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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (5557)	3/1/2001 1:35:51 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 59480

If it were the job of the government to decide the moral worth of individuals in framing tax policy, you might have something. It is not, however. Nor is the hypothetical youth representative of those at the top, most of whom are hard working executives and entrepeneurs who contribute a lot more to the economy than a line worker. (By the way, the couple that you mention is more likely to make over $60k, and, with two kids, they will get more than a couple of hundred bucks). Anyway, even for the ne'er- do- wells, the hypothetical forty thousand is not a "gift". It is a determination that tax rates are too high for everyone, and a compensatory adjustment. If progressivity is dubious (and it is), it makes sense to regard a tax rate above about a third to be confiscatory. Frankly, as I insinuated earlier, one may as well leave the money alone, it will circulate through the economy soon enough......

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (5557)	3/1/2001 1:40:18 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

The Prez-Select Some people are always the last to get the word. Bush won. He got more votes in Florida. Period. Give it up. He is the legitmiately elected President. About the baron's kids: You are aware, aren't you, that most millionaires in this country EARN THE MONEY THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME. Since they paid more taxes, why aren't they entitles to a larger cut? And that was another misleading, slanted, bullshit liberal fairy tale. Do you clowns ever deal with reality?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (5557)	3/1/2001 8:23:49 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 59480

Since you seem to love stereotypes so much, let's try a different set. How about the hard-working, 80-hour a week research engineer V.P. at a biotech company who is on the verge of a medical breakthrough, is well paid, has stock options, and pays $90,000 a year in taxes, compared to a smart, but lazy and unmotivated casual laborer who has both the mental and physical ability to produce more and earn more, but would rather have the flexibility to be able to go fishing or to the beach on a lark, and pays $350.00 a year in taxes. You would "give" both of them $400.00. That's not "fair." In fact, it sends exactly the WRONG message.