emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
A guy who makeones a million a year, after credits and legal deductions will pay about 220,000 in income tax. Someone reaching that salary typically is at the age where his kids are grown and he's paying to send them to college.So...why doesn't that apply to the wealthy? Subsidies? Loopholes? Breaks?...the poor?
I'm dying to know.
The tax code was never intended to be a welfare program, that's why.
Those getting EITC on the other hand are likely to have 4 kids in public school, they're collecting food stamps, subsidized housing and medicaid.
Now the poor family is paying sales taxes on their skittles and big macs but it costs society 60 or 70 thousand a year in education and "entitlements.
Both the rich guy and the poor folk are pretty much equal in their benefit from infrastructure fire and police services.
So why the fuck is the rich guy paying the freight for 3 or 4 poor families?
What's fair about that?
It is about benefit from society.
The rich benefit most from society. Here is a tip, what would America be like with nearly a gun for every adult in your society and people on the street starving?
I think some of the RW hear need to go to a place like South Africa and see the violence that results. Car Jackings are so common place you don't stop at traffic lights at night, people live on compounds surrounded by electric fencing and armed guards and don't walk streets at night. You can't flag a taxi on the street. Crime is rampant and Security costs a fortune.
The isolated farming communities have daily occurance of sieges in their family homes on average one a day.
Major city centers are no go areas after dark.
I have lived there 10 years ago.
Hi CowboyTed
and most RW I know would blame crime on the poor who are not taught or rewarded
for taking ownership in their cities and country.
Do you see the common pattern?
How is it is any better to blame the rich for being rich, without due process to prove WHICH wealth
corporate interests DID the crimes or abuses that cost taxpayers money.
That is just as wrongful to blame the poor for being poor, without proof of WHICH were the ones committing crimes!
Instead of trying to punish people by class, rich blaming poor and poor blaming rich,
go after the actual crooks who commit crimes and abuses at taxpayer expense.
As long as big lawyers make big money off defending big crooks who are never held responsible
for paying back the costs of corruption, and as long as poor crooks fill up our prisons and courts
and cost us money off crime, the taxpayers are the ones who get punished by paying these bills.
Why keep punishing law abiding taxpayers by taking this expense out on us?
If all parties teamed up, made a laundry list of everything that needs to be cleaned up,
and backed each other on going after the crooks, maybe we'd finally get somewhere.
But if the party politics keeps making billions off pitting one up against the other, we all lose.
And the corporate financiers keep playing this game at taxpayer expense, buying out both parties.
How long can we afford this to go on?