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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I will never again feel sympathy for people making over $200,000 per year who are having tax reductions rolled back at a point when our soldiers are dying in Iraq, schools are crumbling at home, and unemployed folks aren't finding jobs before benefits run out.
Oh, wait a minute, I guess that poll was on the other board. Well, hell, cry me a river anyways.
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Where do you live? $200k is NOT a lot of money in my area, and I'm in a shit city. $200k ain't diddly in SF or NYC for a family with a reasonably solid approaching-the-high-end-of-middle-class lifestyle.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again (as I'm prone to do) - Taxes need to be assessed based on the cost of living in certain locations. A man in SF should not lose his tax breaks over $200k. Nor should a family where mom and dad have student loans, etc... All this eventually leads to the only correct and fair answer to the tax question - WE MUST HAVE A FLAT TAX. But, of course, this would put countless bean counters, tax planners, lawyers and useless govt workers (and their pensions - which they deserve, tireless workers they are) out on their asses, which is where they ought to be anyway.
If we are to be a real capitalist country, why do we provide govt jobs in mass amounts, at great expense, to the least talented and laziest of us. Its like an opt out clause of sorts: "I hereby opt out of capitalism and having to survive in the private sector and will take mediocre pay and fantastic benefits to do nothing for the rest of my life." I wish I had the capacity to accept failure which allows one to jump into such a cushy deal.
I'd accept MORE taxes tomorrow if I could personally monitor that the money got to needy people who want to have beeter lives. But these fucking bodies jamming the govt payrolls.... fuck them all. I say starve that fucking beast. They deserve to be homeless and desititute... free riding sons of bitches. They're the ones stealing money from the mouths of the poor.
