Thanks for proving my point: the criminalization of politics will be a constant downward spiral that will continue to destroy the ability of Americans to work together.
Being rich does not make one evil, it’s what they do with their riches that makes them evil. Wealthy people who want the government to look after the poor in the same way that the rich man did not himself want anything to do with Lazarus are the ones who was spoken of as being hard to get to heaven.
I want everyone who earns income to pay their fair share of taxes. Class warfare is envy, regardless of how righteous you try to make yourself sound.
Not if you are an advocate of class warfare and envy. Everyone should have the same, regardless of need or capacity.
I have no doubt that the justice department investigated all this and more when Holder took office. Having found there was no there there they quietly dropped it.
So you support Communism and Socialism.No kidding. In dollars. But not in how it affects one’s life! A millionaire can pay a much higher tax rate, still afford all the fine luxuries of his or her life. And still have money to put aside. Look at Meg Whitman and all the personal dough she is spending on her campaign against Jerry Brown for Gov of CA. An insane amt. An all time record in personal spending to get oneself elected. But a lower income person paying the same flat tax rate might have difficulty just affording private healthcare insurance. And there are Republicans who don’t want to give the middle class tax cuts unless the Warren Buffets and Meg Whitmans of the world get theirs. I find this absolutely sickening. Some common sense must return to our politics
politics.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/09/16/californias-meg-whitman-breaks-campaign-spending-records.html.
The larger question is since when does an income of $250,000 make one rich?
Since early 2008 when Barrack Obama secured the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. That number at various points was dwindled down to $120,000, but seems to have climed back to its comfortable perch of $250k
It’s five times the median income. Why is it problematic to say five times median is “rich?” It isn’t as if “rich” is a bad thing. So far as I’m aware, there isn’t any proposed legislative definition for “rich.” Would you prefer “upper income?”
What I would prefer is the Democrats drop their talking point about the Republicans wanting to keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaireswhen what we are actually talking about taxing people who are solidly middle-class
$250,000 isn’t “solidly middle class.”
Because its my money. I earn it.
So? I earn my money too.
Is he a consumer of tax benefits? Probably more so than you are. So why shouldn’t he pay fairly into a system he uses more of than you or I do? Lest we forget, a significant chunk of that population that earns the magical “rich” level of $250,000 are small business owners who are no incorporated, meaning they pay their business taxes at the personal withholding rate. If they have to pay more taxes, then that is less that they have to invest in expanding their business, buying equipment, and hiring employees.
Why do people ALWAYS bring this up. It is absolutely irrelevant!
Irrelevant? How so? The primary motivator for people wanting the government to snatch up a larger percentage of income of people who make more is rooted in class/income envy.
Do you have any evidence for this? Why do you judge people and assume that they have ignoble motives without addressing the substance of their arguments?
I’m certain you meant to say voting for a role of government to play. And who says that is not the right thing to do? The priest at my local parish who says his answer to the poor is to get a job? Or Jesus who had additional answers besides that one? Jesus never said leave it all to the free enterprise private sector. He also never said governement could not play a role.
He never said that government should or must play a role either. One would think that if it was a mandatory function of state to take care of the poor, Christ would have let us know. Rather, he told us that it was our personal responsibility to care for the poor…
