Democrat presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has no problem with taking 90% of your income

[jasonnfree]

Earn "by their labor", please try to avoid lying by omission.

So what, in real dollars that means nothing. Take 10% of the income of someone earning 30 k a year and it hurts; take 10% from someone earning $3,000,000 a year and they'll whine, but it won't hurt.

How else does one earn if not 'by their labor?" Do you imagine money just magically appears in the bank accounts?

Your claim is that the rich don't pay their fair share when they pay vastly more than you do. So what is their "fair share?" How is that defined?

The slum lord labors not, and checks go into the bank, not magically, for the money exchanged is earned by the labor of the renter. Compare the hours spent, and calories expended by the renter with the time spent counting money and raising rents because S/He can.

"fair share"? I've never used the term, for life is not fair. It becomes less far when one resides in a Plutocracy, for the power elite in such a society looks after its own, and will exploit the hoi polloi in any manner of ways. We know this, it is an undeniable truth.

The progressive income tax, the inheritance tax, Unions and collective bargaining are means used in a democratic republic to mitigate strive between the haves and have nots. Yet all of these are under attack by the right wing which now dominates the Republican Party.

Right out of the Commie Manifesto ... thanks comrade!
The rich are already carrying 68% of our personal federal income tax load. What would satisfy you? 78%? 88%? 108%? And how do you suppose your "slumlords" manage to own the rental props? Perhaps by the "hours spent, and calories expended" acquiring, improving and maintaining them? You seem to respect only those on the very bottom while harboring nothing but drooling hate for everyone else.
Typical lefty.

What percentage of the nations wealth do the rich control...

Changing the subject is a lame ploy. We have been discussing the personal federal income tax burden. You claim the rich don't pay their "fair share." To that I responded that the top 10% of American earners carry 68% of the load and that the top 20% pay 80% of all personal federal income tax. So what would satisfy you? 90%? 100%? 110%?

I already replied 100% tax of a certain amount. With the extremely high incomes comes extreme control of our politicians. Both parties are for sale to the highest bidder. Well, maybe 80% democrat and 100% republican.

 

[Little-Acorn]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

 

[Papageorgio]

Anyone making over $31,200 would be taxed at 90%. That way we could make it so anyone with a mind won't have any incentive to work or produce anything.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Democrat presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has no problem with taking 90% of your income


The only problem socialists like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have with taking away 90% of your income, is that they can't take 100% of it.

But they're working on that.

 

[jasonnfree]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work. Well, they work at influencing law makers to pass laws in their favor. Small wonder that most of the gains in the last few decades have gone to the top of the money heap.

 

[Papageorgio]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

I think that is a good deal for all of us, that way everyone will be equal and I can get a job that pays minimum wage, get all the benefits and tax breaks, I wouldn't have a stressful job and no incentive to do any better.

 

[g5000]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

If they are going to be taxed at 90 percent, they won't.

The 90 percent tax bracket was one of the things that made Ronald Reagan a conservative. He once spoke about how he would work during the year making movies but then would stop working once he hit the 90 percent tax bracket.

That's what taxes on production do.

 

[Little-Acorn]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.
If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.
Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

Here we see the classic lie that liberal fanatics use to justify their theft of Other People's Money: The people who earned it, somehow didn't work for it. If they couldn't repeat this ludicrous fib to uncritical whiners everywhere, they'd have no justification at all for their theft and distribution of stolen goods.

And they carefully comb the hundreds of thousands of people at that tax bracket, until they find the few who actually do sit back and let an inheritance or whatever, draw interest. While just as carefully ignoring the 16-hour days, ulcers, and major risks the vast majority of high earners go though, to create jobs, keep companies afloat, and dodge all the hazards (including liberals in government) that threaten everything they have built.

 

[jasonnfree]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

If they are going to be taxed at 90 percent, they won't.

The 90 percent tax bracket was one of the things that made Ronald Reagan a conservative. He once spoke about how he would work during the year making movies but then would stop working once he hit the 90 percent tax bracket.

That's what taxes on production do.

If you can call what he did production. The progressive rate was set for that reason. Let those at the bottom have their chance to make some gains.

 

[g5000]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

If they are going to be taxed at 90 percent, they won't.

The 90 percent tax bracket was one of the things that made Ronald Reagan a conservative. He once spoke about how he would work during the year making movies but then would stop working once he hit the 90 percent tax bracket.

That's what taxes on production do.

If you can call what he did production. The progressive rate was set for that reason. Let those at the bottom have their chance to make some gains.

How is a gopher on a movie set going to make some gains if the actors and directors aren't working? Huh? How are the special effects workers going to make some gains if no movie is being made? Huh? How are the hundreds of other workers going to make some gains if no movie is being made? Huh?

 

[Little-Acorn]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.
If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.
Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

Here we see the classic lie that liberal fanatics use to justify their theft of Other People's Money: The people who earned it, somehow didn't work for it. If they couldn't repeat this ludicrous fib to uncritical whiners everywhere, they'd have no justification at all for their theft and distribution of stolen goods.

And they carefully comb the hundreds of thousands of people at that tax bracket, until they find the few who actually do sit back and let an inheritance or whatever, draw interest. While just as carefully ignoring the 16-hour days, ulcers, and major risks the vast majority of high earners go though, to create jobs, keep companies afloat, and dodge all the hazards (including liberals in government) that threaten everything they have built.

 

[jasonnfree]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.
If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.
Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

Here we see the classic lie that liberal fanatics use to justify their theft of Other People's Money: The people who earned it, somehow didn't work for it. If they couldn't repeat this ludicrous fib to uncritical whiners everywhere, they'd have no justification at all for their theft and distribution of stolen goods.

And they carefully comb the hundreds of thousands of people at that tax bracket, until they find the few who actually do sit back and let an inheritance or whatever, draw interest. While just as carefully ignoring the 16-hour days, ulcers, and major risks the vast majority of high earners go though, to create jobs, keep companies afloat, and dodge all the hazards (including liberals in government) that threaten everything they have built.

This is another reason for the progressive taxation. Some have such love for money that they will never stop working. If they stop working at a certain level and then back off and enjoy life, it will leave opportunity for others.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Let those at the bottom have their chance to make some gains.

And here's another common talking-points lie put out by liberal fanatics such as jasonnfree: That people making high wages somehow prevent people who make low wages from making any more.

Do these people ever stop lying about those they can't refute?

 

[jasonnfree]

There is only so much money to be had. Some don't seem to mind having a few at the top having more than billions of people.

 

[jasonnfree]

Let those at the bottom have their chance to make some gains.

And here's another common talking-points lie put out by liberal fanatics such as jasonnfree: That people making high wages somehow prevent people who make low wages from making any more.

Do these people ever stop lying about those they can't refute?

Do you believe those at the top have more political influence to bend laws in their favor? I do. A few billionaires have more political influence than all the rest of us combined.

 

[bripat9643]

Then stop supporting the party of welfare queens.

Why? It is either that or vote for Tin Foil hats that think the government is coming to get them. Though I am registered Green, and not Democrat, as if there is any chance to vote for a third party - I take it.

You can always vote for the Communist Party.

Why? You are the founding member of the GOP branch, handing out free money to corporations.

Handing out money to corporations isn't communism, numskull. Furthermore, that's a Democrat specialty. Just consider the record of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Hillary sold her ass to corporations and foreign governments.

Then stop supporting the party of welfare queens.

Why? It is either that or vote for Tin Foil hats that think the government is coming to get them. Though I am registered Green, and not Democrat, as if there is any chance to vote for a third party - I take it.

You can always vote for the Communist Party.

Why? You are the founding member of the GOP branch, handing out free money to corporations.

Handing out money to corporations isn't communism, numskull. Furthermore, that's a Democrat specialty. Just consider the record of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Hillary sold her ass to corporations and foreign governments.

Sure it is, ever read a Ayn Rand novel, or something by Milton Friedman? Government support, even with the best of intentions is interference in the market - interference being anti-capitalist through distortions of the market. It is as anti-free market as the welfare state, child labor laws, high taxation, and the minimum wage.

It isn't communism, dumbass.

 

[rightwinger]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

If they are going to be taxed at 90 percent, they won't.

The 90 percent tax bracket was one of the things that made Ronald Reagan a conservative. He once spoke about how he would work during the year making movies but then would stop working once he hit the 90 percent tax bracket.

That's what taxes on production do.

That is not why Reagan would stop

He would stop because he stopped getting offers

 

[bripat9643]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

Furthermore, what gives government the moral authority to take 100% of your income?

 

[bripat9643]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

As though those at that tax bracket work.

If they are going to be taxed at 90 percent, they won't.

The 90 percent tax bracket was one of the things that made Ronald Reagan a conservative. He once spoke about how he would work during the year making movies but then would stop working once he hit the 90 percent tax bracket.

That's what taxes on production do.

That is not why Reagan would stop

He would stop because he stopped getting offers

And your proof of this claim is?

 

[jasonnfree]

A 90% tax bracket is simply a government-imposed Maximum Wage Law.

If you make any money over a certain limit they set, they take virtually all of it.

Not much point in working harder.

Furthermore, what gives government the moral authority to take 100% of your income?

The same moral authority as the government's right to draft you and me into the army.