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| Why We Must Raise Taxes on The Wealthy; Rober Reich | |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 28 2014, 05:02 AM Post #1 |
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http://robertreich.org/post/4344201496 |
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| Thumper | Mar 28 2014, 05:14 AM Post #2 |
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There will be a revolt some day. We need to grow and strengthen the unions. That will fix the rich rapists, plunders and pillagers.. |
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| wanderingjays | Mar 28 2014, 06:50 AM Post #3 |
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HELL IN A HELMET
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Hogwash. Do away with all the subsidies and exemptions and make everyone pay at the same rate and most of your problems go away |
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| Berton | Mar 28 2014, 07:14 AM Post #4 |
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Here’s the truth: The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by growing the economy. The problem with Reich and people who thinks like him is that they think the "pie" is one size only. That it can not get larger. That is what makes his thinking so very wrong. |
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| campingken | Mar 28 2014, 07:15 AM Post #5 |
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Since Congress controls the tax system and Congress is made up of wealthy men I don't see any changes on the horizon (unless the benefit the ultra wealthy). Thumper may be correct. If we kill the middle class and have another great depression unlike the "greatest generation" Americans today will not sit at home and silently starve. |
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| Pat | Mar 28 2014, 07:18 AM Post #6 |
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I believe the bottom line can be found in this question, "do we earn in order to pay taxes, or do we earn in order to better our lives and provide for our needs? Taxes that pay for government are a necessity in order to enjoys the benefits of having a collective solution to some areas of life that is cheaper and more efficiently handled collectively. Paying for infrastructure projects, national defense, and air traffic control being examples. Right now the far reaching arms of government on all levels is abusive and inefficient for the most part. This is why conservatives would rather have private enterprise solve those needs we might have. I agree the tax bite is too large for the middle class, but it is also too large for the top earners. Just because you have a hundred bucks in the pocket does not mean you should be reckless in how you spend it, and paying for more services by a government is wasteful. Now if Tom would like to help increase funding, or Robert Reich, then by all means go for it, just leave me out of your plans. |
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| wanderingjays | Mar 28 2014, 09:37 AM Post #7 |
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HELL IN A HELMET
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In other words I've got mine screw you |
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| Banandangees | Mar 28 2014, 10:25 AM Post #8 |
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I doubt Pat's income is in the upper 1% that Robert Reich talks about. I doubt anyone on this forum is within a visible distance of it. Increase their taxes if you must. I doubt that it will change our debt and deficit at all. Politicians will find new ways to spend it.... maybe even expand government. Maybe the increased taxes of the upper 1% should be in the form of the 1% being made to create jobs to put more people to work so they can pay some taxes too.... and take care of their families themselves. It's good for their self esteem..... aren't we worried about self esteem now days.... no winners no losers... every one is even Stephen . So, if the 1% create jobs with the money they would pay in increased taxes, every able body works by the jobs created from that wealth of the upper 1%..... take it out of the hands of politicians who will spend it on everything but the "poor." Since the "great society" began, the poor and dependent have only increased in numbers in spite of all the social programs designed to help them. Somebody is mismanaging. Edited by Banandangees, Mar 28 2014, 10:28 AM.
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| Thumper | Mar 28 2014, 10:37 AM Post #9 |
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Why are the Cons so protective of the 1%ers? |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 28 2014, 12:34 PM Post #10 |
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Because the 1%ers are their masters of the GOP. Double cross them, and bye bye campaign funds. You don't bite the hand that feeds you by raising their taxes. Now the non 1% cons are basically victims that live under the allusion that it's about freedom from government. |
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