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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host
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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (4714)4/25/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Kirk ©  Read Replies (2) of 42834
 
the bottom line is that most people don't want a simpler tax code, they want to pay less tax. a graduated tax system is very simple. just as simple as a flat tax.

Skeeter, you missed my whole point. You'll have to go read the posts suite101.com as I am not going to repeat myself other than to say I was offering to pay more tax and not tax those at all below a certain income threshold. The whole discussion started on me wanting a simpler tax code so we don't waste so many resources figuring out what we owe. It broke down when Senator Boxer took the opportunity to get on her soapbox and said I should pay much more in taxes because someone making 6 times my salary got a deal according to her.

If you feel someone needs more money, you are free to give them as much as you wish. I object when you force me to give to your causes rather than choose my own. Forbes believes there will be more charity if givers have more money to give. I am a bit of a cold hearted bastard and believe in Darwinism to some degree and think we do society wrong to always step in and prevent people from paying the consequences of their bad choices. For example. 25 yrs ago if a girl was pregnant in my high school, she would go on an extended visit to her "aunt" and deliver the baby then return to school and have a new "little sister". Now high schools have day care. Needless to say the birth rate amoung high school girls is way up. We make it too easy.

have a good weekend.
kirk out
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