# Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474 "2021-07-28T02:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 453
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/453 "2021-07-30T21:52:53Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > We need much higher rates on really high incomes. Sam is very wrong. The one thing he really isn’t wrong about is that the Tax Code renders upper echelon earners _nearly impervious_ to the machinations of mere mortals wrt Marginal Rates: > [@Do the rich pay their fair share?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/921817/101): > > For anybody still interested in this topic, I found another really fascinating page and set of charts: I’m going to endeavor to get each of the charts to display here. Buckle up wink[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-capital-gains-rate-1-JPG.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-effective-corporate-rate-2-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-social-security-and-medicare-3-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-average-marginal-income-tax-rates-4-PDF_0.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-marginal-income-tax-rates-5-PDF.jpg) What’s my point ? Same as the point I made earlier: as a nation, we talk a whole lot abou… And since this thread has a mind of its own … I have no _personal_ dissatisfaction that the linked thread above never caught fire, but – politically – I _am_ surprised that it didn’t catch fire _on this forum._ This is serious shit that _should_ be a fairly high priority issue for every liberal, and – once the lobotomies are democratized [NPI] – every old-school conservative. And nearly every red stater so easily gulled by the shit-gibbon, JFTR. They don’t pay what we’re told they pay, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Meanwhile, we’re all fairly easily distracted by (relatively) shiny objects. Including me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474)._