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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: LC EFA on February 26, 2009, 04:42:12 PM
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:28 PM
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Taxes up for the wealthy. Do you favor confiscatory tax rates?
Back in the day, the top tax rate on top earners was at or just over 90%.
Would you favor that today? A sliding tax rate that climbs steadily to that level.
I'll say it ..... do you favor this sort of redistribution of wealth?
(By the way .... to lower the rate at which taxes would NOT go up, now set at $250K, is, in my view, politically counterproductive. If we take that down to maybe $150K or even $100K, would get too many people we need on our side upset. To keep it at $250 was very smart. There are sufficiently few of them that they have no clout. And in today's job climate, the deluded morons who might imagine they would ever get to that income level must be way down, too.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5141653
Pretty obvious what the average answer will be on the DU.
Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:31 PM
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1. Yes I do...
but I do not see it as a redistribution of wealth. I see it as a user fee that maintains the infrastructure (both physical and intellectual) to acquire that kind of wealth.
MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:31 PM
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2. I don't.
I believe that anything over 2/3 (67%) is completely unreasonable.
ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:33 PM
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5. First off this is not a redistribution of wealth
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 03:34 PM by ThomWV
Its an interdiction of profits taken from the pocketbook of consumers being returned to them before every dime of it can reach the owners of the wealth - which if you recall from Economics 101 is the means of production, not the income from it.
Huh ?
Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 03:35 PM
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8. I think that the bulk of the taxes
should be paid from corporate profits.
Health care should be provided to all through a single payer taxpayer funded system.
Individual taxes should be graduated with those having higher earnings bearing a larger burden but the top rates should not be oppressive.
Real estate taxes should be used exclusively to fund education.
Sales taxes should exempt necessities.
You do realize who actually hands over the money that "corporations" use to pay the tax you are suggesting ?
leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:41 PM
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14. **** the Wealthy. Quadruple our Wages!
I'm beginning to think that leftstreet is actually a satire troll. Surely no one could be this stupid.
Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 04:08 PM
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27. Raising wages from the bottom up is what fixes a nation's economy.
Why can't people get that?
With economic genius like this you really should consider running for office.
kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:41 PM
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15. Hell, yes. They will just have to learn to survive on the hundreds of
thousands or even millions that they take home AFTER those high taxes. No one is talking about taxing them into poverty.
You aren't paying very much attention to what your fellow inmates are saying are you.
Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:48 PM
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20. You bet I do
because that's half of what we need to do to get our country back. The other half is crushing the military industrial complex by slashing the Pentagon budget and making those old boys make real choices about defense for the first time in their overstuffed lives.
We have a moneyed aristocracy and a runaway imperial military. Both will need to be brought under our control for this country to survive as anything but just another semi feudal banana republic.
Stupid like this should be weaponized and used on our enemies.
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wow.
they have no grasp on reality.
they really have no clue what would happen if they got their way.
Obama is going to bankrupt this country. do you think the poor will be better off when hyperinflation hits DUmmies?
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wow.
they have no grasp on reality.
they really have no clue what would happen if they got their way.
Obama is going to bankrupt this country. do you think the poor will be better off when hyperinflation hits DUmmies?
I finally concluded today that this has all been planned by the democrats to usher in socialism (communism actually). They saw how government spending and debt brought down the Soviet Union ....SOOOOOO.....they're doing it to the US of A big time hoping it'll never recover.
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I finally concluded today that this has all been planned by the democrats to usher in socialism (communism actually). They saw how government spending and debt brought down the Soviet Union ....SOOOOOO.....they're doing it to the US of A big time hoping it'll never recover.
asnd the sheeple will clamor for socialism
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Great plan! ::) ::) Destroy the military, bankrupt most small businesses, and then spend the next 8 years crying over it while a Republican fixes it all. ::) ::)
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:33 PM
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5. First off this is not a redistribution of wealth
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 03:34 PM by ThomWV
Its an interdiction of profits taken from the pocketbook of consumers being returned to them before every dime of it can reach the owners of the wealth - which if you recall from Economics 101 is the means of production, not the income from it.
If it is being returned to me, I'll take it in one lump sum instead of as socialized anything. Thank you very much. Then I can decide how I want to spend it.
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Great plan! ::) ::) Destroy the military, bankrupt most small businesses, and then spend the next 8 years crying over it while a Republican fixes it all. ::) ::)
Yes slash the military budget. Those soldiers can survive on food stamps. :sarcasm:
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5. First off this is not a redistribution of wealth
Yes it is, you ignorant piss ant.
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Once again they prove they have no more clue as to how real life works as I do about how to fly a 747.
They start with the premise that they are going to get something for nothing and never once think beyond that.
Most selfish group of imbeciles ever assembled.
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Great plan! ::) ::) Destroy the military, bankrupt most small businesses, and then spend the next 8 years crying over it while a Republican fixes it all. ::) ::)
It would take longer than 8 years, ma'am--and, IMHO, the Americacn people would do their level best to make sure that a Republican stayed at the helm for the entire time, and then some.
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asnd the sheeple will clamor for socialism
The only thing George Lucas got right in that last silly movie he made. Freedom dies to thunderous applause.
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wow.
they have no grasp on reality.
they really have no clue what would happen if they got their way.
Obama is going to bankrupt this country. do you think the poor will be better off when hyperinflation hits DUmmies?
Nothing like an unemployment rate of around 25% to get the economy moving again!
They don't realize that if they tax 90% on everything over $250,000, that the folks earning that will stop earning anything more than $250,000! Why would they want to? Just so unca "O" can take it away? Lord what a helluva good idea!
Stupidity must be a pre-requisite at the DUmp in order to become a member!
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Nothing like an unemployment rate of around 25% to get the economy moving again!
They don't realize that if they tax 90% on everything over $250,000, that the folks earning that will stop earning anything more than $250,000! Why would they want to? Just so unca "O" can take it away? Lord what a helluva good idea!
Stupidity must be a pre-requisite at the DUmp in order to become a member!
One of my tombstones was earned for questioning (rather trying to lead a horse to water) about what the results of overtaxation and over regulation would be.
One of my tombstones is for cracking a joke that if I was a lesbian, I would just admire myself in the mirror all day to lioness priyanka. I lasted two minutes past hitting send.
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One of my tombstones was earned for questioning (rather trying to lead a horse to water) about what the results of overtaxation and over regulation would be.
One of my tombstones is for cracking a joke that if I was a lesbian, I would just admire myself in the mirror all day to lioness priyanka. I lasted two minutes past hitting send.
H5! You lasted longer than I did. All I ever did was ask them why they didn't allow dissent! 2 posts and I was history!
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asnd the sheeple will clamor for socialism
Yeah....half'em already do.
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Asking this question at DU is like asking a bear if it shits in the woods.
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Nobody, including even those outside of DU boards, is taking into account the John Galt effect, which will be very real. I would definitely do that if I were in that tax bracket. Just live the simple life, and bow out of that kind of income stream until the country turns sane again. Make a few bucks taking in laundry or something. The Amish hold bake sales on the roadside. Why not?
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 03:41 PM
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14. **** the Wealthy. Quadruple our Wages!
Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 04:08 PM
Response to Reply #14
27. Raising wages from the bottom up is what fixes a nation's economy.
Why can't people get that?
Most don't get it because they're not nearly as ignorant as you?
Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 04:33 PM
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32. Why don't we just raise the minimum wage to $40.00 an hour then?
Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 05:43 PM
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41. Okay by me...
leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 05:46 PM
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42. Sounds good
I hope $40 for a loaf of bread and $10,000/month rent sounds good too.
Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-26-09 05:43 PM
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40. Agreed
That is the real answer. The working class has faced stagnate wages for far, far too long and significantly raising wages is the way to fix this
That said.....I still believe taxing the rich to be a very good idea.
I am thinking somewhere in the range of over 100% taxation on the rich. I would tax them into the dirt.
just my opinion......
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If you could tax idiocy you wouldn`t have to look any farther then the DUmp.
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The DUmmies have convinced me.....100% taxation.....damn str8....absolutely. Tax everyone 100% right from the get go.......reduce taxes and let them retain money according to how long and how hard they work. DUmmies would all be in the 95 to 100% range......conservatives would be in the 10 to 30% range probably. ....and when you consider "No work, No eat", the DUmmies wouldn't be with us long and we could cut the tax rates in half then.
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Its an interdiction of profits taken from the pocketbook of consumers being returned to them before every dime of it can reach the owners of the wealth - which if you recall from Economics 101 is the means of production, not the income from it.
"Economics 101" at the Universidad de La Havana, maybe.
:thatsright: