Wrong again.

Make the pay their Fair Share.

"jimpgh2002" <pmojh1@xxnospamxxhotmail.com> wrote in message
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On 26 Jan 2006 14:40:20 -0800, "Number 9"
<idontlikespam2000@hotmail.com> wrote:

jimpgh2002 wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:33 GMT, "Kel" <ostermanuk@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:10:14 GMT, "See This Now!"
<noir@antiheart.net>
wrote:

"jimpgh2002" <pmojh1@xxnospamxxhotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:51:39 GMT, "See This Now!"
<noir@antiheart.net>
wrote:

"Things are going well, by the way, in the economy. We added 4.6
million
new
jobs since April of 2003. What I'm telling you is the tax plan is
working."
-- President Bush, 1/19/06

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060119-2.html

VERSUS

"In terms of job creation, the recovery from the 2001 recession has
been
one
of the slowest since World War II."
-- New York Times, 12/10/05

http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60611FA3A550C738DDDAB0994DD404482

Exactly. Bush's economy is based on the wealthy getting richer.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

It's bad when a Democracy's upper 3% of the Status Quo begin starving
people
over greed.

Oh, quit inventing things. Nobody's starving. And the rich
pay more than their share anyway -

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923085.html

That chart doesn't say what you think it says. Look again. It says the
richest in your country pay less than almost anyone else percentage
wise.
The richest one percent take 33.7% of the money and pay only 16.1% in
taxes.
The poorest take only 3.5% and pay 14.2% in taxes. The lower half of
the top
fifty percent pay much more than the top 1%. You guys are being screwed
and
wankers like you support it.

You apparently need a lesson in reading a bar chart. For
instance, the top 1% of earners pays 33.7% of the taxes...you have
things *****-backwards.
Meanwhile I don't support the current system...it is far too
harsh on the rich. We need to go to the proposed "fair tax" system or
a flat tax system, IMO.

Are you saying that the top 1% struggle as much as the bottom 50% to
cover their taxes *AND* their bills?

Nope, but that's not relevant to the discussion IMO.

Do you think our country would be better off if the tax burden were
further shifted away from the top 1% and into the remaining 99%? Do
you think this would lead to a higher standard of living for the
average American, or lower?

I think it would be fairer if people who had large incomes
didn't have so much of it taken away.
Why take away the incentive to work hard by confiscating so
much of a person's earning?

But the rich have made their money whilst having to pay these taxes. In
other words if they want $100 million they have to work even harder the more
tax they pay to get to that figure. Your argument is backwards. If
incentives what you want, you should tax them more as that will make them
work even harder to get their hands on the amount of cash they feel they
need.

Another poster thought the "rich" should

pay even more.
For example, generally speaking, doctor's make large incomes.
However, before that happens, they work hard...probably putting in
arduous hours as interns and borrowing money to get through med
school.
The higher the taxes are on these large incomes, the less
people will be willing to put in the effort it takes to attain them.

I don't think there will be many doctors in that top 1% so you're using a
false argument there.

I submit that if you want a high standard of health care,
which is part of your high standard of living, you don't want to
discourage people by taxing them to death.
The same principle applies to other fields of endeavor. IMO,
the "fair tax" as proposed in the book by N. Boortz or a flat tax is
fair for all concerned.

A flat tax simply moves the burden of taxation from the rich to the poor. Do
you have any idea what portion of your present incomes would have to be
taken for the goverment to arrive at a flat tax figure and still raise the
amount of revenue that they need?