[Mouton]

and the flip side of the universal income argument which is never spoken is: the money has to come from someone! Hence, when more than half of the population pays no income tax and even gets money over and above what they may have paid in, the producers get socked.

When I heard 50% of those surveyed thought the tax cut was a good thing (as opposed to more than 50% which seemed more likely), one has to consider that half of those surveyed don’t pay taxes to begin with. In fact, they look at it as less money in means less bennies for them. F em I say.

[Grampa Dave]

In total agreement with this statement:

When I heard 50% of those surveyed thought the tax cut was a good thing (as opposed to more than 50% which seemed more likely), one has to consider that half of those surveyed don’t pay taxes to begin with. In fact, they look at it as less money in means less bennies for them. F em I say.

[Buckeye McFrog]

the flip side of the universal income argument which is never spoken is: the money has to come from someone!

Listen to Rush Limbaugh this week. He has promised to cover this topic at length. Supposedly the new thinking by proponents is that it doesn't really matter anymore because they can just crank the printing presses. Since we keep doing that and yet the world economy has not imploded I am starting to fear they may be right.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

The producers are like indentured servants to the non-producers.