Peach
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INCOME tax is only part of the tax picture; sales, fuel, user, property, and license fees add up also. Most are WAY up in my state after the "income tax cut".Restraining orders you had to get against old boyfriends are irrelevant, but anyway....
1) Rich people already pay most of the taxes in this country, how about the millions of people that pay NO income taxes pony up a few dollars, in the interest of fairness.
2) Now the good little marxist wants wealth redistribution to include SS as well.
Wow. I mean, you really think calling people gay is a huge insult? Really? You know, they've done studies that show that most homophobes are likely to be latent gays than non-homophobic people.
The rich pay taxes that are less than the amount of the wealth that they control, and that's a large part of the problem. Please don't tell me that Mittens paying 13% tax while working folks pay 25% tax is fair or even sensible.
Means testing isn't about "Marxism". It's about what the program was for. It never should have been about a nice bonus check for people who already are rich. It was meant to keep old people from starving to death when they couldn't work anymore. That's the purpose. But because we Americans don't really like that sort of thing, we had to call it a "retirement program", when in fact, it was nothing of the sort. Rich or poor, you collect more than you paid into it if you live past 72. That might be sensible for a retiree of sensible means, but if you have a mansion, it really doesnt' make sense.
YOu see, I think that Romney is right on the overall principle, that the retirement age might need to go up. But you have to change a lot of other things before you get there.
One could think you're not a disingenuous faggot if you didn't tow the moonbat line of tax rates, knowing damn well Romney's income tax rate is higher than any "working folks" tax rate. Also funny how moonbats like you are all for means testing on SS (which people pay into) but not for it on things such as welfare. Someone who pays into a program for the better part of their life, but doesn't get any of it back is "fair"?........