On 11/20/2016 09:49 PM, jim bell wrote:
Oh! I see you are justifying robbing people based on
the mere assertion that they can 'afford' it.
No. I justify it on the fact that they're the criminals and taxes
appropriately applied are really a form of restitution. If they
don't like it they can hire an army. They can afford it. After all
that's how they robbed the rest of us in the first place.
Thing is taxes aren't appropriately applied. That 50% tax on the
wealthy you speak of doesn't really exist after deductions and
writedowns nd donations of high-heeled shoes to the Haiti relief
fund. Right? Some wealthy people pay less taxes than that guy living
in a box in a field. Actually most wealthy people pay almost nothing
percentage-wise after all the bennies their plutocrat friends write
into tax codes compared to their UNEARNED (as in they didn't
actually work or produce anything useful to society) income.
And then there's sales tax, which rips workers off way out of
proportion to the wealthy.
It's not the tax. It's how it's collected, and certainly how it's
disbursed (almost all of it to the war machine owned or invested in
by the wealthy.)
I suppose you actually believe that bullshit about hard work and
determination leading to affluence too.
Rr