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Is it unreasonable for the wealthiest to pay a little more?

Is it unreasonable to pay a little more?

  • Yes. I'm a greedy bastard!! I need MORE!!!

    Votes: 21 27.6%

  • No. There's comes a point in wealthiness where it just doesn't even matter anymore.

    Votes: 48 63.2%

  • I'm not sure.

    Votes: 7 9.2%
  • Total voters
    76
iguanaman said:
Every dollar you receive is made possible by this Govt. that you despise so much. Without it you would get nothing, and have nothing. Someday you will realize this and hate yourself for being such a skinflint.
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that is both a stupid response and irrelevant. I don't get anything extra that you don't get. Its a moronic argument on your part
 
TurtleDude said:
that is both a stupid response and irrelevant. I don't get anything extra that you don't get. Its a moronic argument on your part
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You likely use it more, depend it more, and overall benefit more.
 
iguanaman said:
Since Turtle says he is a lawyer, his entire income is dependent on the Justice system which is financed by tax dollars.
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you'd be wrong, I also own a major farming operation, several holding companies and a manufacturing business.
 
Boo Radley said:
Logic is evidence.
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the logical conclusion is that those who are fed by the government use more government than those of us who pay hundreds for each dollar of service we get

for your moronic argument to be "logical" you would have to show that the 5% who pay more income taxes than the rest of the country combined, use more of the services paid by the FIT than the other 95%
 
TurtleDude said:
the logical conclusion is that those who are fed by the government use more government than those of us who pay hundreds for each dollar of service we get

for your moronic argument to be "logical" you would have to show that the 5% who pay more income taxes than the rest of the country combined, use more of the services paid by the FIT than the other 95%
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As I've noted for you, most people work. The reason you pay more is because laws have favored you, creating a gap. You tide did not raise all ships, and this is what comes with the gap.
 
Boo Radley said:
As I've noted for you, most people work. The reason you pay more is because laws have favored you, creating a gap. You tide did not raise all ships, and this is what comes with the gap.
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most people work? where did you get that statistic

saying the laws favor me is crap-its like saying that schools favor smarter kids or the rules of tennis favor the better players.

I pay more because people like me have less votes than those who don't pay enough
 
TurtleDude said:
you'd be wrong, I also own a major farming operation, several holding companies and a manufacturing business.
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So we can add farm subsidies, tax shelters and what do you make? I bet the Govt. has given a hand in that too.
 
TurtleDude said:
most people work? where did you get that statistic

saying the laws favor me is crap-its like saying that schools favor smarter kids or the rules of tennis favor the better players.

I pay more because people like me have less votes than those who don't pay enough
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It's linked earlier in the tread.

And no, you merely can't bleed a stone. Keep demonizing working people, growing the gap, and you'll be saying more and more.
 
TurtleDude said:
most people work? where did you get that statistic

saying the laws favor me is crap-its like saying that schools favor smarter kids or the rules of tennis favor the better players.

I pay more because people like me have less votes than those who don't pay enough
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Man equality under the law is such a bitch ain't it:roll:

To bad one just can not pay for it.......
 
iguanaman said:
So we can add farm subsidies, tax shelters and what do you make? I bet the Govt. has given a hand in that too.
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Everytime you post something about me you are speculating and you are wrong
 
EarlzP said:
Subsidized by the government?

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Do you have any job openings?
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No to either-but If I do I will tell you who to send the resume to.
 
winston53660 said:
Wanna bet he doesn't know how bail hay much less buck it....
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wanna bet you have no clue what sort of stuff we grow-hay isn't one of them. our main crop was way up a few months ago-almost 8.50 a bushel
 
TurtleDude said:
wanna bet you have no clue what sort of stuff we grow-hay isn't one of them. our main crop was way up a few months ago-almost 8.50 a bushel
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And I bet you don't know how to get the stuff out of the ground left to your own devices be it hay, soybeans, corn, cranberries, rice, potatoes or whatever.

I have cut, bailed and feed hay to cattle and then slaughtered them.
 
Top Two Percent To GOP: Tax Us

"On Tuesday, FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith, an adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, said that the notion that tax hikes on the richest Americans would kill jobs was simply "mythology."

And on Monday, a gathering of the nation's top defense executives took a surprising turn when they endorsed tax rate increases on the wealthy and cuts of up to $150 billion to the Pentagon's budget. Top executives from Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, TASC and RTI International Metals appeared at the National Press Club at an event organized by the Aerospace Industries Association, the top defense contractor lobbyist.

David Langstaff, CEO of TASC, said that the executives were speaking out because so far leaders of the defense industry were "talking a good game, but are still unwilling to park short-term self-interest." After the event, he told a defense reporter for Politico that tax rates need to go up.

“In the near term, [income tax rates] need to go up some,” Langstaff said. "This is a fairness issue -- there needs to be recognition that we’re not collecting enough revenue. In the last decade we’ve fought two wars without raising taxes. So I think it does need to go up.”"

"AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who was also at the meeting, said in a statement that a deal "will require a compromise involving an increase in both tax rates and revenue."

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, meanwhile, told CNN after the meeting that "if we had to lift up the marginal rate, I would do that."

Top Two Percent To GOP: Tax Us
 
TurtleDude said:
wanna bet you have no clue what sort of stuff we grow-hay isn't one of them. our main crop was way up a few months ago-almost 8.50 a bushel
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That puts you NOT growing corn or soy, so it makes me ask what you think of the massive cash subsidies the US gives those crops? Not really outside of this thread, as more than 1,000 people inside the beltway receive farm direct cash subsidy cheques greater than $1,000,000.00 per year, I am told. My wife and I drove down to PA last summer to a contract I had there. The one thing we could not understand is how a country can survive and feed its people when it grows nothing but corn and soy under subsidy (just our unavoidable reaction to seeing not one grain crop beside the interstate after we left MT).
 
Boo Radley said:
Tax cuts alone? Not much. Same can be said for the cuts most talk about. Only a balanced approach, one that includes both tax increases and spending cuts will have any chance of being successful.
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All I can say is your wrong, and i don't understand the mind of a liberal, probably how you don't understand the mind of a conservative.
 
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