PBS l Land of the Free, Home of the Poor - We (U.S.) have wealth inequality of China

Right. Better off than you because he makes more money because he has a better job or is smarter and more successful. What standard of 'fair' do you wanna judge taxes on? You wanna raise his taxes to 90% so he takes him as much as you? Is that fair?
 
Who the fuck wouldn't be able to afford to buy necessary items? A flat tax on everyone above the pathetic lower class who makes no money would make sense. Of course you won't want to tax 22k a year people 18% or anything.
 
I'M FAT, I HAVE A BIG SCREEN, I EAT STEAKS BOUGHT WITH EBT, I HAVE CABLE, I HAVE INTERNET, I BUY DESIGNER PRODUCTS, I HAVE 2 CARS


but im "poor"
 
Thank God only a few countries have ever instituted a flat tax. The indignities of living in places like these would just be unbearable...
 
I don't give half a fuck about Warren Buffet. If he thinks he shouldn't use tax shelters and should pay more, then he should quit using tax shelters and pay more.
 
Lets look at the nurabers using Joe's perfect world scenario.

A person making $20,000 will have to pay $3600. That leaves them with $16,400 a year take home.
A person making $2,000,000 will have to pay $360,000 leaving them with $1,640,000.

Who is worse off?
Who can still save at least 35% of their income and still live comfortably, and who can't? Thus resulting in less money getting put back into the economy.
 
But a progressive tax that pays for wealth re-distribution isn't even remotely 'fair.' If you are poor you already get a free ride in this country in terms of protection of your freedoms and public services. To add onto that no tax AND you get access to section 8/welfare/food stamps/medicare/medicade/obamawatever is completely unfair.

You don't get it? Try to scale this back to a 20 person town. Let's say 2 people in town run the power plant that powers the entire plant. Now 8 people work at the power plant and various other jobs that pay well, run businesses people use etc.

Now 10 people in town simply labor in the fielRAB. You think it's fair for them to demand the other 10 people in town hand out a percentage of their income every year so the poor people can live more comfortably?
 
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