The editorial states: "No matter how you slice the numbers, it's hard to understand why anyone would think the wealthy aren't already shouldering a burden commensurate with their blessings.
Apparently nobama does.
Obama BS.
If the voters had meant for that message to be sent, the Democrats would be in control of the house.
Republicans should stand firm on tax rates, and Obama be damned.
i encourage ANYONE making more then $100k to ‘Go Galt’ either in whole or in parts
in whole, you would quit working and stop all purchases
in part, you would radically cut spending to hurt the beast as best you can
either way, firing or not-hiring any/all liberals is an imperative
It means nothing - like "New and Improved." Just a poll tested phrase that appeals to the 80-90 IQ point crowd. You know, Obama voters.
The answer to this question is found under the covers, exposing the real agenda. “Progressives” have control of the ‘Rat party, and “progressive” = “communist”. They want a one-party state with total control, and with no upper class, no upper-middle class, no middle-middle class... in other words, what ever it takes, economy go to hell, for them to be in total iron-fisted control, as in: USSR, Cuba, NK, Venezuela, China, etc. Anything they say is just a waypoint to their utopia.
My favorite leftist is adamant about “make the rich pay their fair share”. He’s a smart guy whose job is detailed analysis of numbers. I’ve been pestering him for years about quantifying “fair”, to no avail. I’ve presented quantitative analysis to him, showing you can’t squeeze any more from them ... but he just clings to the misguided notion of “fair”, offering no more than vapid insults and platitudes, convinced the system isn’t “fair” but unwilling or unable to offer anything more specific.
So it goes with our political opponents. Devoted to the notion of “fair”, they can’t and won’t quantify and articulate what they mean - because the system is already fair, and they just don’t like it.
If the GOP had ANY guts (or any interest in being a viable party in the future), they would start shouting this in every available venue.
The top 5% should pay no more than 5% of the taxes!!
Sock it to the poor who are the leaches on the treasury!
The left actually believe assets should be taxed too. The theory goes like this, if the rich own 10 trillion in assets, half those assets should be seized by the government as a 50% tax, bringing in 5 trillion to the treasury and free goodies for all. Here’s what the simpletons don’t understand, you would collapse the financial markets. Who’s going to buy up all those assets so the tax can be collected, all their occupy Wall Street buddies?
Providing jobs is part of that fair share. Obama is a greedy communist. Obama and wifie have been making over $250,000 for years. What do the Obama’s do and/or what have they done with their money?? They sure haven’t created jobs or been charitable. They should be the example...they are NOT!!!
The left’s definition of “fair share” is somewhere between “more” and “all.”
Pelosi is so damn stupid I'm surprised she can fog a mirror without help. In line of what the article says, the top 10% of wage earners foot over 70% of the tax bill. "The rich need to pay their fair share?" Whatta crock. If that's their mantra, the rich need a tax cut and the 51% who are free loading need to step up and pay their fair share. My solution: If you don't pay at least 5% of your income in federal income taxes, you have nothing in the game and you lose your right to vote in federal elections.
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Don’t even play that game. The problem is that the govt. is too big and spends too much. And they have mismanaged things like Social Security.
To hear Nancy Pelosi the richest scumbag in the House say raise taxes on the rich is a damned insult.
Nancy the richest woman in the Congress gets a full retirement if she ever retires, perks we only dream about, does not have to belong to Obamacare, and writes her own loopholes into the bills.Nancy isn’t going to pay more. Nancy whose business dealings do not include the Union, but who gets the support of the Unions.
Listening to this crone light up about the rich paying more just pisses me off to no end.
The bottom 50% that pays only 2.3% of the tax burden could care less what some ‘rich’ guy pays. Whatever it is, it should be more, because they’re still not ‘getting paid’.
This class of so-called Americans are nothing more than naive socialists that have not yet been compelled to feed the socialist machine with anything other than their votes.
The peasants in Russia 1917 later found out what their ‘commitment’ was - forced labor, directed housing, jobs chosen for them, pay rates chosen for them, etc.
The dirty little secret is that the liberal elite machine knows full well they cannot sustain their eventual utopia with a constiuency existing only to sponge off society - they will have to be compelled to work and live and think as they’re told for the good of the collective.
Garbagemen, sh!t shovelers, muck rakers and the like won’t be extinct jobs and some of these idiots will be selected for those jobs. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of self-serving, selfish, mean, unpatriotic, mindscrewed group of individuals that have no right to call themselves American.
What’s their fair share? In his mind, about twice as much as they pay now. But he forgets that the rich are usually able to take their money and run. Many doctors are now retiring and are not being replaced. Physicians have prosperous, have saved and invested—so many of them—that they can now retire and enjoy. They can even choose the country of their choice, such as Costa Rica, Belize, and even places like New Zealand and Australia and Singapore. What is true of physicians is even more true of the truly Rich.
I wonder when the list of exemptions will begin to appear? I’m sure there are some who will not see another die of their money go to the public coffers. They are the connected ones.