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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (585891)9/17/2010 12:04:58 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574098
 
Ted, you're not going to close the gap between rich and poor by increasing taxes on the higher incomes. All you'll end up doing is punishing those with non-steady incomes, which include the vast majority of small business owners. The rich will just find new ways to avoid the taxes.

If you are making $250+K, its very likely your income is very steady.

The rich are indeed gaming the system, but it goes well beyond "tax cuts for the rich." It suits them just fine for mainstream liberals to live or die on this issue, because it's a convenient distraction.

I bet that makes you very happy.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (585891)9/18/2010 4:02:29 PM
From: SilentZ1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574098
 
>Ted, you're not going to close the gap between rich and poor by increasing taxes on the higher incomes.

Depends on how you spend it. If you spend it on education, jobs programs, infrastructure, health care, and things that make it easier for denizens of the working and middle classes to steady and elevate themselves, of course you can. Certainly helped us in the middle part of the 20th century.

-Z


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