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Why do people not see it as wrong when there are all these people who DON'T WORK AND DON'T PAY TAXES (and it's not because they can't work, it's because they don't have to work, because all the bleeding heart liberal welfare programs). These people get huge "earned imcome" checks every year that are 5 times what my tax return is. Know what my sin is? I work for a living. I make 30K year and support a family of four on that. I have 30K in student loans. I paid my way through school and worked my ass off while doing it, and now I'm still working my ass off and living paycheck to paycheck while the govenment takes 1/4 of my pay and redistrbutes it to the non working lazy ass people. THAT'S my problem with raising taxes. Marx would be proud of our quasi socialism in this country. That's also why I hate the fact that the "rich" pay a much higher PERCENTAGE of their income in taxes. That means if I ever make more, I get to look forward to giving a bigger PERCENTAGE of my income to the govt to waste. That's not right. Everyone should pay the same percentage of their income in taxes. Richer people still pay more in dollars because they earn more, but to say "they have it so they can afford it" is wealth redistribution, and that's straight socialism any way you slice it. I don't want a raise right now because I CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE MORE. If I do the govt will just raise my taxes and I'll be taking home less than I do now. As for Bush, you can blame our current economy on Mr Clinton. The recession was started during his administration and his "surplus" never existed. The problem in this country is people want to pay less taxes, have more govt spending (preferably money coming back to them), and have a balanced budget. That's fiscally impossible. Oil prices now are again following the good ole "supply and demand" rule, where there's more demand than supply at X price so the price goes up till the counteract each other. Oil is a nonreplaceable resourse, so it ain't gonna get better. It might go down for awhile, but I expect to see $5 gal gas in the next 5-10 years. It's simple economics. As for voting to raise taxes, get the government programs going like welfare etc, (I like to jump around to keep you off guard), Alexander Tytler's view points right at this country
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous benefits) from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."
As best I can tell, we're right there in the apathy/dependence part. How do you "tax and spend" folks like that?
Why do people not see it as wrong when there are all these people who DON'T WORK AND DON'T PAY TAXES (and it's not because they can't work, it's because they don't have to work, because all the bleeding heart liberal welfare programs). These people get huge "earned imcome" checks every year that are 5 times what my tax return is. Know what my sin is? I work for a living. I make 30K year and support a family of four on that. I have 30K in student loans. I paid my way through school and worked my ass off while doing it, and now I'm still working my ass off and living paycheck to paycheck while the govenment takes 1/4 of my pay and redistrbutes it to the non working lazy ass people. THAT'S my problem with raising taxes. Marx would be proud of our quasi socialism in this country. That's also why I hate the fact that the "rich" pay a much higher PERCENTAGE of their income in taxes. That means if I ever make more, I get to look forward to giving a bigger PERCENTAGE of my income to the govt to waste. That's not right. Everyone should pay the same percentage of their income in taxes. Richer people still pay more in dollars because they earn more, but to say "they have it so they can afford it" is wealth redistribution, and that's straight socialism any way you slice it. I don't want a raise right now because I CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE MORE. If I do the govt will just raise my taxes and I'll be taking home less than I do now. As for Bush, you can blame our current economy on Mr Clinton. The recession was started during his administration and his "surplus" never existed. The problem in this country is people want to pay less taxes, have more govt spending (preferably money coming back to them), and have a balanced budget. That's fiscally impossible. Oil prices now are again following the good ole "supply and demand" rule, where there's more demand than supply at X price so the price goes up till the counteract each other. Oil is a nonreplaceable resourse, so it ain't gonna get better. It might go down for awhile, but I expect to see $5 gal gas in the next 5-10 years. It's simple economics. As for voting to raise taxes, get the government programs going like welfare etc, (I like to jump around to keep you off guard), Alexander Tytler's view points right at this country
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous benefits) from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."
As best I can tell, we're right there in the apathy/dependence part. How do you "tax and spend" folks like that?