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Census finds record gap between rich and poor

Honestly, who care what the "gap" between the rich and poor is? Our poor live relatively well compared to their poor counterparts elsewhere. I don't know why people think that equality means equal results. Well I do know why, it's jealousy plain and simple. And its jealousy over material wealth, which for me is not an important measurement of my wealth in life.
 
Wow. Looks like the progressives' war on the middle class is coming along nicely.
 
People have less money, now, than they had in the past few years. obviously, it's going to become harder to pay taxes. So, tax cheat, or not, people are going to get hounded. People who think like you do, are apart of that half of the country that doesn't pay taxes. It's always easy to support laws that effect other people's money.
Excuse me ma'am, your slip is showing....
I and the wife have a 6 figure retirement income, and we pay a lot of taxes...but we aren't selfish and greedy and we realize that MOST of our taxes are put to good use.
We have been paying taxes for over 49 years, audited twice (showed receipts and walked out in only a few minutes), never hounded.
If paying taxes is so offensive to you, just don't pay. It will take years for them to get around to putting you in jail....
 
I don't know why people think that equality means equal results. Well I do know why, it's jealousy plain and simple.

yes, as always, it comes down to character
 
More tax revenue.

Putting mor peopel back to work would be more tax revenue, too. What's to be accomplished by more tax revenue? What's going to be done with all that tax revenue? Seriously, how is all that tax revenue going to close the gap between rich and poor?
 
why, we need REVENUE so observant obama can CLOSE THE DEFICIT!

LOL!
 
Putting mor peopel back to work would be more tax revenue, too. What's to be accomplished by more tax revenue? What's going to be done with all that tax revenue? Seriously, how is all that tax revenue going to close the gap between rich and poor?
By making sure that the rich have less (thru higher taxes) and the poor have more (thru increased entitlement spending).
 
Excuse me ma'am, your slip is showing....
I and the wife have a 6 figure retirement income, and we pay a lot of taxes...but we aren't selfish and greedy and we realize that MOST of our taxes are put to good use.
We have been paying taxes for over 49 years, audited twice (showed receipts and walked out in only a few minutes), never hounded.
If paying taxes is so offensive to you, just don't pay. It will take years for them to get around to putting you in jail....

A six figure retirement income? LOL...you ****ed someone to get that.

Sounds to me like you made your fortune, in our capitalist society, but now you don't want to let any of the rest of us to do the same.

If you walked out of an audit in only a few minutes, then I think you're not being honest about being audited. For every dollar the IRS spends on an audit, they recover nine dollars. The statictics aren't in favor of you producing a few receipts and walking out in just a few minutes. Hell, it take an IRS rapist an hour+ just to look at everything.
 
By making sure that the rich have less (thru higher taxes) and the poor have more (thru increased entitlement spending).

Goobie, you know I love ya, but you're stating the obvious. Let the Libbos answer.

They have to have a perfectly good reason as to why more taxation of the, "rich", is good for our country.
 
Excuse me ma'am, your slip is showing....
I and the wife have a 6 figure retirement income, and we pay a lot of taxes...but we aren't selfish and greedy and we realize that MOST of our taxes are put to good use.
We have been paying taxes for over 49 years, audited twice (showed receipts and walked out in only a few minutes), never hounded.
If paying taxes is so offensive to you, just don't pay. It will take years for them to get around to putting you in jail....

yeah I guess if people richer than you don't think they should pay a higher rate of taxes on their next dollar that makes them greedy

why are you against a flat tax-the rich will pay more but the envious cannot be bought to vote for politicians who promise to jack up only the taxes on the top people
 
why, we need REVENUE so observant obama can CLOSE THE DEFICIT!

LOL!

obama needs to spend lots of our money to buy the votes of those who think the rich have a duty to pay for their TVs and cars. By jacking taxes up on those who already pay most of the taxes, Obama can appeal to class envy, claim that he isn't busting the deficit with his bribery of the entitlement addicts and he won't lose the votes of the middle class because he wont be jacking their taxes up
 
Honestly, who care what the "gap" between the rich and poor is? Our poor live relatively well compared to their poor counterparts elsewhere. I don't know why people think that equality means equal results. Well I do know why, it's jealousy plain and simple. And its jealousy over material wealth, which for me is not an important measurement of my wealth in life.

Our "poor" are rich compared to other countries, and some of the working poor need to get realistic with their spending.
I know SOME poor and SOME working poor who are didn't get that way because of wasting their money, stuff happens and not everyone is prepared for that stuff, usually illness stuff. BUT, I know more than a few "poor" who have multiple cell phones in the family, cable TV, internet, and go out to dinner too often, and THEN say they can't afford to buy health insurance. The govt does juggle the numbers when determining who is poor. I was "poor" when in the navy as a married E5, but never got assistance of any kind, and never got excused from paying taxes.
All that aside, why should the rich be excused from paying taxes. A few more percentage points isn't going to kill them, despite all the whining on DP from those making over $250K....
 
yeah I guess if people richer than you don't think they should pay a higher rate of taxes on their next dollar that makes them greedy

why are you against a flat tax-the rich will pay more but the envious cannot be bought to vote for politicians who promise to jack up only the taxes on the top people

Are you working extra hard to seem stupid today? Show me where I said anything against a flat tax....
 
obama needs to spend lots of our money to buy the votes of those who think the rich have a duty to pay for their TVs and cars. By jacking taxes up on those who already pay most of the taxes, Obama can appeal to class envy, claim that he isn't busting the deficit with his bribery of the entitlement addicts and he won't lose the votes of the middle class because he wont be jacking their taxes up


how dare he not boost the national deficit so that tax breaks can be given to billionaires [/s]
 
Our "poor" are rich compared to other countries, and some of the working poor need to get realistic with their spending.
I agree with this. I think all of our bleeding hearts in this country need to spend a month or two in the Turd World. Our "poor" people live like kings compared to the poor of the Turd World.
 
Must've had to steal from a lot of poor people to accomplish that!
Navy retirement and social security make up most of mine. In addition I get about $600 per month from my civilian retirements.
Wife has teacher retirement and social security. plus some incentive money to retire early, that part goes away in a few years..
Adds up to a bit over $115K per year. Plus for 30 years we saved/invested a lot of money so we wouldn't retire poor like our parents did.
We prepared for our retirement, none of it was stolen....
 
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Our "poor" are rich compared to other countries, and some of the working poor need to get realistic with their spending.
I know SOME poor and SOME working poor who are didn't get that way because of wasting their money, stuff happens and not everyone is prepared for that stuff, usually illness stuff. BUT, I know more than a few "poor" who have multiple cell phones in the family, cable TV, internet, and go out to dinner too often, and THEN say they can't afford to buy health insurance. The govt does juggle the numbers when determining who is poor. I was "poor" when in the navy as a married E5, but never got assistance of any kind, and never got excused from paying taxes.
All that aside, why should the rich be excused from paying taxes. A few more percentage points isn't going to kill them, despite all the whining on DP from those making over $250K....

WTF do you get off saying "a few percentage points won't hurt them"? YOu have no idea what you are talking about. My kid goes to an expensive school I can afford it but I know several parents who have tons of student loans and a few kids who cannot afford a 30-40K increase in their federal income taxes which can easily occur especially if you have investment income. if you are paying 250K a year in taxes and half your income is capital gains or dividends you can easily face 50K more in taxes next year.

If you were like my late mother, all of her income came from dividends meaning your taxes would go from 15% on your next dollar to 40%
 
Navy retirement and social security make up most of mine. In addition I get about $600 per month from my civilian retirements.
Wife has teacher retirement and social security.
Adds up to a bit over $115K per year. Plus for 30 years we saved/invested a lot of money so we wouldn't retire poor like our parents did.
Tell me what part of that was stolen....

Sounds to me like you're exploiting the system like a mutha'.

I wasn't aware that people could draw SS and retirement pensions. Sounds like bulllllllllllllllllllllllllllll****. That, or you're defrauding the government. Someone probably needs to look into what you're doing.

Ultimately, I see why you support more taxation. So you can make sure your meal ticket keeps coming in.
 
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I agree with this. I think all of our bleeding hearts in this country need to spend a month or two in the Turd World. Our "poor" people live like kings compared to the poor of the Turd World.

I learned that when I flew into Cali Columbia (a modern airport built to host the pan am games) and saw people living in shanties right next to the runways
 
Navy retirement and social security make up most of mine. In addition I get about $600 per month from my civilian retirements.
Wife has teacher retirement and social security. plus some incentive money to retire early, that part goes away in a few years..
Adds up to a bit over $115K per year. Plus for 30 years we saved/invested a lot of money so we wouldn't retire poor like our parents did.
Tell me what part of that was stolen....
I was being facetious when I posted that. Maybe we'll get some people that aren't to explain why they think successful people stole what they have.
 
I was being facetious when I posted that. Maybe we'll get some people that aren't to explain why they think successful people stole what they have.

Like that's gonna happen...:rofl
 
Like that's gonna happen...:rofl
Yeah, that's why there is the IRS. None of them has the balls to look you in the eye when they steal your money.
 
A six figure retirement income? LOL...you ****ed someone to get that.

Sounds to me like you made your fortune, in our capitalist society, but now you don't want to let any of the rest of us to do the same.

If you walked out of an audit in only a few minutes, then I think you're not being honest about being audited. For every dollar the IRS spends on an audit, they recover nine dollars. The statictics aren't in favor of you producing a few receipts and walking out in just a few minutes. Hell, it take an IRS rapist an hour+ just to look at everything.

again you accuse me of lying....are you really that stupid? When you have rental property and you deduct expenses, they expect you to have receipts, and WE DID, so audit was over in a short time. They were prepared, so were we. It is that simple.
I take it you have been audited and it didn't go well, too bad, too sad. I spent one tax season doing returns for people, and a few of my clients wanted to deduct expenses they couldn't prove.
I don't know what you are doing for a living, but it sounds like you want it all, and right now. It took us 30 years to accumulate our 'wealth'....
How old are you? If you want some financial advice, I can give it. Problem is, most people won't take it. They want to live very well now, and very well later, and it takes a lot of income to do both...
 
Yeah, that's why there is the IRS. None of them has the balls to look you in the eye when they steal your money.

Hell, the IRS doesn't either. They steal your money electronically, now
 
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