Here is what I have a problem with
1) the left constantly talking about a few hundred uber wealthy and using them as a model for punitive taxes being levied on EVERYONE in the top one or two percent.
OK, see below for how I believe the top 2% is defined:
What is the income level of the top 2 percent of taxpayers?
Answer:
250000.00
This answer changes every Tax Year. The answer for the Top 2% is difficult to interpolate as the IRS reports Top 1% and Top 5%, but not Top 2%, so one has to guestimate. The above answer of $250,000 is a pretty good guess.
For 2010 - a year in a Great Depression The IRS reports:
AGI
Top 1% 380,354*
Top 5% 159,619**
Source:
What is the income level of the top 2 percent of taxpayers
So, I suppose we can assume 250,000 is the magical number. I imagine that to those (especially families) making 40,000 or less, that 250,000 or more seems like a lot of money. Of course this would depend on where the person is living etc. Lets just say that it is likely that no matter where one lives/works in the U.S. (with perhaps a few exceptions), those making 250,000 and above should be able to make their living and find a place to live, setting themselves up to live somewhere between
extremely comfortably and just
comfortably. Still, someone making 380,000 and up is even more comfortable. The point is that especially for those in the top 1% and for some, depending on where they live etc., in the top 2%.... if they were complaining about paying equal or even slightly higher percentages of income taxes than their poor countrymen... that may come off as a bit greedy. Especially considering the deplorable situations that some people have been brought up in. As I've mentioned in other posts, too much blame is placed on both the wealthy
and the poor as being
bad people. When in actuality, everyone is just trying to do what they think is best. If more people could open their hearts and be understanding to the plights of others, we would likely get places quicker.
2) thinking that anyone who is wealthy someone cheated others. this sort of attitude is common on this board
I hope that people don't think this. I know for me it is just the fact that it seem
some people are so bent on not giving, that it can seem greedy at times. Lets put it this way... I wonder if some of the reasons that some of our social programs have been put in place is because in the past, the benevolence of the wealthy alone was likely not doing enough to allow for equality of opportunity.
3) pretending that most wealthy people are wall street investment bankers rather than understanding that many of us are wealthy due to years and years of saving and sacrificing. Years of making conservative investments in solid blue chip companies. Years of not spending more than one takes in. Yet we are demonized as somehow merely being lucky or dishonest.
I don't think anyone questions the hard work it takes to become wealthy or even comfortable. However, I believe it is pompous to believe that the wealthy and or comfortable have come as far as they have without being in a good position to do so. This does not negate the hard work, it just is to acknowledge that it is not only the operator that makes things happen; the environment needs to be right too.
4) and the most idiotic of all-envious people who pretend that they are "helping the wealthy" by taking money from them and the "evils that come from wealth". Cut the BS, that is absolute nonsense.
I not sure what you mean by this one.... ? Could you say more about this?