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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on March 02, 2008, 02:57:09 PM
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SoCalDem 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 Sun Mar-02-08 03:39 PM
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What percentage of your income would you give up, to be "worry-free"? Updated at 2:09 PM
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Edited on Sun Mar-02-08 03:41 PM by SoCalDem
In Denmark, apparently, they are taxed at 50%...
BUT
Denmark pays people to attend college (without time deadlines)
Maternity-paternity leave is PAID
Health care is paid for through that tax
Old age pensions are paid through that tax
Unemployment benefits are paid trhough that tax
Child care is paid through that tax
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What percentage of YOUR income is used for the above items? some are paid pre-tax income and some are paid with after-tax income, so it may be hard to figure..and most people pay different rates of tax, but if you took your GROSS pay and started deducting the above expenses, I'm guessing you would hit the 50% mark pretty quickly...and still have the uncertainty of NO control of expenses with our current system.
( except for the very rich, but the 50% they haveLEFT, would also still be huge..and more than enough for them to live very comfortably)
The costs I listed will hit every family, whether one has children or not, since society "pays" for the inequity of education through our lopsided class structure.
I am also guessing, that as college became a "right", prison expenditures would drop dramatically.
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Lurking DUmmies. Please read this: http://www.cato.org/view_ddispatch.php?viewdate=20071226
fenriswolf 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 Sun Mar-02-08 03:41 PM
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1. well if we had a free educational system
I would probably be making more then I am now with a degree. I would have no problem giving up 50% of my income to have those things. In a heart beat.
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RUMMYisFROSTED (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 Sun Mar-02-08 03:42 PM
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2. 100%.
But I worry about a lot of shit.
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Hop on the next plane to cuba, please.
NightWatcher 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 Sun Mar-02-08 03:43 PM
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3. 90% and I'm working on it
good post
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Hop on the next plane to cuba, please
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Your in the wrong forum BTW.
If that DUmmie wants to spend 50% of his income on going to college nothing is stopping him. What he really wants to do is spend 50% of someone else's income on it.
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Doh! Major messup. Can you move it to the DUmpster?
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SoCalDem
Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-02-08 03:39 PM
In Denmark, apparently, they are taxed at 50%...
BUT
Denmark pays people to attend college (without time deadlines)
Maternity-paternity leave is PAID
Health care is paid for through that tax
Old age pensions are paid through that tax
Unemployment benefits are paid trhough that tax
Child care is paid through that tax
Living in Denmark will also cost you $12 for a bottle of salad dressing, $8 for a gallon of gas, and $100 for a small city ham.
They're being taxed at more than 50%, you mathematically-incompetent leech.
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Why is it that they think you can change a part of an equation and yet have no impact on the solution.
Raise taxes to raise (by redistribution) incomes and you will raise costs and expenses to match so at best it will be a zero sum.
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I am already living worry free. I think that entitles me to a refund.
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They sound like perfect candidates for serfs.
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SoCalDem 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 Sun Mar-02-08 03:39 PM
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What percentage of your income would you give up, to be "worry-free"?
Not a damn dime of it.
The more of my money I keep and the more money I make...the more worry free I am.
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They sound like perfect candidates for serfs.
They want to be serfs.
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They sound like perfect candidates for serfs.
They want to be serfs.
That can be arranged. :evillaugh:
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Not a surprise at all, but the DUmmies are 180 degrees away from the founding principles of this country.
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Wait a second...DUmmies don't GET an income, because they don't work! :thatsright:
So they want to tax the people that DO work to an unGodly degree so they can go to college for 15 years to major in underwater basket weaving, and then be supported by government welfare because they're unemployable?
Sign me up for that!