Posted on 12/06/2005 8:33:51 AM PST by Marxbites
That's what I'm trying to figure out. It's a theoretical question . . .
Just as important as who pays is that TOTAL receipts from taxes are soaring.
Not only did we pay down the deficit to zero during Jerkoff's tenure, but we'll do it again as the economy booms.
Lowering taxes makes sense.
Your point genius?
Because the point of the article was in response to the leftmedia etc, who keep the "tax cuts for the rich" mantra front and center.
They are liars. The lowest brackets got the biggest percentage cuts, and millions got off the rolls all together. All the while the percentage of taxes paid by the rich have increased ever since Reagan's cuts.
Wanna argue about that - If you can read.
LOL! We're going in circles. My position is that they do not have the power they are said to have. Money may buy fair weather friends, but it won't keep the taxman away. In fact just the opposite. Because government has no money of its own, it must target the earnings and productivity of the rich.
See, the problem would be lessened if the tax burden percentages were more evenly distributed. A flat tax, say. The rich would still rightly pay more, but the burden would be shared, so no one would have a free ride or a motive to unfairly pressure the government to rob the rich. It would cost everyone the same.
I have been saying that for years, thanks.
Those that disproportionately use the services our taxes pay for, but which we seldom use, shouldn't have the same voting clout.
The elites (Rockefeller/Morgan/Carnegie) have used socialism against us, their wealth is secure in trusts and foundations free of taxation, and what they do spend goes to propaganda machines to perpetuate the deception.
These were the people who pushed for the ICC & the Fedl Reserve for their own protection, with average Americans holding the ever expanding tax bag their profits come from.
Like Kerry and the Kennedys
It's the very reason the Founders limited Govt as such, to protect we the people's rights, especially property rights, without which there is no real freedom, like now.
Famous quote from Rush.
"If you thought no taxation without representation was bad, you should see what it looks like with representation".
the old 80/20 rule applies.......
No, you haven't read the rewrite of history. They wanted to especially protect sexual rights. The more perverse the better.
I agree. If we're a nation of equals under the law, we should be a nation of equals under the taxman as well.
You do not accurately describe the impact of income taxes on pricing. Prices are not determined by figuring in income taxes. Income taxes are not a true cost of production since they are only paid IF a profit is made. This is a common misunderstanding of the Fair Taxers.
This article brainchild has zip to do with the fair tax.
It is solely about the left's claim of "Tax cuts for the rich" which is a blatant lie the leftists and MSM continue crowing.
They weren't disproportionately for the rich and are the very reason for our solid growth and low unemployment since the reals cuts of 2003.
Get a clue Idiot!
Harvard defends their sky-high tuition by claiming that it ensures the super-rich will attend, resulting in massive endowments from those parents and alumni - WHICH ENABLES THEM TO GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS TO UNDERPRIVILEGED MINORITIES...
Sure, it's nothing to do with retaining their 13 billion cash in the bank. They want to help the poor attend Harvard, so they make it unaffordable to the entire middle-class of America.
So there's also that side-benefit of keeping out good average Americans (and their good average values). Only the exploited poor and their wealthy exploiters end up at Harvard.
The tax codes are similarly structured: large revenues (from the very wealthy) ensure an influx of "public sector-ism" into the economy through subsequent govenment spending. Public sector-ism is the figurative noose around the neck of middle-class Americans - financially, morally, and politically. In short, it harms and kills conservatives.
The calls for the Fed Reserve did not originate with the rich elites but with the Populists and Progressives thirty years BEFORE the meeting at Jeckyl Island. It was not a conspiracy against the common man so stop spreading that crap.
Taxpayers benefit from the Fed since ALL its profits are turned over to the US Treasury. Plus it has an incentive to prevent inflation since doing so protects even the bankers. So even if it were a bankers plot it would not act against the value of the dollar.
Some "services" cannot be properly charged to individual users but benefit all. If my neighbor had to pay for the firemen to put out his house and he couldn't do so do you really believe my house should burn down as a result?
Have you ever taken an economics course?
Thanks for that! Few understand how the super-elites, not hard working self made millionaires, but the Rockefellers etc who have used the Govt as their defenders that usurps middle American.
The socialist ruse of the caste system they created.
That is one of the problems with the way the fed is set up, they have no incentives to make a profit. The Fed takes in trillions of dollars and usually shows a profit of maybe $20 Billion or so, which is pocket change for them. The federal reserve really has an unlimited expense account with no incentive to keep their spending in check.
I don't believe you can say that the fed takes in "trillions of dollars" it isn't anything close to that.
But if set up as a profit making institution the Leftists and conspiratorialists would have a field day attacking it.
This is another myth that is widespread. The Constitution greatly EXPANDED federal power; it only limited the power of states. That expansion rightly came about because the prior government was powerless and contemptible incapable of resisting the negative actions of the states. It had ceased to exist for all practical purposes.
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