Well Ray, I didn't mean to equate earning less than 20K with bad behavior.
It's
just that Democrats love to *punish* people for certain things they don't like
by taxing it as a means of telling someone not to do that (if they just can't
ban it). Just make life a little harder for them. Make'm pay for it! Quite
frankly, we live in a society where earning well above the poverty level should
be a snap for most people and taxing someone for not living up to that
potential, just might motivate them to try a little harder to raise their own
standard of living, instead of begging for public assistance.< As for my
disability, I didn't write the rules. At least three Orthopedic doctors
diagnosed me with A.S. and none would release me to return to work. They said I
was a liability to anybody that would hire me, a simple slip or fall could
either kill or paralyze me and I should consider myself permanently disabled.
The SS administration accepted my claim for disability on the first
application,
without an attorney (rarely done , I'm told) and told me that benefit was for
life. Now, had I never paid into SS, I could have saved or invested that same
money at a higher interest rate and been better off like Galveston civil
servants.
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From: seventhray1 <steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 4:22:48 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ObamaBudget: War on the Poor
Dix, I understand that this "sounds good". And I would venture that as a
UPS driver, you had occassion to visit many small businesses, and likely
interact with many people earning less than this amount . It is really pretty
offensive to equate earning less than 20k/yr. with bad behavior. I mean why
really stop with just taxing them more? Perhaps there should be something more
punitive. It just shows to me how out of touch you are with common people.
And
I have forgotten the details of your situation, but assuming that you live to
be
80, because you are receiving disability payments, should your payments stop at
the point where you receive more than you paid in? How would you feel about
that?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> wrote:
>
> Hey, it's time to stop subsidizing poverty. Tax people who earn less than 20K
>at
>
> a higher rate than those who earn more than 20K. Poverty should be taxed like
> any other bad behavior. No social programs for those that don't pay into the
> system and no SS or Medicare until all previous benefits received are
> repaidÂ
>in
>
> full.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: WillyTex willytex@...
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 9:52:28 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ObamaBudget: War on the Poor
>
> Â
>
>
> > > With my plan, which is to create good paying
> > > jobs for everyone, people would pay next to
> > > zero income tax, and what they pay would be a
> > > flat tax that is equal and fair for everyone.
> > >
> Bhairitu:
> > So you advocate a social jobs program like FDR had?
> >
> No, free enterprise system.
>
> > And a flat tax is disproportionate for lower wage
> > earners.
> >
> So, you're thinking that 2% of wage earners would pay
> the federal income tax for the remaining 98% of U.S.
> wage earners? Screw that! What happened to equality
> spelled out in the U.S. Constitution? I am opposed to
> federal and state income taxation, but if everyone
> paid a flat and equal tax, I would pay my share.
>
> Why won't you pay your fair share of federal income
> tax? You probably get an income tax refund. Go figure.
>
