"Perhaps you would volunteer to pay my tax bill too."
No. I will, however, reveal to you a secret that would benefit you far beyond any handout from me, give back or tax cut for you and the wealthy.
We are in the top 1% and working darn hard for it, while not getting our fair share back. Let me ask you, is it constructive to have high income people feeling taxed to the point where they wonder if it is worth it at all, resulting in a drop of the nation's productivity
I will not shed a tear for you OR anyone else in the top 1 % especially when you blame others because you feel that you "are not getting our fair share back." Not with billions of unfortunate and truly needy people on this globe. Not while millions starve daily. Here you sit among the most privileged class on the planet: You are a member of a tiny minority with relatively unfathomable wealth in eyes of most this world's inhabitants. Instead of being thankful for your blessings and your fortune, well there you go again...now your fellow right dingers are busy talking about dismantling the public education system because they feel it could save them a little more coin.
Have you or any of the other conservatives who are whining about being overtaxed ever tried living within your means, for god's sake.
Well, I have and, thank the lord, it works. I do it now, I did it when my income was half of what it is now. And I certainly tried when I was poor (or for what passes as being poor in the US). Because if you think that adding in all the tax cuts that you crave to your bottom line, that doubling your income is the salve to cure your excessive spending...that others are to blame for you "wondering if it worth it at all"...(here's the secret that I promised)...if you can't feel financially secure when among the top 1% in yearly income, it ain't the government, it ain’t the poor, or the people on welfare, or the liberals or anyone else's false but your own. There is an under appreciated but old fashioned American value that has been lost among the spoiled brats that quote skewed "statistics" from the Wall Street Journal: Live within your own freakin means. If you can't afford your own lifestyle, stop spending so much! (You should understand this by now… It is what you expect all those poor people to do...)
But if you are a conservative, while I will not feel your pain, I will fathom your shame. From what I read on this thread, being a conservative means that you lack the ability to control your own household spending even in the face of wealth....so much so that you must find scapegoats (always among those have less fortunate than yourselves!)
The last twenty years have been unparalleled in the amount of givebacks provided to the wealthy. The top individual federal rates (once as high as 70%!) were slashed. The difference between long-term and short-term capital gains has become increasingly meaningless. The home equity income tax exclusion, once applicable only as a once-in-a-lifetime benefit to the older American, was redesigned as wide ranging loophole for anyone with massive gains on a primary residence. Now estate taxes are under siege, as the silver spoon generation looks for one more big fat hand-me-down to squander.
Yet nothing satiates the greed of Republicans such as the one who started this thread….he’s too busy soliciting pity for overspending super rich brats to even comprehend the great sophistry of conservative philosophy:
Taking money (such as welfare and entitlements) from the underprivileged is supposed to motivate the poor to find jobs and work harder ….etc…
But the opposite action, giving money back in the form of massive tax cuts, is supposed to motivate the rich.
That remains the irony of the politics of avarice…...one must believe that the rich just don’t have enough yet. |
