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sadly for you, good ones make more in a month than you make in a year. No wonder you are upset.
Funny, I thought this thread was closed.... anyway...
Not just the good ones, more often the immoral ones.
Celebrities make more than most lawyers, yet are completely useless.
I have seen nothing from you or your debating style that indicates you are a lawyer. All of your posts are emo-reactionary with zero support for your arguments, no links, no citations, no quotes, nothing. The one thing you have established is that you are not a Christian nor are you a Patriot (and yes, the two are mutually exclusive).
On to the topic, for as much as you'd like the topic to be you... it's not.
Throughout history, without exception, tyranny has come at the hands of those who "corner the market" on societal wealth. Whether in private hands, or the hands of self appointed rulers. It is this historically constant FACT that made the founding of America, it's founding voices of liberty, and the documents (governmental and personal writings) such a big big big deal. There are two other historical constant FACTS... when societal wealth is highly concentrated into the hands of a few, 1) societal suffering ensues without fail 2) civil unrest is a time bomb that often explodes ending with the death of those who looked down upon the masses as stupid, slothful, fodder, commodities and stole their time of life to enrich themselves.
Marginal Tax Rate...............Tax Brackets
10.0%............................. $0 $11,950
Every dollar in this bracket is needed to provide food, housing and transportation. It's required to LIVE... Life! When people cannot (though hard working) make enough to meet those needs, the result is often crime, small crimes meant to get what they need to wake up the next day. You get to keep the same 90% they do. Taxing them at 70% would be disastrous to society and no personal property would be safe. It costs far more than $12k to house someone in prison, not to mention the overburden on the justice system. This would be TYRANNICAL.
15.0% ............................. $11,950 $45,550
This bracket is where the American Dream begins. You have enough to meet your personal needs and can also begin to support a family. They can lift themselves out of the hovels and ghettos and provide a safer existence, start a family and at the top of the bracket, maybe even save a little, if they are still single. You get to keep the same 85% they do. Taxing them at 70% would not only kill the American Dream, but would push them into the take home bracket above, and all it's consequences.
And so on...
35.0%............................. $373,650 and up
At this level, or your living expenses (barring major medical) are met, nice house in a safe neighborhood, good schools so your kids aren't "stupid" (no guarantees), and might be able to afford to send one kid to a top school. The bottom of this tax bracket is now the mid level of middle class. My proposed 35% bracket includes all of the middle class ($550k-$750k) and would provide for all the wants and needs of an average family without depriving them of anything, including a better life for their children.
The proposed 70% bracket is for those making $20m to $40m. Now, some of you may be confused and think that all their income is taxed at this rate. No, you are taxed at the same rate at every level as everyone else. Unlike taxing the working poor at 70%, it does not deprive anyone of life, liberty or happiness. It doesn't take food off the table, limit mobility/travel, put opportunities for education and family out of reach, etc.
According to "God", the bible and the Holy Roman Catholic Church, what you earn (and keep) beyond meeting this upper middle class metric is avarice. The more you hoard, the deeper the avarice, and the more likely you'll damn your soul. I'm not religious, but so many crow about this being a Christian nation, it's worth repeating... again, and again, and again.
The Founders knew that the root of all evil (subjugation of the masses) is the "love of money". For it is this love that usurps, corrupts and subverts the morality of most men and leads to the amoral view that those less than affluent are less than human, as second class citizens. This is a historical fact and a constant of human nature, to which much of the most successful literature in history addresses.
They also knew that all real wealth is created through LABOR. Labor is the result of a sacrifice of time of life and energy that comes from health and nutrition, which in turn comes from the purchase of food, shelter. A moral person, religious or otherwise would realize two things. 1) compensating someone less than it takes to live for their creation of wealth through production is immoral when productivity and profits are up and director shares of the wealth created increase 400%, 40 times and worker wages fall below costs of living.
The liberation of Americans and the significance to world history was not just about tyrant kings, but about tyranny in all it's forms.
That you classify those who make less than you as slothful (blind to your own avarice), cannon fodder and parasites is clear evidence of your wish for tyranny, and to be a part of it.
The fight to be free of tyranny did not end with the bill of rights... it merely armed us for the perpetuity of vigilance and battles against the age old evils derived from tyranny of the likes of you.