Why don't you want to tax the rich?

[gipper]

The military provides for our national security. That’s providing a critical service to the people.

The US military is a mercenary force used by the elite to further enrich and empower themselves, at the expense of the people.

Have you learned nothing these past few decades?

 

[struth]

Wealth does not exist without labor
Labor comes first

He literally just said the t


“Work creates wealth”

 

[struth]

The high tax rates didn't prevent the rich from becoming massively richer.

Yes because it was filled with loopholes, massive tax avoidance

And actually drove the wealth gap up and tax revenue down

Historical Tax Rates: The Rhetoric and Reality of Taxing the Rich - The Concord Coalition

Addressing our nation’s long-term fiscal challenge will require additional revenue, including higher taxes on the rich. However, before policymakers succumb to the popular desire to impose higher marginal tax rates on the rich, they should consider whether taxes are as unfair as many people...

www.concordcoalition.org

Taxes on the Rich Were Not That Much Higher in the 1950s

Despite high marginal income tax rates, the top 1% of taxpayers in the 1950s only paid about 42% of their income in taxes. See more about taxes on the rich.

taxfoundation.org

 

[Captain Caveman]

If you are opposed, why?

Why do you oppose aggressive taxation of people making more than $250,000+ a year or $400,000+ a year annually?

Do you think welfare should be reduced at the same percentage as you want to tax the "rich"?

 

[gipper]

Yes because it was filled with loopholes, massive tax avoidance

And actually drove the wealth gap up and tax revenue down

Historical Tax Rates: The Rhetoric and Reality of Taxing the Rich - The Concord Coalition

Addressing our nation’s long-term fiscal challenge will require additional revenue, including higher taxes on the rich. However, before policymakers succumb to the popular desire to impose higher marginal tax rates on the rich, they should consider whether taxes are as unfair as many people...

www.concordcoalition.org

Taxes on the Rich Were Not That Much Higher in the 1950s

Despite high marginal income tax rates, the top 1% of taxpayers in the 1950s only paid about 42% of their income in taxes. See more about taxes on the rich.

taxfoundation.org

When the US government is for sale to the highest bidder, as it has for some time now, allowing billionaires to accumulate massive wealth to buy government is the dumbest thing anyone could support.

All States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of “Court Intellectuals,” whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. The Court Intellectuals have their work cut out for them. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public. The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and to present to the public the true history of the motivation, the nature, and the consequences of State activity. By working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth, to the reality behind the false appearances, the Revisionist works to delegitimize, to desanctify, the State in the eyes of the previously deceived public. -Murray Rothbard

 

[LeftofLeft]

Actually our society benefits the wealthy much more than the working class
Schools, infrastructure, transportation, the military all serve the interests of the wealthy

Actually, everyone benefits from infrastructure. Roads, schools and transportation assets are built because private economic investment ( eg factory, headquarters, call centers, etc.) have been made so that workers can have a livelihood and their own economic opportunity.

 

[Westender]

tahuyaman I think they should be taxed fairly like the rest of us. There is a lot of anger in this country and people have a revulsion of the rich.

I have admiration for the rich and want to be one of them, that's one of the things that drive me. I don't want our government to run a charity for the poor and lazy, that's what pisses me off

 

[struth]

When the US government is for sale to the highest bidder, as it has for some time now, allowing billionaires to accumulate massive wealth to buy government is the dumbest thing anyone could support.

All States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of “Court Intellectuals,” whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. The Court Intellectuals have their work cut out for them. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public. The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and to present to the public the true history of the motivation, the nature, and the consequences of State activity. By working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth, to the reality behind the false appearances, the Revisionist works to delegitimize, to desanctify, the State in the eyes of the previously deceived public. -Murray Rothbard

Allowing govt to dictate how much you can earn, is authoritarian

Allowing govt to have all the wealth is why fascist do

Your argument is authoritarian

 

[Westender]

You guys need to prepare for sharp and painful tax hikes in 2030 and 2031 when a Democratic trifecta happens in 2029

Dems are gonna be out for revenge, taxes are going to be spiking up throughout the 2030s and no a Republican is not winning in 2028 or 2032.

And do what with it? Give free handouts and waste more, they sure aren't going to pay down the debt

 

[Hafar1014]

The rich create opportunity why tax that. Tax the government they take our money away and give to welfare fraud. Tax the government which means tax cuts. That puts money in our pockets.

 

[rightwinger]

Actually, everyone benefits from infrastructure. Roads, schools and transportation assets are built because private economic investment ( eg factory, headquarters, call centers, etc.) have been made so that workers can have a livelihood and their own economic opportunity.

The wealthy don’t exist without the infrastructure to move goods and services around the country
Workers can get to work, but product cannot move without taxpayer funded infrastructure

 

[gipper]

Allowing govt to dictate how much you can earn, is authoritarian

Allowing govt to have all the wealth is why fascist do

Your argument is authoritarian

Silly. Why do you support billionaires controlling your government? Are you stupid?

Rhetorical!

 

[rightwinger]

He literally just said the t


“Work creates wealth”

Ummmmm….yea

 

[gipper]

Actually, everyone benefits from infrastructure. Roads, schools and transportation assets are built because private economic investment ( eg factory, headquarters, call centers, etc.) have been made so that workers can have a livelihood and their own economic opportunity.

And yet our infrastructure is crumbling, while the war machine that benefits a tiny elite at the expense of the people is flush.

Do you support socialism for the super rich, but capitalism for all others?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

why would I??

if they earned their money legally then its theirs not ours,,

they already pay the majority of taxs,, maybe have the people that pay nothing step up and get a job and be a benefit to society not a burden,,

READ:
"I want free stuff, but I want other people to pay for it. And don't tell me to work harder, I don't want to. I just want more stuff."

 

[struth]

Silly. Why do you support billionaires controlling your government? Are you stupid?

Rhetorical!

If govt has all the money., then all the billionaires would be controlling the govt

All everyone else to earn and collecting wealth won’t allow that

 

[rightwinger]

Wrong, we have 30,000,000 illegal aliens who invaded under your turnips admin.

Sorry Skippy

People coming to pick our crops, mow our lawns and make our beds is not an invasion

 

[rightwinger]

READ:
"I want free stuff, but I want other people to pay for it. And don't tell me to work harder, I don't want to. I just want more stuff."

Another diversion from the right

People are working harder and receive less “stuff” for their efforts

 

[struth]

Sorry Skippy

People coming to pick our crops, mow our lawns and make our beds is not an invasion

Yeah, nobody is talking about those people

We are talking about the illegals n coming here

The fact you get the two confused is alarming

Almost you want the illegals to come to exploit to do those things for you, instead of hiring people legally to do those things

Troubling to say that he least

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah, nobody is talking about those people

We are talking about the illegals n coming here

The fact you get the two confused is alarming

Almost you want the illegals to come to exploit to do those things for you, instead of hiring people legally to do those things

Troubling to say that he least

Yup…those people

Illegals come here to support their families
Because of their status, they do the menial jobs Americans don’t want to do