Why don't you want to tax the rich?

[candycorn]

If that was the case, there would be no manufacturing, no industry, no prosperity for anybody. There would be no jobs and no market for anything. My husband and I would never had opportunity to work ourselves out of poverty and enjoy opportunities we otherwise never would have had. No poor person has ever offered me a job.

Yet somehow that was the system for 60 years when America dominated the globe.

 

[Independent thinker]

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?

The idea is stupid in many, many ways.

 

[BluesLegend]

The idea is stupid in many, many ways.

The sheeple have been trained to envy other people's money and try to steal it for themselves the mooching sponge losers. They can all go repeated F themselves imo.

 

[gipper]

So you don’t want to cap what people are worth? What are you suggesting then?

Read my posts.

 

[struth]

Read my posts.

I did. That’s why I’m asking

 

[tahuyaman]

Yet somehow that was the system for 60 years when America dominated the globe.

History is a foreign subject to you. I’m wondering if it’s ignorance or stupidity.

 

[leftwinger]

The government spends $7 Trillion a year and collects $5Trillion per year. American’s Gross Income is about $15T out of the entire $25 Trillion economy. Do the math for me.

Any truth in this?

 

[wist43]

Any truth in this?

The usual suspects.

 

[GMCGeneral]

Yet somehow that was the system for 60 years when America dominated the globe.

And you overlooked the little fact we were the only game in town in terms of industrial might. Germany and Japan were beginning their rebuilds after WWII, and China wasn't a factor until Nixon.

 

[BULLDOG]

Then it’s not up to you to decide the rich aren’t paying your mystical “fair share”, Trollwinger.

So, is it up to you?

 

[Meister]

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?

Who doesn't want the rich taxed? I want the rich taxed as do everyone else.
But most with an IQ higher than the size of their shoe size know that they ARE being taxed.
Grover, you surprise me with such a lame statement.

 

[leftwinger]

The usual suspects.

Yet they want us blanket vote across the board in all coming elections?

What would be different if DEM win? UGH! What a deep hole we are in.

 

[BULLDOG]

You clowns are the ones whining about FAIR SHARE, Simp. Why didn’t Tater, Piglosi, and lil Chucky change it when they controlled everything?

That childishly silly dodge must seem effective to you cult members. Trump is president now. why won't he fis it?

 

[leftwinger]

That childishly silly dodge must seem effective to you cult members. Trump is president now. why won't he fis it?

SHUP lil' man. You can't even define the evil rich or how you plan to seize their wealth.
#dummy_much??

 

[BULLDOG]

SHUP lil' man. You cant even define the evil rich or how yo plan to seize their wealth.
#dummy_much??

Rich and evil are two different things, but they overlap in many ways.

 

[BS Filter]

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?

Cut spending. Higher taxes is not a responsible solution. When people run out of money to pay bills they cut spending.

 

[Concerned American]

Wanting the rich to pay their fair share is anti-American?

Why should they pay any more than you do? Are you paying your fair share? Because a person works harder and earns more than you do, why should they have to pay more than you do? That's why taxation should be based on consumption. Pay for what you use.

 

[jotathought]

You don’t get it. The wealthy just need to pay “more.” They always say “more.” They don’t define more. It’s more no matter what.

They want the federal tax burden to be carried completely by 20% of the earners in America. They stop and think about the ramifications of that would be.

At the same time some on the left, like Bernie Sanders want to impose a federally mandated limit on how much wealth one can accrue over their lifetime or earn in salary during a year.

I completely get it ... and it's exactly why I asked how much is “more.” Policy debates break down when slogans replace numbers.

If “pay more” has no ceiling, no target percentage, and no clear outcome, it’s not a policy—it’s a moving goalpost.

When politicians like Sanders make proposals like lifetime wealth caps or income ceilings, it raises a bigger question: who decides the limit, and based on what moral or economic principle?

Once the answer is simply “because it’s too much,” the policy stops being about fairness and starts being about control.

 

[BS Filter]

Rich and evil are two different things, but they overlap in many ways.

No more than evil and poor people. You're just envious of those who have more than you.

 

[The piss off patriot]

Why exactly should we be aggressively taxing Americans even more? And what, specifically, is the plan for that money once you take it out of people’s pockets? Because based on recent history, it sure doesn’t look like the priority is investing in our communities, our infrastructure, our border, or the families who are struggling here at home. Instead, Washington keeps writing blank checks overseas while pretending that taxpayers are some endless ATM.





And let’s be honest: a lot of this progressive tax rhetoric doesn’t sound like economic policy — it sounds like moral punishment. The left constantly frames success as something suspicious or shameful. Rather than seeing prosperity as something to encourage, they treat it like a problem to be “fixed” with higher taxes and more government control.





Is that because they’re uncomfortable with the story of America — a nation built on individual liberty, free enterprise, and personal responsibility? Because the country many conservatives are proud of — the one where people can work hard, build something, and keep the fruits of their labor — is the very system the left seems determined to dismantle.





Higher taxes don’t equal compassion. Government doesn’t create prosperity; people do. And every time politicians grow government, families lose a little more freedom, a little more opportunity, and a lot more of their paycheck. Conservatives simply believe America works best when Washington takes less, not more — and when our leaders finally remember that their first obligation is to the citizens of this country, not everyone else in the world.