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So, you refused to do anything about it.
Then shut the **** up. We're not obligated to solve your problems for you because you refuse to.
No, guy, I expect nothing from you other than being a selfish, mean-spirited, racist, misogynistic and homophobic asshole.
And yet, oddly, you have never been able to prove any of those things. NOTE: The voices in your head are not reliable witnesses.
so there's no chance of you ever evolving into a decent human being...
Decent human beings don't demand what they haven't earned.
...we are just going to regulate your lot to political irrelevency. Because inevitably, the liberal argument ALWAYS wins in the end.
Indeed...at the point of a government gun, regardless of what they people want.
"Tax the rich!!" The mating call of the far-left moonbat.
The problem is, taxing the rich doesn't work. It's not enough money to fund your precious Nanny Government very long.
People far smarter than you have done the math. You can confiscate every single penny the rich have...and it'll fund your government from January to August...then you're back to square one.
How 'bout you do something? Nothing's keeping you from voluntarily sending extra money to the Treasury.
Pony up, Skippy. Put your money where your fat, greedy mouth is.
When you give up sucking on the government teet, I'll send more.
Again...I earn what I get. You changing the definitions of words may make you feel better about your greed, but it doesn't alter reality one whit.
And you're not kidding anyone. You'll never send a dime to the government that you don't have to. You're pissed that you have to pay taxes at all. You think you're entitled to what other people have earned. THEY should be paying YOU.
Right?
Point is, taxing the rich worked just fine. Under that Commie bastard Eisenhower, we taxed the rich at 93%, and guess what, we paid for the best schools and the best infrastructure we ever had, the middle class lived nicely, and even the rich didn't have it too bad.
Taxing the rich works just fine. Worked fine when we did it in this country, works fine when the Europeans and Japanese do it.
Once again, for the progressivism-impaired:
John Stossel: Tax The Rich? The Rich Don't Have Enough. Really. - Forbes
Progressives say, if you’re so worried about the deficit, raise taxes! There are lots of rich people around, squandering money. On my show, David Callahan of the group Demos put it this way: “Wealthy Americans who have done so well in the past decade should help get us out.”
But it’s a fantasy to imagine that raising taxes on the rich will solve our deficit problem. If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode.
It’s the spending, stupid.
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Progressives claim an increase in tax rates won’t stop producers from producing. But they presumably understand that people don’t work for free. When the top marginal rate was 90 percent, actor Ronald Reagan worked just half the year. As soon as he made enough money such that every additional dollar was taxed at 90 percent, he stopped working and went off to ride horses. Reagan later said that woke him up to the damage that high taxes impose.
Maryland created a special “tax on the rich” that legislators said would bring in $106 million. Instead, the state lost $257 million. Some of Maryland’s rich just left the state. When New York state hiked its income tax on millionaires, billionaire Tom Golisano moved to Florida, which has no personal income tax. “[M]y personal income tax last year would’ve been $13,800 a day,” he told us. “Would you like to write a check for $13,800 a day to a state government, as opposed to moving to another state?”
Even Donald Trump, who gets so much wrong, gets this one right. He says of rich people, “They’re international people. Whether they live here or live in a place like Switzerland doesn’t really matter to them.”
We see the folly of trying to raise revenue with high taxes by looking at tax receipts over time. Before 1963, when Reagan rode his horse, every single dollar after $400,000 (in today’s dollars) was taxed at more than 90 percent. And government revenues equaled about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Then the top rate was lowered to 70 percent, then to 50 percent, and then to as low as 30 percent, before it was raised back to 40 percent in the 1990s. Despite those sharp changes, the chart below shows that tax revenue seldom exceeded 20 percent or fell below 17 percent of GDP.
We could get by on Eisenhower's tax rates because government wasn't nearly as big as it is today.
Now it's too big. Stealing money from the rich won't solve anything. As Stossel said, it’s the spending, stupid.
