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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host
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To: Follies who wrote (14067)5/10/2001 10:57:36 AM
From: Nandu  Read Replies (2) of 42834
 
I never understood what is fair about the governent stealing from one person to give to someone else,

You are wrong to call taxes "stealing". Government is how
a civilized society organizes itself. How do you suggest the
government should fund itself? Print more money?

but maybe you can answer this simple question. John works 40 hours a week and makes $50k a year, Mary works two jobs for a total of 80 hours a week and $100k. Why should Mary pay more than twice as much tax as John? I can't even understand why she shouldn't pay the same as John, or maybe even less than John because she is obviously more productive and the greater good of society benefits from her actions. Should someone be rewarded for working harder?

That taxes or tax rebates should have something to do with
rewarding people for what they do is a "commie liberal concept", isn't it?

In my opinion, a higher income/more wealthy individual gets more protection from the government, and protecting its people is the primary function of government. Therefore, I don't find anything wrong with the idea of the rich paying more.

I also don't understand this notion that death taxes are wrong while income taxes are wrong. Is there some divine edict or law of nature which says that income is taxable, but wealth is not? Wealth needs as much, or more, protection as income. Pay up.
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