WSJ: Who's paying what in taxes
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I didn't say anything about taxing more.pawz said:
Is always the people who don't pay taxes - relatively speaking - that think taxing more will solve all our problems.allpurpleallgold said:How about rich people start paying their employees higher wages? Then those people will pay more in taxes. Problem solved.
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Thisdflea said:
It's true - I'm just not sure who whines more - rich people or poor people.RaceBannon said:
It's a country of whining victims I guessallpurpleallgold said:
Yeah because America isnt a country of haves and have nots, it's a country of haves and soon to haves.RaceBannon said:If you hate the rich and successful you'll never be either
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Less whining - more working. Then everyone would have less time to whine, and less to whine about.
My point was you won't become that which you think is evil. Your success doesn't effect me negative or positive. You can work hard and fail or work hard and succeed. No guarantees in life -
Discretionary spending isn't the time bomb. Agree on the 90's but the cost of the wars has been grossly inflated for political reasons. Our yearly nut is over 4 trillion and that isn't sustainable and cutting defense won't fix it.AZDuck said:What's funny is that this country hit the sweet spot, taxation-wise, during the Clinton years. After Clinton's tax hike in 1992, Congress and the executive were able to start reining in spending (and some credit for that goes to the GOP, I might add) and making some sensible reforms to social spending. Suddenly we had surpluses as far as the eye could see, low unemployment, and things were looking pretty damn good. Even the recession brought on by the dot-com bust and the September 11 attack was fairly mild.
Then, we had the Bush tax cuts, which neither stimulated the economy nor created jobs. Then the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were not paid for by appropriations, but which were waged with "contingency funding," which is to say made-up dollars minted from thin air. Then the 2008 bubble and collapse.
Since then, we had the Obama stimulus (too small to make much of an effect on the overall economy), and then the meat-cleaver of sequestration. Remember folks, discretionary federal spending isn't that much outside the military.
The problem is us. We want the other guys entitlement cut. We want the other guy to ride the bus so we have more room on the freeway. We fall for bullshit on a regular basis. We vote for idiots.
As a boomer all I can say is
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Agree. Chances are, if you work hard, you won't fail -but if you do, you should quit sniveling and try again instead of looking for someone to blame.RaceBannon said:
Thisdflea said:
It's true - I'm just not sure who whines more - rich people or poor people.RaceBannon said:
It's a country of whining victims I guessallpurpleallgold said:
Yeah because America isnt a country of haves and have nots, it's a country of haves and soon to haves.RaceBannon said:If you hate the rich and successful you'll never be either
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Less whining - more working. Then everyone would have less time to whine, and less to whine about.
My point was you won't become that which you think is evil. Your success doesn't effect me negative or positive. You can work hard and fail or work hard and succeed. No guarantees in life
Placing blame doesn't pay the fuckin' bills.
