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Originally Posted by ssneade
here's one:.......
Who Pays Income Taxes? See Who Pays What
i didn't want to start a thread about who pays what, but here we are. what i wanted to get from you other fine sailors, is your opinion of what is truly fair. our president keeps touting fairness, when all the time this thing is looking him in the face. you can't get no more than this amount of fair. i mean wow, i pay x amount of tax for every thing i buy just like a multi millionaire would. the more successful individual will naturally make higher end purchases than i. therefore he will pay tax on that amount.....
let's say i buy a fifteen thousand dollar car and the tax rate is say, twenty percent. real simple, three thousand dollars in tax owed for my purchase, right? ok, a more successful person can afford a nicer, more expensive car.
good for him. so he buys an automobile for the price of one hundred fifty thousand. what happens? he has to pay thirty thousand dollars in tax for his purchase. am i making sense so far? the more successful person who makes ten times my salary in theory will pay ten times the taxes i do. it all evens out in the end, folks. maybe the more successful will wind up paying even more taxes than they currently do, because tax breaks and loopholes will have been eliminated......
hey, i even get to bring home my whole paycheck. i know how to spend my money a helluva better than our government does..... |
The plan is not a new concept and it has always made sense...What doesnt it no way does it cost that much to run this country..and if it currently does we need to fix that first or we will all be signing up to pay 90% of our earnings...That's the point I'm trying to make.
And in answer to the great achiever chasing great returns..I will stand by my claim...yes philanthropy exists..but USUALLY only by those engaged elsewhere producing and chasing the almighty dollar...Malinda Gates fund as an example didn't come form poor monks in monastery somewhere..Of course you can find flaws in my chosen examples ..that was not the end all be all list of examples..
But I bet if you did some research you will find high powered wealthy philantrpist behind most R&D money in most every quarter of discovery not solely funded by government...like your NASA moon shot example...which was a pet project of John F Kennedys and a rally cry for America as a whole in the 60's.