I get all this, don't love the taxes I pay personally, and am not blind to
the flight of manufacturing jobs from Philly and other northern cities to
the south and out of the country. But please, that story was not written to
describe our local tax structure, where the large burden of taxes fall
squarely on the back of the middle and upper middle classes, not the super
wealthy.
Did you ever stop to wonder WHY there are no "super wealthy" in our local environment and why the "middle class" is forced to shoulder the load?
... Maybe the "super wealthy" already left!
It blatantly oversimplifies and distorts the actual tax breakdown.
Excuse me? How is that so? ... oh you mean the "tax avoidance" games that everybody plays so that they don't have to pay their fair share of taxes -- things like mortgage interest and medical expense deductions.
It blubbers about how the other nine men shoot themselves in the foot
(feet?) by picking on the poor tenth man, when really it's the ones in the
middle-if we looked at how local and even national taxes actually work-who
are paying the lion's share of the bill while man #10 is laughing all the
way to the bank.
You can blubber all you like, but the numbers do not change.
A small percentage of a small number is a small number. A small percentage of a large number is a large number.
Now, back to the article. For a good Urban Legends debunking of the authorship, please go to:
http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/howtaxes.asp
I thought the response from Professor Thomas Davies of the University of
South Dakota (the other person this article frequently gets attributed to)
was particularly interesting.
HOWEVER, you will note that neither of the Economics Professors who were attributed authorship and quotes on snopes, disputed the content or accuracy of the article, only their authorship of it.
In true Internet plague form, the article is now posted all over the web,
attributed to different authors or not at all, and holds prominent places in
lovely conservative web pages like the following:
This is also true of all of the Anti-Tax cut materials... except that those hold prominent places on all of the Liberal web pages.
Your whining reminds me of that old Communist joke...
Farmer: Commissar, my neighbor has a goat. I do not have a Goat. Commissar: What do you want me to do about it? Farmer: Take the goat away from my neighbor!
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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