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which best describes your view of the inheritance tax?

which best describes your view of the inheritance tax?


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Yeah its an opinion piece that is based on the attitude that the government needs more money (to waste) and not parasitizing the rich enough will prevent the malignancy known as the federal government from wasting more and more money. That is an agenda that sane people oppose

Strangely, I agree
IMO, our governments do NOT have the best public image, this can be improved...but will take time...Advertising (far too corrupt) cannot do this..
More complete open-ness is necessary.
But even then, the Turtles, tea baggers, and conservatives will never be convinced or swayed.
 
sure you do. How do you pretend you made all that money? You claim to be some non-profit director. Sounds like a trust fund baby to me. What relevant fields? class warfare? whining about the rich to advance your far leftwing welfare socialist agenda

the rich paid way too much under clinton and they still pay too much now: only when the rich are paying the same amount of the income tax burden as their share of the income (now about 22%) will they be paying the proper amount and that still means they will be paying far more than what they use

your pathetic rants that those who pay 40% of the income tax are sucking from the public trough is nothing more than trustafarian Nonsense

What I cannot believe is that our Turtle is a "trial lawyer"..
If so - scary.
 
What I cannot believe is that our Turtle is a "trial lawyer"..
If so - scary.
Anybody can defend thugs and it probably gives some people that higher moral ground attitude they need to carry on everyday. LOL!
 
More attempts to appoint yourself chief cook and bottle washer, positions for which you are not well trained, equipped, or qualified. If you would open a book sometime, you would learn that taxes in flat dollar amounts are discriminatory against the poor, and so are taxes that are in flat percentages. Only progressive tax rates are capable of equalizing the burden of taxation, and you might be able to console yourself in the fact that while shares of income taxes paid aren't congruent to shares of income received, they ARE quite close to congruent to shares of wealth actually held. Maybe you have some argument as to why tax-shares should be apportioned to match income-shares rather than wealth-shares, but I doubt it.


Another contender for the Bad-At-Math Award. The only reason that tax-share increased for the wealthy under Bush was that despite the large and rapid declines in their tax rates, their incomes were going up so fast that they ended up owing more taxes anyway. How awful for them to have that happen!


You still ignore reality in your jihad to prove to the rest of the country club communists that you hate the rich

THE RICH STILL PAY MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARES BASED ON

1) their share of the income

2) their cost to society

3) their cost to government

4) their share of the income
 
What I wonder is this : why do the wealthy conservatives find it necessary to lie so much.
There is a three million dollar exemption involved, and then there is a percentage.
The federal government is not actually/truthfully taking ones inheritance !
1....the inheritance tax must go, to be replaced by higher capital gains taxes
2.... we must learn that our ways cannot be forced on others, we must have no more wars....and our great "constitution" says nothing about this !!
We need people who can think for themselves without having to lean so much on the Bible and the Constitution ..


justify this idiocy=we aren't the one's lying

we should have no taxes on INCOME and then all those who piss and moan about CG taxes being lower for the rich would have nothing to whine about
 
What I cannot believe is that our Turtle is a "trial lawyer"..
If so - scary.


a very good one-fear and trembling is your fate
 
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "idle money". Do you mean savings? Yes, but savings are not really "idle", I think. I am talking about money not in circulation, money in a mattress, money burning a hole in a pocket.. I think that the faster money circulates - the better..also money that is well spent is better, as opposed to money spent at gambling....or money that permanently leaves our nation.

A national sales tax has it's own issues not even considering enforcement. How about paying $110k for a house that's only worth $100k? Or $22k for a $20k car? A new car has always de-valued when you drive it off the lot but by an extra 10%? What was a $20k to $18k is now $22k to $18k in the first mile. The same goes for a new house. In either case would your insurance company pick up the tab for the extra 10% if the car or house is totaled by accident or fire? I doubt it.
...One could say that a national sales tax is just another form of tax - which I think is true - I also think that it might be more efficient...
Of course, this national sales tax is another recent topic....resolution ??
 
a very good one-fear and trembling is your fate
No, I also know that your kind is very much in the minority in our nation, and, I suspect its a shrinking one.
True, to an extent about the trembling/fear, but your are there (in your ivory tower) and I am here in my $50K hovel.
Guess who is happier ..in the knowledge that your are not real, but a personification of man's ignorance and fear........don't feel hurt by this, it offsets all of us..
 
...One could say that a national sales tax is just another form of tax - which I think is true - I also think that it might be more efficient...
Of course, this national sales tax is another recent topic....resolution ??
The Articles of Confederation, which many Libertarians hold dear, basically relies on real estate taxes.

I'm OK with a national sales tax as long as stocks and bonds are on the list, too. :)
 
The Articles of Confederation, which many Libertarians hold dear, basically relies on real estate taxes.

I'm OK with a national sales tax as long as stocks and bonds are on the list, too. :)

Not to be rude but, have you ever actually considered researching libertarianism?
 
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Not to be rude but, have you ever actually considered researching libertarianism?
You didn't bother providing any references last time I asked so, no, I won't give you the pleasure of snubbing me again.

Cry all you want about "You don't know what I mean!" but if you won't bother to communicate than it's just more whining with no substance.
 
You didn't bother providing any references last time I asked so, no, I won't give you the pleasure of snubbing me again.

Cry all you want about "You don't know what I mean!" but if you won't bother to communicate than it's just more whining with no substance.

If you are going to make ignorant claims about what libertarianism is about or what libertarians believe I have no obligation to correct you. I will however call you ignorant because you are.
 
No, I also know that your kind is very much in the minority in our nation, and, I suspect its a shrinking one.
True, to an extent about the trembling/fear, but your are there (in your ivory tower) and I am here in my $50K hovel.
Guess who is happier ..in the knowledge that your are not real, but a personification of man's ignorance and fear........don't feel hurt by this, it offsets all of us..
You are right, most lawyers are inferior to ones like me. 50K hovel? That's less than the rec building I play ping pong and foosball in. I am really happy.

Earthworms-my kid puts them on hooks to catch the bass in our pond
 
If you are going to make ignorant claims about what libertarianism is about or what libertarians believe I have no obligation to correct you. I will however call you ignorant because you are.
That's what I've been lead to believe from what little I've read. If it doesn't agree with your view of Libertarianism then post up your view or quit whining that I've got it wrong.

You're trying to paint this like all Libertarians are alike and believe the same things. I don't buy that for a second. That's like saying all Christians disdain the use of contraceptives and we all know that's crap, too.
 
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That's what I've been lead to believe from what little I've read. If it doesn't agree with your view of Libertarianism then post up your view or quit whining that I've got it wrong.

You're trying to paint this like all Libertarians are alike and believe the same things. I don't buy that for a second. That's like saying all Christians disdain the use of contraceptives and we all know that's crap, too.

I'm not doing anything of the sort actually. You just have ignorant ideas on what the libertarianism is about is all.
 
Lol, one article. Is that supposed to be evidence of anything more than just that guys opinion?
I said "many Libertarians" - I didn't say ALL or even MOST I said MANY. I can prove one without a doubt and can suggest that "many" would take his suggestion to heart.

I could also go through and quote all the forum discussions I ran into doing the search but tell me up front - just how many is "many" so I'll know when to stop posting links.

You're the one being ignorant acting like your view is the ONE TRUE BELIEF. :roll:
 
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I said "many Libertarians" - I didn't say ALL or even MOST I said MANY. I can prove one without a doubt and can suggest that "many" would take his suggestion to heart.

I could also go through and quote all the forum discussions I ran into doing the search but tell me up front - just how many is "many" so I'll know when to stop posting links.

You're the one being ignorant acting like your view is the ONE TRUE BELIEF. :roll:

I look forward to the results you have there.
 
You don't think it's important since you didn't answer how many is "many" - so I'm not going to bother, either.

The main result is this:

I never made such a claim. What I said is that going back to the AOC is not established as part of the ideology and is not an accepted or established plan.
 
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