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Originally Posted by 57hemicuda
I truely HATE this class envy crap that the politicians and press keep fueling. You hear it everywhere, how did working hard to provide a nice life for our families become so wrong. I am by no means a 1%er, but 90% of the work I do is for the 1%. For the most part, these are descent, honorable, hard working people providing for there families just like me. There are exceptions of course, but that is every tax bracket.
I've gotten to the point that if someone even starts the rich argument, I can't even take them seriously. We can debate taxes, but I can tell you that if you work hard, your taying over 50% in taxes by the time you add the fed, state, local, property, sales,fuel, etc,etc.
I lay the decay of the family at the feet of the government, once the tax rate got that high Mom could no longer stay home and raise little Tommy. Due to 50% of your income be obsorbed by the government, to have any kind of quality of life Mom and Dad both had to work. This kept both parent working and stressing over making ends meet, not leaving the time that most of our Moms had to spend on us. After all, look how good we all turned out.LOL
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There is a lot of ignorance here. Taxes are exceptionally low relative to what they have been over the last century. There were decade long stretches where the top tax bracket was 90%, and that included dividends.
A common theme in this thread is that a lot of people don't pay and yet receive benefits from the government, which is deficit spending to do so. The so called 47%, where even if you remove the veterans and old people still has some people who in fact do work, but don't pay federal income tax (they pay local/state/sales tax of course).
Who is to blame for these free loaders who straight up get a check from the government? Bush in 2002. The tax cuts partially being discussed recently, included provisions that eliminated 8 million people off of the tax rolls because the lowest rate went down, and credits in some cases doubled.
I'm independent but I think critically about these things and I have a clear concise plan to restore America.
To balance the budget, a new law that says states can receive only an amount up to 80% of what your residents pay in income tax. Why 80%? Well some percentage goes towards government overhead, and some goes towards paying down the debt.
Net effect: All but 3 'red' states suddenly get a lot less money. My blue state actually gets less too so I'm not being vindictive here. Chances are the entire south goes bankrupt within a year.
Any state can opt out of Obamacare. The downside is we won't make medicare payments to your doctors as these things compliment each other and we aren't ala carte.
Net effect: Any state that opts out loses half or more of their doctors, and their residents are not as healthy, further adding costs to running the states as it turns out the states that would do this, would be the ones who currently take more than they make.
I love the rich, I mean I hope to be in Greg's shoes one day. Who bothers me is the South, a bunch of freeloading taking states that don't even have the awareness to see that they are railing against the very things that would help them. Not only that, but I'm paying for it.
This is half a joke, everything except for the part where I said I hate the south.