Can you back up your explanation? I doubt you can...
I've now gotten it from multiple sources, starting with the Washington Post. Kennedy explained it once again on Meet the Press this morning. If you want me to track it down for you, I'd like a quid pro quo. You will correct anyone who again accuses Kerry of "flip-flopping" on the $87 billion, and you will concede outright that Bush distorted the truth in his ad.
The wealthy pay more in taxes percentage wise, why not have a bigger tax break for them? Remember, it's not the government's money, it belongs to the people who earned it themselves...
Nonsense. It's the government's money. You don't get services free from corporations. When you buy a car, you don't call the money you paid Chrysler "your" money -- it's Chrysler's. The
CAR is yours. But you want marvelous benefits like paved streets, medical research, national defense, poor children not eating dog food, homeland security, cops and firemen, safe food and drugs, free from the government.
The wealthy pay a higher percentage of taxes -- and get a higher proportion of government benefits, too.
Air travel, for example, is overwhelmingly used by the affluent. The rich use it at will, the middle class rations it, and the poor never get in a plane. Air cargo goes to those who can afford the products it carries, the affluent far more than others. All air transportation owes its existence to government-financed airports, air traffic controllers, safety investigative agencies, federal safety regulations, military jets patrolling the skies, federal security personnel at airports, federal marshals on planes....and federal bailouts to airlines, $13 billion recently. All this disproportionately benefits the affluent. I could give you many examples of benefits paid for by everyone but disproportionately used by the wealthy. They just want a free ride on the rest of us. Spoiled babies. |
