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Red states mull higher taxes

Spoken like someone who's never had to live paycheck to paycheck,

as half the damn country now does. Really your proposal leaves two possibilities: either our infrastructure and education quickly crumbles into nothingness, or the poor just quit their jobs and turn to crime since it's all the same. Just don't complain when they come after you, since you caused it

Yes I have, but not recently

Your approach to the poor seems to be giving them more handouts

whereas I favor a better private sector economy and more and higher paying jobs.
 
Red states mull higher taxes | TheHill



Guess the tax cuts for the wealthy did not bring in anything but deficits.

I thought cutting taxes raises revenue through economic expansion? Isn't that the supply side mantra? Guess not. A major problem with the business tax cut is that it applied to self employed LLCs and the like. People that aren't going to hire anybody like the coach of I think the Kansas basketball team. They pay him as a corporate entity instead of via a W-2 and he pays no state tax. We should all be so lucky.
 
I thought cutting taxes raises revenue through economic expansion? Isn't that the supply side mantra? Guess not. A major problem with the business tax cut is that it applied to self employed LLCs and the like. People that aren't going to hire anybody like the coach of I think the Kansas basketball team. They pay him as a corporate entity instead of via a W-2 and he pays no state tax. We should all be so lucky.

Pays no state taxes- that is such crap that someone can bypass taxes.
Need more accountants in power with the drive to close such loopholes.
 
Pays no state taxes- that is such crap that someone can bypass taxes.
Need more accountants in power with the drive to close such loopholes.

First thing I would do would be to add 5000 jobs to the work place in the form of auditors. Go over medicare, medicaid, private contracts etc.
 
First thing I would do would be to add 5000 jobs to the work place in the form of auditors. Go over medicare, medicaid, private contracts etc.
I agree, same as expanding the IRS
 
"Red states mull higher taxes | TheHill"

Every politician in every states tries for higher taxes. Somebody wasted time writing an article.
 
you do understand that just because the wealthy are making more money-that does not prove they are undertaxed? see some of us believe that taxation should bear at least some relevance to the benefits you get for those taxes.

The richer one is the more public infrastructure one uses up.

It's true of a trust fund baby even if they live in one modest house, since all the enterprises that fund is invested in use the infrastructure. And obviously, if one's wealth resulted from growing a huge company, that company uses a huge amount of infrastructure.





Which is what Obama spectacularly failed to say clearly when he chose the words "you didn't build that."
 
The richer one is the more public infrastructure one uses up.

It's true of a trust fund baby even if they live in one modest house, since all the enterprises that fund is invested in use the infrastructure. And obviously, if one's wealth resulted from growing a huge company, that company uses a huge amount of infrastructure.





Which is what Obama spectacularly failed to say clearly when he chose the words "you didn't build that."

the richest 1% are clearly overtaxed
 
The richer one is the more public infrastructure one uses up.

It's true of a trust fund baby even if they live in one modest house, since all the enterprises that fund is invested in use the infrastructure. And obviously, if one's wealth resulted from growing a huge company, that company uses a huge amount of infrastructure.


Which is what Obama spectacularly failed to say clearly when he chose the words "you didn't build that."

the richest 1% are clearly overtaxed

Bah. Never say "clearly" when it isn't clear or settled; even then, be very careful. You know that....
 
Georgia has been trying to do that for years. Successful lobbying from ALEC, the Koch Bros., and the like got us a constitutional amendment that caps the top state income tax bracket. Instead, our Republican legislature wants to raise taxes on the lower classes. So far, they haven't been able to succeed at screwing us this way. So far.
Seriously. They're going to tax the worker that has no real job while the rich hide their cash off shore. OK. :roll:
 
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