What is a "fair" tax for all to pay -- % of income and total amount?  
Real hard numbers, not some vague generalities please.

Reason I ask is that I always hear "paying their fair share" etc. and I 
never hear any of them say what "fair" is.  I suppose it depends on 
where you fall on the political and income spectrum, but that word is 
un- or ill-defined.  I ask my more liberal friends and they launch into 
long-winded vague responses that don't answer the question, making me 
think that they don't have one other than "more money."

My sense is that people of lower income consume similar or more 
proportional to their income of tax-provided services than do 
higher-income people, so I wonder why higher-income people should pay 
for that.  Amounts of money spent on various "programs" targeted at 
lower-income people for the last, say, 40 years have shown no benefit in 
reduction of poverty or crime or unstable families, and in fact many of 
these measures show increases in such problems despite almost continuous 
economic growth over that time period.  Not a lot of incentive to keep 
paying for those failures.

There appear to be a lot of people still standing at the station while 
the trains keep leaving, and they aren't getting on them.  Part of the 
reason is that it is sorta easy to stay on the platform due to various 
"programs," and part of it is that there is just a portion of the 
population that is going to be lazy no-count dumbasses no matter what.  
Some people have legitimate needs that should be supported, others just 
don't make an effort to elevate themselves (or take advantages of 
opportunities to do so).

--R

andrew strasfogel wrote:
> And if you want the less wealthy to pay proportionately more in taxes, then
> McCain's your man.
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Rich Thomas <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> "If you want more taxes on people who really make this country run -
>> working Americans - to support yet another generation of
>> sit-on-your-[butt]-and-collect-a-check slackers, then Obama's your man!"
>>
>> http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/27063739.html
>>
>> --R
>>
>> _______________________________________
>> http://www.okiebenz.com
>> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/
>> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
>>
>>     
> _______________________________________
> http://www.okiebenz.com
> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/
> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
>
>   
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/
For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Reply via email to