Zander
Platinum Member
Of course the govt is the taker. The founders said they could TAX. And the courts have said just cause you don't like a particular tax, you can bitch, but pay or go to jail. THAT isn't the question. The question is whether one can claim some moral highground that they don't take, when they're breathing the clean air.You and everyone else paid for that deduction with higher tax rates.Then you are taking advantage of the biggest individual tax expenditure out there!Yup and I pay for part of it too. Nothing is free. The cost has gone up 60% in the last two years because of that POS the ACA.
Its a benefit I've never used in all my working life.
So you are a taker.
No doubt and I paid for that deduction with my tax dollars.
Rube.
Every dollar you deduct is a dollar that has to be made up for at someone else's expense, making you a taker.
Wakey wakey!
Sorry Rube5000, the taxpayers are not the TAKER, the government is the TAKER.
Stop drinking the piss.
But again, how would you feel with a flat tax and no decuctions? Are there takers then?
I am totally in favor of a flat tax with no deductions. Government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.