"Taxes...did someone say taxes?"
Posted on 04/15/2009 8:48:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Most Americans that complain about too many taxes likely pays very little taxes themselves. Our roads, bridges, and other infra-structure are crumbling. Our healthcare system is a disaster. Do you think this can be fixed with less money into the government coffers?
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Yeah, like those considered for positions in the Obama's cabinet?
“For conservatives, every day is July 4. For liberals, every day is April 15.”
Yes. Every bit of it.
The country that started with a tax revolt now has people who call it un-American to resist taxation. I guess I’m supposed to just clap the chains on myself any day now.
What a childish idiot. I don’t even think he is American.
I don’t mind paying taxes, as long as they are reasonable. I *DO* mind them going to ACORN and the other trillions of dollars of pure pork.
This guy is dumber than a bag if hammers.
"Taxes...did someone say taxes?"
I pay over 50 cents a gallon on tax every time I put gas in my car. I also pay licensing taxes on my car and sales taxes on it.
Quit spending my tax dollars on ACORN and other things.
“The reality is that after we spend our way out of this recession.”
The Obama Administration hosts a culture of corruption. Known tax cheats were seated by the Democrats.
How about some transparency that those collecting the taxes are paying their legally required share?
OK. Fine. Share the work instead of the wealth (the wealth will redistribute itself) and switch to a consumer tax. That way, ALL Americans, not just the employed right wing, can "share the burden."
It's unpatriotic for the welfare base not to contribute their labors to the country like everyone else, right?
Share the taxation!! Let's REALLY make it fair.
It’s amazing how anyone can say that publicly. Imagine the outrage if Bush said that!
There was a big stink in 1995 to push for a flat tax. It came around tax day. And then the Clinton Administration used the OKC bombing to silence criticism by branding those opposed to an expansion of the role of government and socialized medicine “anti-government types who listen to right wing hate radio”.
He looked like he’d be a one term president (he’d already lost Democrat control of Congress) but he rallied to a second term on that event.
If only we paid more taxes, all the stuff that this idiot mentions would get fixed, right? If I believed that for one instant, maybe I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes. Who the hell would by a product that might give you what you want, might not, and always goes up in price? This idiot can drop straight to the fifth ring and cook, for all I care.
The root cause of this talking point is that they seek “redistribution of wealth” and social/economic “justice”.
The lesson of the ants and the grasshopper are lost on them. They loathe Aesop.
To create a Socialist society, you have to destroy the society in existence first and rebuild it in your own image.
Health care was doing just fine until Hillary decided she wanted a government take over. It's gone down hill ever since. "Mission accomplished."
The idiot Marxist does have a good point, which he actually understates because he’s so busy peddling garbage.
Wage earners, laborers and salaried professionals can pay over 40% of their income in taxes, between state and local income tax, FICA and social security taxes. (Can we drop the idiocy and acknowledge that social security paycheck deductions are simply taxes?) Contrarily, heirs who simply leave their Daddy’s money in their investments and sip by the poolside pay only 15%.
Yet this 40% taxation, which cripples the economic freedom of 80% of Americans generates relatively little bang for the hardship it causes. Obama’s trillion-dollar spending spree could have eliminated federal income taxes for 80% of all Americans... altogether. Now go back an look at last year’s quarterly GDP figures. See that 2nd quarter growth amidst all the declines? That was President Bush refunding a median 10% of federal taxes. What impact would refunding 100% cause?
And also our gripes about paying into this system is some way the reason that we are Un-American.
The Lack of logic in these statements is astounding.
There is too many skipped steps in that reasoning to suggest that our money is being spent efficiently, such that more money increases the effectiveness of these benefits.
There is also not a compelling reason to increase them such that they operate better than they already do.
There is more blatantly, an astounding lack of connection between disagreement about taxation and the un-patriotic, or un-american label.
“Most Americans that complain about too many taxes likely pays very little taxes themselves.”
Well, my wife and I combined paid $138,000 in income tax in 2008. Isn’t that enough??? Essentially, my salary, in total plus a bit more, goes to pay Uncle Sam. Forget “Tax Freedom Day” for me - there is none.
I guarantee that I pay way more income tax than the “Texas” putz who made that lying video.
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