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?
He does pay fairly into the tax system. He’s a citizen. Just like you, or me, he is entitled to government services. Government doesn’t work on a fee for service basis. If it did, we wouldn’t be talking about tax. If you think it should, fine, but it doesn’t have anything to do with tax policy.
The fact is, he only has so much money, before he ends up on the welfare rolls, or, in your world, on charity. You can’t get blood out of a turnip. He has kids. He needs to save for retirement, just as I do. He lacks those resources, and taxing him will only make it worse, make him a drain on society’s resources.
Now, I could take the position that people who make $25,000 are just losers, or they should work harder. But the economy is a pyramid. It functions by having a large number of unskilled workers, fewer skilled workers, and fewer owners. Wealth is relative. You can’t appreciate merit and wealth, except in comparison to average, and to failure. People on the bottom can’t pay more. The rest of us can.
Lest we forget, a significant chunk of that population
I have no idea what the statistics are on “small business,” and those who quote those stats are not using terms with any precision. The Democrats claiming someone is rich is a little better defined than the Republicans’ defintion of “small” business.
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 you have that sort of cash flow, and can’t figure out you need to spend $500 on forming a corporation or LLC, you are really too stupid to be in business. The tax code is designed to provide businesses tax advantages over individuals. I’m not really sure what you mean, anyway. So, there’s some guy running a manufacturing outfit, he’s pulling $250,000 out net of his basic expenses, and I’m supposed to feel sorry for him because he hasn’t sheltered any of that income? If he sheltered that income, how much more cash would he have? Doesn’t he engage in a little business planning, so he’s saved up for new equipment? If that person really exists, he isn’t poor and he isn’t middle class. He could be better off if he spent $800 on some accounting advice.
It gets tiresome anyway - no matter what the tax is, it hurts some portion of the economy. No matter what a spending cut is, it hurts some individual. Whenever you tax or spend or cut taxes or cut spending, there’s something someone could complain about. We aren’t going to solve the problems of this country without sacrifice. My guess is you will never accept any tax, except a flat tax. I hate to break it to you: the flat tax won’t happen, and even if it did, it would make zero difference in your life. So, there’s not much point in worrying over it.
Progressive income tax has been around since 1913. Go look up the distribution of wealth in America. It isn’t hurting anyone. There is plenty of opportunity in this country, plenting of people doing better than average. Business people and upper income people aren’t persecuted in this country. To call progressive taxation “class warfare” is beyond laughable.
Once again, I have no idea what you are talking about. You seem very angry at “problems” that are entirely imaginary.
