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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (6407)	3/11/2004 4:09:41 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Right, Kerry will be raising more taxes than you had previously mentioned. They just do not get the daily play...yet. It will show that Kerry not only is going to tax the upper middle class, but also he wants to increase the gasoline tax for example which will really hit the lower income workers, the taxi drivers, truck drivers, every family, all students who commute, delivery trucks which will increase our delivered costs... Kerry is going to push through taxes that have yet to be discussed. The campaign will brig this out.

To: American Spirit who wrote (6407)	3/11/2004 5:11:03 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 81568

<and if their tax breaks do not create jobs and trickle down quickly, they have to start paying their fair share again.> What exactly does "fair share" mean? You and those of your ilk always use that lingo. Exactly why should higher wage earners not only pay more in terms of actual dollars, but also more in terms of higher percentages of their income. Why is that their "fair share"? I don't know about you, but my parents had nothing. Anything I achieved was due to my own efforts and very hard work. There are many people in my age group with similar situations (i.e., lack of any family money) who chose to take deadend jobs, get pregnant out of wedlock, or just simply party hearty and take the easy path rather than working harder to improve their lot in life. I frankly don't think my "fair share" embraces making up for the people who preferred to party and take less stressful jobs, and then find themselves less well off financially. There's a lot of truth to the notion that you reap what you sow. This is why it galls me to hear this "fair share" BS all the time. What you and your liberal minded buddies are really talking about is re-distribution of wealth in aid of obtaining, and keeping yourselves in, power. Why not be honest and tell it like it is, instead of using that "fair share" nonsense to justify your policies? A household earning more than 200K, with 2 workers, probably consists of people who are working their butts off for whatever they were able to acquire in life. I don't think the fact that their labors were successful entitles others to impose higher burdens on them. While taxes are necessary as a general proposition, the way Democrats address them is disgraceful and nothing more than the same old same old class warfare rhetoric which they've employed for years. End of rant.<g>