporations money they earn, they raise prices, cut staff, and pass along their higher costs of doing business to consumers, who then buy less as a group, and this all slows the overall economy? Which then decreases tax revenues collected by government?

Or

you do realize the tax system is not meant to be punitive on particular groups you personally hate or are biased against or that you personally believe have ‘too much money’, taxes are for funding essential government functions?

Or

why do democrats want everyone to be prosperous and thriving yet every prosperous business that does well, youwant to tax at outrageously high rates to penalize them for their success?


31 posted on 01/06/2019 7:57:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Castro sounds like a appropriate name for this communist.


32 posted on 01/06/2019 7:57:14 PM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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“Castro also floated “that we get more serious about making sure the corporations pay their fair share,”

Meanwhile in “socialist” Sweden....

“The present corporate income tax rate of 22% would be reduced to 21.4% in 2019 and then further reduced to 20.6% in 2021.”

This guy’s father must be Fidel.


34 posted on 01/06/2019 7:58:48 PM PST by aquila48
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get more serious about making sure the corporations pay their fair share

That's one the leftists really like. It appeals to the class warfare types. But it also results in hidden taxation as these taxes are passed down to you and me in the prices of products.

Ah -- hidden taxes. It doesn't get any better than that for these leftists. Economics be dammed.

35 posted on 01/06/2019 8:05:36 PM PST by plain talk
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Castro and his ilk think that they have a stationary target they can tap. Rich people.

But the wealthy have the money, and therefore the freedom, to move somewhere else to avoid paying these high taxes.

Hollande tried this in France and the wealthy fled to foreign environs to avoid their 75% tax.

Who would stand still to have a bunch of government bureaucrats steal most of their hard-earned money?

90% of nothing is nothing.

36 posted on 01/06/2019 8:06:28 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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