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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
Gawain said:
In your dreams
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In my dreams, I fly griffins and ride to war with Hannibal Barca. I'd have to be in some serious Inception dealio going on to dream of a libertarian making sense on anything beyond foreign policy.

Please, tell me, what is the flaw in my dragon metaphor? I do like to learn from my mistakes; only point them out for me, kind sir.
 
Gawain said:
Still only around 17 pages as i recall lol. Just because your a progressive doesnt mean the rest of us have to go along.
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Dd say you had to go along. And I said history, not pages. History influences how words are read. It is false to believe any egalitarian document s so clear as to have all read it the same way.
 
Vapor said:
In my dreams, I fly griffins and ride to war with Hannibal Barca. I'd have to be in some serious Inception dealio going on to dream of a libertarian making sense on anything beyond foreign policy.

Please, tell me, what is the flaw in my dragon metaphor? I do like to learn from my mistakes; only point them out for me, kind sir.
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And you fix my quotes. Exactly the point. The less those idiots of either party do in Washington the happier I am. We need them to remove laws not make new ones.
 
Boo Radley said:
Dd say you had to go along. And I said history, not pages. History influences how words are read. It is false to believe any egalitarian document s so clear as to have all read it the same way.
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Only to progressives.
 
Gawain said:
And you fix my quotes. Exactly the point. The less those idiots of either party do in Washington the happier I am. We need them to remove laws not make new ones.
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Stop bolding a single sentence in my posts and ignoring the rest. Have you ever fenced? I'm jabbing you repeatedly in the chest while you wave your foil at your side. Either riposte or cry out touché. Don't just spout ideologies without acknowledging the opposition.
 
Vapor said:
Stop bolding a single sentence in my posts and ignoring the rest. Have you ever fenced? I'm jabbing you repeatedly in the chest while you wave your foil at your side. Either riposte or cry out touché. Don't just spout ideologies without acknowledging the opposition.
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I chopped your head off long ago but your still flailing about :)
 
Gawain said:
I chopped your head off long ago but your still flailing about :)
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:lamo
That's rich. Please copy and paste the point at which my head was chopped off. I'd truly love to see it. While you're at it, why not give me some feedback on that metaphor earlier that was apparently so bad? Should be a nice exercise in futility for you. Perhaps you could even use punctuation this time!
 
sKiTzo said:
This whole "fiscal cliff" thing, IMO, is really about one thing. GREED. The same people who are pushing to raise the debt ceiling are the same ones who don't want to pay a little more, and being such an elite small sliver, are probably the same ones who have been benefitting from these overexpenditures. If you are one of the small sliver of wealthiest at the top, you make obscene amounts of money. You live vastly beyond comfortably, and anything you want, you can easily afford ten thousandfold. So what's REALLY going on?
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Greed harms others, it's like assault. The rich are using their income like a weapon! Therefore: Assault-income, like assault weapon, and they're rich, which means it's a high-capacity assault income! And I bet many rich folks have security guards and such, making it a military grade high capacity assault income! Why do you need all that money? Huh? Why? Why do you need it? what are you going to spend it all on? Hmm? Why do you need it?
 
A moot point now that both houses of Congress have increased the tax rates for the wealthiest.
 
Bob Blaylock said:
Greed is not wanting to keep what is rightfully yours.
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Greed is selfishness and a selfish desire for something.


Greed is wanting to take what is not rightfully yours.
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Thats called theft..


Yours is the position of a robber calling his victim “greedy” for not wanting to be robbed. No matter how much you want to argue otherwise, it is the robber who is greedy, and not the one being robbed.
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So we rob rich people if taxes go higher? :confused:
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Greed is selfishness and a selfish desire for something.



Thats called theft..






So we rob rich people if taxes go higher? :confused:
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Like a desire for other peoples money

Thats right

Right again
 
Gawain said:
Like a desire for other peoples money

Thats right

Right again
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i have a desire for other peoples money by wanting to raise taxes on the rich? Interesting premise..
 
TheDemSocialist said:
i have a desire for other peoples money by wanting to raise taxes on the rich? Interesting premise..
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You may not want it for yourself but want to give it to others. If I rob you and give to the poor I still robbed you.
 
Gawain said:
You may not want it for yourself but want to give it to others. If I rob you and give to the poor I still robbed you.
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Robbing is illegal.
Taxation is legal and is not theft.
 
Gawain said:
Yes and its voluntary as well right? Certain types of taxation are constitutional.
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No its not.
And taxes are constitutional. Article 1 Section 8
 
TheDemSocialist said:
i have a desire for other peoples money by wanting to raise taxes on the rich? Interesting premise..
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technically yes, since the services you will receive will be paid for by other people's money, if you accept/use those services, you do.
 
OscarB63 said:
technically yes, since the services you will receive will be paid for by other people's money, if you accept/use those services, you do.
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They will be paid by everyones $$$ because everyone pays into the system one way or another.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
So then you must approve of your taxes being raised as well right? You're trying to say that people who pay more, a LOT more, not only in real dollars but also percentage aren't paying enough.
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like I keep saying. it always seems to be those paying the least that complain someone else is not paying enough. :shrug:
 
TheDemSocialist said:
They will be paid by everyones $$$ because everyone pays into the system one way or another.
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like your good comrade sez: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right? ;)
 
OscarB63 said:
like your good comrade sez: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right? ;)
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I mean i guess on the premise of taxation that would how it would be in a perfect world.
 
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