Now now, Mr. Z., you’re misrepresenting what I said. I was just responding to your suggestion that people who can afford to pay for health insurance should not get money from the taxpayers for that purpose. I wanted to know if you were willing to apply that principle across the board: if you believe that people who can afford to pay for their own retirement should not get Social Security money, or if people who are rich enough to maintain large households should not get dependent deductions. (Thank you Curt for explaining why mortgage deductions are a different issue, btw.)
It may shock you to find that I really don’t hate or despise or envy rich people, nor do I idealize poor people. I don’t think your premise that nobody could really want to tax the wealthy unless they felt personal resentment against them will hold up against actual evidence. I just think that running a society costs money, we all have to chip in to pay for it, and the rich must chip in more because they can best afford it. If you don’t like that position, well, there’s not much I can do about it: see you at the polls.
Yes, that would be fine with me as long as the spending, and the tax were to be decreased. I don’t mind less deductions if my tax rate is lowered. If it is not, then no, I don’t support these items because they are merely increasing tax benefits to the poor while increassing the payments of the rich. I do nto support any tax increases when we are running a surplus that does not figure in Soc Sec. As it stands, the top 6% pay 90% of the taxes.
I did overstate the anti-rich sentiment. Sorry. Actually, i think that people just have pie in the sky views of what $250k per year looks like, or even $1mm for that matter. That and a few libs here find it hard to believe that they “earned” it…which doesn’t matter a lick anyway.
Pie in the sky views?!?!?!!? Okay, tell me then what 250K or 1 million a year looks like! I recently moved out, but when I was living with my mom we had a nice little life. New car, nice house, restraunts whenever we wanted, decent clothes, a bit of travel, cash saved for my college and that sort of thing. We didn’t have a lot just to spend to be spending, but I never couldn’t get something I needed (indeed, we could usually get whatever we wanted). But yes, I would love to hear the hardships of people who make TWENTY-EIGHT times what it take my mother and I to live a decent life. Or the poor poor people who only make SEVEN times that. Yes, please set me straight. Here I was thinking once your basic needs were met, anything over that makes you pretty damn fortuneate. But I guess I wrong.
You would be suprised at how expenses match income…but What difference does it make? Does the fact that someone has a nice house, sweet car and is not scrounging for food mean that theyie property should be taken from them? THat is the question.