Exactly.
So, I'll quote the lines containing the word "income".
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This isn't about any SINGLE tax.
This is about "taxes" and how it's only fair that the people who pay more should get more tax relief.
Like I pointed out in my reply, the $20 is coming from the owner's PROFITS.
Government doesn't MAKE a profit.
Right now, we're running a DEFICIT. For those of you with limited brainpower, that means we are SPENDING more than we are TAKING IN.
Is this a hard concept for people to understand? Only for certain people.
So, the tax cut isn't coming out of EXCESS MONEY (as in the example).
The tax cut is a means to an end. That end is ... To get the economy running again. Because, despite what certain people might keep claiming, the economy sucks and has sucked and is predicted to continue sucking.
So, do you take the same tact when you don't have enough money as when you have too much money?
Only a pathetic moron would do that.
But then, a pathetic moron wouldn't understand our tax system either and would fall for simplistic "examples" such as this.
If this were an accurate example, the owner would have mortgaged his establishment and the diners would each own a chunk of that mortgage. Then the owner would have to explain why he couldn't pay the mortgage and would they like a discount on some portions of their meal? Just so other people could see them eating there and then those other people might come in and buy something and then he could pay the mortgage.
Simplistic works for fools.
