Post #219,981
8/18/05 4:57:42 PM
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Re: couple of counter points
>Every dollar of income tax collected from a wealthy is a dollar that could be spent elsewhere, like on payroll.
Every dollar of income tax collected from a middle class is a dollar that would have been spent elsewhere, like on food, health care, housing, or education.
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Post #219,982
8/18/05 5:03:40 PM
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Post of the Day. Congrats!
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Post #219,984
8/18/05 5:05:43 PM
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And further ...
Every dollar of income tax taken from a poor person is a choice of which necessity to go without this month.
I've come to the conclusion supply-side theory is bunk. Give a poor man a hundred dollars and he'll spend it. The drug war has proven that if there are people with money to spend, someone will do what it takes to supply that demand. If someone crunches the numbers and decides it's not a good risk to start a business, instead of subsidizing the supply how about we subsidize the demand?
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Post #219,985
8/18/05 5:06:16 PM
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Besides, the wealthy have had a lot of tax cuts in the last
few years, and I'm not seeing it show up in payroll. See Warren Buffet for his take on that; he wrote a paper which is posted on the Berkshire Hathaway website.
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Post #220,001
8/18/05 6:44:04 PM
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thank you for making my point
Every dollar of income tax collected from a middle class is a dollar that would have been spent elsewhere, like on food, health care, housing, or education exactly, no more 33% withholding and a 23% sales tax with the current poverty line (in my house thats 34k per year) getting an upfront debit card to reflect the base needs of that family. Since I am a cheap bastard this would be great. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #220,018
8/18/05 9:02:51 PM
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Some day. Some day.
You have the ability. I hope that some day you overcome your laziness and make a coherent post.
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Post #220,042
8/18/05 10:52:45 PM
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what was incoherent about that?
tod said INCOME tax by the middle class could be spent on nescessities, I agreed with him and further stated since I try not to spend that much the 23% sales tax would affect me that much what part about math logic and common sense do you have trouble with?
thanx.
bill
there is a sign around here somewhere
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #220,083
8/19/05 8:39:44 AM
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What part of punctuation and grammar don't you understand?
Right back atcha. I'm getting massivly tired of having to decipher your posts. Stop being so damned lazy. It's rude and it makes you someone who is too much trouble to read.
I tend to skip any posts you make till someone else gives a reply. "Worse than Ashton" is something I never thought I'd say.
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Post #220,099
8/19/05 11:14:45 AM
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my made up words are better than his? Thanx!
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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 49 years. meep
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Post #220,108
8/19/05 11:39:10 AM
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Welcome.
Still want you to stop being so damned lazy though.
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