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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (169604)	8/22/2011 10:56:08 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543619

<<<<<<The tax complexity benefits only the rich since they are ones who qualify for less taxes after availing these deductions. Please do your research.>>>>>>> You are making this a war between classes - not me. I completely agree with your argument here. But just the mention that not enough people are paying taxes and people assume I am referring to the lowest wage earnings - I'm not!!! I don't know how much clearer I can make that statement. Nowwwww, having said that I believe most all people in America should pay some taxes. Should people making 50K a year not participate in the cost to live here? I think they should and if it is as little as $100 bucks at least it is something. The idea that we should get a free ride - that we are somehow "entitled" to live in the best country in the world and have all the benefits that country offers and not contribute in taxes is an idea that I do not share. No body is "entitled" to anything just because of where they happen to be born. That they think they are entitled and that we have such a convoluted tax code so that the rich also are able to hire lawyers or tax accountants means that the tax base shrinks year after year so that fewer and fewer people are paying. That is a guaranteed recipe for economic Armageddon.