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I fully understand everything you are saying...

I do not beleive you understand what I am saying..

this is not about funding the government in regards to lower income people..

this is about putting cash into the kitty, about feeling some pain for once, about “being fair”

if a fubo voter comes to you about taxing the rich, yet they bitch because their taxes went up, all you have to say to them is “now everybody is feeling the pain. how much more fair can you get?”..

what can they say in return that does not make THEM sound greedy and childish???

the rich will be paying more ( it was gonna happen anyway ) the middle class will be paying more ( it was gonna happen anyway ) and now...

the lower income and those that did not pay taxes before are going to be paying more, and a whole host that did not pay anything are going to be putting something into the kitty...

talk about an opportunity to not only educate, but convert some libs to conservatism...

those that do not wish to change their views, well, just keep on coughin’ up the cash pal, ‘cuz you got exactly what you voted for...

be careful what you ask for, ‘cuz you might just get it..

let them eat cake

This is actually a bifurcated discussion of two topics. One is taxation ~ pure and simple ~ no one escapes taxation somewhere. The original design in our Constitution was that the federal government could be funded only by indirect taxes ~ thereby removing much of the contact between the federales and the population on an individual basis.

I think we know all the issues there ~ to wit, income tax bad, high taxes bad, indirect taxes good ~ or at least just the sort of thing needed to trim the federal government's spending sails.

The other issue is my special idea of TAXING ONLY DEMOCRATS. That way the Democrats are happy because their taxes would certainly be increased, but the Republicans would be happy because their taxes would certainly be decreased.

Do not try to mix those two ideas.

In the case at hand the states that will end up paying the most taxes in the Fiscal Cliff are those who are overrun with Democrats ~ hence, just letting things happen as they are going to happen will end up taxing Democrats, and there's nothing wrong with taxing them!

Now, let's get on with the other part of the idea ~ exempting Republicans from taxation!

BTW, the idea that forcing the poor to pay federal income taxes is good is just this side of totally bizarre. The whole program of federal income taxes was sold as being applicable to only the biggest businesses and the top 1 or 2 percent of income earners!

Reagan put us on the path of returning to that standard ~ besides, as we all recall that was a Republican campaign promise ~ in 1909!