I also think a progressive tax on net wealth (not only real estate but financial wealth) would be a very powerful instrument to curb the increase in wealth inequality.why do you feel that is YOUR money?
not really, from the article
I also think a progressive tax on net wealth (not only real estate but financial wealth) would be a very powerful instrument to curb the increase in wealth inequality.why do you feel that is YOUR money? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
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because we all have an investment into the general system
Without the laws and armys that keep it stable we are fucked. The concept of property without a private army to protect it is based on the society we live in. Those that benefit to a greater degree also have the responsibility to fund it. Unless you want to live in a caliphate or whatever, which in turn means it wouldn't be your's either. |
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they are already funding it at a large percentage rate
much higher rate than any of us here Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
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Rmoney only broke 10% by playing games with his deductions.
Mother Jones from 2012. He picked his own tax rate in 2011, purposely paying more than he owed. Romney intentionally took fewer deductions than he earned in 2011, paying over $250,000 more in taxes than he needed to. I pay a lot more than 15%, myself. YMMV. But the idea that people who have huge incomes and huge accumulated fortunes somehow suffer unfairly when they pay higher rates than the rest of us - well, that's messed up. We have a progressive tax system for a reason. It's not unfair, and it's not a burden on the wealthy. Cheers, Scott. |
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you would never catch the clintons doing that :-)
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
Piketty protégé explains $T scamming of Govts (not just us Serfs)
- (Ashton)
- (17)
- June 30, 2014, 11:08:24 PM EDT
riddle me this
- (boxley)
- (16)
- July 1, 2014, 10:16:08 AM EDT
oh puhleeze
- (crazy)
- (2)
- July 1, 2014, 10:50:57 AM EDT
tell that to Pat Moon
- (boxley)
- (1)
- July 1, 2014, 11:27:55 AM EDT
paywall, no read
- (crazy)
- July 1, 2014, 02:34:18 PM EDT
Riddle me this
- (drook)
- (8)
- July 1, 2014, 02:19:37 PM EDT
show me the invented part
- (boxley)
- (6)
- July 1, 2014, 02:53:45 PM EDT
s/invented hypotheticals/introduce unrelated
- (drook)
- (5)
- July 1, 2014, 03:00:01 PM EDT
not really, from the article
- (boxley)
- (4)
- July 1, 2014, 03:31:20 PM EDT
because we all have an investment into the general system
- (crazy)
- (3)
- July 1, 2014, 04:23:32 PM EDT
they are already funding it at a large percentage rate
- (boxley)
- (2)
- July 1, 2014, 07:43:20 PM EDT
Rmoney only broke 10% by playing games with his deductions.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- July 1, 2014, 08:34:30 PM EDT
you would never catch the clintons doing that :-)
-NT
- (boxley)
- July 2, 2014, 10:41:07 AM EDT
It's whataboutery, again.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- July 2, 2014, 01:26:11 AM EDT
The paper discusses things like that...
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- July 1, 2014, 07:40:39 PM EDT
there is the real issue to me
- (boxley)
- (1)
- July 1, 2014, 07:53:25 PM EDT
The paper covers all that...
- (Another Scott)
- July 1, 2014, 08:24:46 PM EDT
In simple words (so even the BOx may understand)
- (CRConrad)
- Dec. 15, 2014, 10:39:47 AM EST