Thread: White House Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires

Originally Posted by AdamT

One, we aren't in a recession, and two, he tried to raise the top rate last year but buckled to Republican demands.

Why is he doing it? Maybe it's that deficit you keep mentioning?

Or maybe it is just cheap political posturing that has polled well.

Originally Posted by washunut

Or maybe it is just cheap political posturing that has polled well.

Or maybe we really do need to lower deficits.

Originally Posted by TurtleDude

this board crawls with tax hikers who constantly whine that the top one percent (or the rich) don't pay their fair share even though the top few percent are the ONLY Group that pay MORE Of the federal income tax burden share than their share of the national income. to them fair share is whatever is needed to buy the votes of the envious who want more handouts without paying for it

Why shouldn't the rich pay the FIT at the same rate as the middle class does?

Originally Posted by pbrauer

Why shouldn't the rich pay the FIT at the same rate as the middle class does?

because the whiny wealthy deserve to be treated special.

i mean honestly, they didn't get rich so that they would be treated like everyone else, right?

Originally Posted by AdamT

Or maybe we really do need to lower deficits.

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Where is your assurance that any additional income, if any, will be applied to the deficits? Where are those savings that Obama claims he will create. Typical Obama lies and you buy it.

Originally Posted by AdamT

two, he tried to raise the top rate last year but buckled to Republican demands.

He didn't only try to raise the top rate. He tried to raise it on everyone making $200k or more. This hardly billionare hedge fund managers that jet set around the globe in private jets. This is considered upper middle class in some cities in this country.

Originally Posted by Snevert

Why is it that most conservatives are against any tax hike whatsoever, forgetting that without revenues you can't pay for anything. Have you ever balanced a budget or tried to raise more money to pay off a debt? I worry because if they can't raise revenues because of some dopes in congress they will go bankrupt. A bankrupt American government is, like, really bad. Duh.

I think it's because they would like to turn our county into a plutocracy.

Originally Posted by pbrauer

Why shouldn't the rich pay the FIT at the same rate as the middle class does?

Why are rates so important to you and not the amount paid? Do you think it is right to complain about what the rich pay and not about so many not paying any FIT?

Originally Posted by pbrauer

I think it's because they would like to turn our county into a plutocracy.

I don't think it's that far, I just think that most of them are heavily misguided and uneducated.

Originally Posted by Conservative

Why are rates so important to you and not the amount paid? Do you think it is right to complain about what the rich pay and not about so many not paying any FIT?

the more money you make, the higher a percentage of your income you should pay in taxes. why?

because the more money you make, the more you can afford to pay in taxes.

its simple logic. its common sense.