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It means the selfish ones are those who seek to take others money, not those who seek to keep their own.
I'd support ditching the income tax. Won't happen.
However, while we have it, there's no excusing that the wealthiest indeed get the greatest benefit from a vibrant economy, low crime and relative peace abroad. We should probably adjust the upper bracket so mutli-millionaires and multi-billionaires pay a share more in line to the overall benefit they've received. At such levels, money is just making more money. It has little to do with their continued daily effort, nor even really what their contribution is worth to humanity.
Perhaps a special sportsman and entertainer tax is in order for all those nothings which contribute only to the decay of decency and morality to pay us for having to put up with them. And no more damned tax-payer funded ballbarks, too.
There was one op-ed in the local paper on Sunday suggesting, in essense, it wasn't fair that the poorest 50% don't pay 50% of all taxes. The writer, somewhere off in an alternate reality, neglects to realize any tax on the poor has a bigger impact on that person's or family's buying power. These aren't people of means. At those levels it can mean passing on necessary health care and I'm not talking about vanity or lifestyle indulgences like birth-control pills and viagra but full-time care for an dementia patient who is too dangerous to be cared for at home any longer.
To someone in the upper brackets, and yet they too can live beyond their means but who have the financial resources and management resources available to them to more easily avoid it, such costs are hardly an issue at all. Consider Limbaugh and his not bothering with health care insurance and HMOs, instead using his financial means to pay as he needs. Damned few are in his position. Most must wait two, three months in the HMO queue for kidney or liver ultrasounds, colonoscopies, and other tests.
We can't all be in the top 1%. The economy, from a business and consumer angle demands a majority of people at lower income levels to fill critical, if often menial tasks. We can't all be making $150,000/year. Businesses and conservatives already grouse at increases in minimum wage, imagine if we were all paid like lawyers (or, in some places, like teachers!).
Sometimes I wonder if Democrat's solution is to import (near) slave labour in the form of illegal immigration and the Republican solution is to rent near, or actual, slave labour in foreign countries all the while both are gleeful as our investment portfolios bloom and we drag on our health care system with habits of excess drink, smoking, and unhealthy diets. At least Rush, being able to pay in full, dodges the hypocrasy yolk by not being a drag on HMO costs and contributing to the need for higher premiums.
Or not.
nice try but you missed the point
do the math .....
take money from 49 % of the people
give to 51 % of the people =
perpetual power.
Is this April 1st?
The income tax is unfair and needs to be eliminated in favor of user fees and consumption taxes so everyone will pay the taxes. If you buy it or use it, then pay a tax. Today, the vast majority of self-employed folks are tax cheats, never reporting all of their income, and living off salaried folks like leeches.
Having said that, I should add that we could move our tax system a giant step closer to fairness, by replacing income taxes (individual and corporate) with consumption taxes, and by transforming as many governmental activities as possible from tax-funded to fee-for-service. People generally demonstrate greater equanimity about consumption taxes, which are simple to calculate, don't justify invasions of their privacy, and don't require complex recordkeeping and return preparation. They tend to view fee-for-service as inherently fair -- "You ought to pay for what you get." There's probably a role for uniform import and export tariffs, too.
Of course, what I'm suggesting would be a whole lot easier if the government's activities were limited to its Constitutional functions. Sigh.
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One thing to consider...is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills really 500-1,000 times more productive than an elementary school teacher? Is that plastic surgeon more productive than a farmer who grows enough food to feed 10,000 people? Using income as the only measure of productivity seems a bit myopic.
The only vocation in America which is absolutely essential is farming. Without doctors, we'd suffer a 1-5 year loss in longevity, without farmers we'd suffer a 90+% population decline in a matter of 2-3 years. Are farmers more productive than doctors? Not according to income statistics.
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