A disgusting vat of filth that no self-respecting intelligent person would wade into.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When you thought we needed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, did you enlist?

I tried to and was told I was too old.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Since you think taxes are too low then, why don't you volunteer away another 1/3 of your take home?

I'll do that the minute you sign up to fight in Iraq. Deal?



eta: Yeah, yeah, yeah -- STP

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
When you thought we needed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, did you enlist?

Assinine comparison.

Not everyone needs to be soldier on the ground to do their part for the war effort.

However, if one thinks that taxes are artificially too low, that government is underfunded, that programs need to be expanded - the only honest solution is to voluntarily fork over more of your cash to the government.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
I'll do that the minute you sign up to fight in Iraq. Deal?



eta: Yeah, yeah, yeah -- STP

You're smarter than this.

[nononono]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Assinine comparison.

Not everyone needs to be soldier on the ground to do their part for the war effort.

However, if one thinks that taxes are artificially too low, that government is underfunded, that programs need to be expanded - the only honest solution is to voluntarily fork over more of your cash to the government.

Oh, come now, Slave. Surely earnest volunteers could do little care packages for beleaguered IRS agents in the trenches, instead, no?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You're smarter than this.

Is this coupled with your previous post a backhanded slap at Ty!?!? If so, bad fourm for an Admin to be publicly derogatorying a Mod. Take it to the Mod Squad Board!

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
However, if one thinks that taxes are artificially too low, that government is underfunded, that programs need to be expanded - the only honest solution is to voluntarily fork over more of your cash to the government.

Not so, given the incremental insignificance of anything that any one of us could contribute.

If you believe this, the honest solution is to support increased taxes across some broader spectrum of the population even though it will result in a tax hike for you as well.

I always have -- although I have to say I wasn't paying taxes pre-RR, so I never saw those huge tax rates. He did sort of restructure everyone's perceptions over time, so that today the idea of a top tax rate of 70% seems monstrous even to most "liberals."

S_A_M

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I tried to and was told I was too old.

You must be _really_ old.

Try again, they've upped the age limits. {We also serve who sit and backfill in the U.S. and Europe.}

S_A_M

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You must be _really_ old.

Try again, they've upped the age limits. {We also serve who sit and backfill in the U.S. and Europe.}

S_A_M

to what?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Assinine comparison.

Not everyone needs to be soldier on the ground to do their part for the war effort.

However, if one thinks that taxes are artificially too low, that government is underfunded, that programs need to be expanded - the only honest solution is to voluntarily fork over more of your cash to the government.

What a moronic statement. I could bankrupt myself and pay about .000001% of the deficit Bush's tax cuts have caused.

Calling that "the only honest solution" is beneath you.


eta: But do, please, tell us how you are doing your part for the war effort.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
to what?

42. See, http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f...25-1886067.php

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You're smarter than this.

Right back at you, when you argue that giving all my money to the government is "the only honest solution" to my objection to, say, eliminating the estate tax for multi-millionaires.

[Adder]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
However, if one thinks that taxes are artificially too low, that government is underfunded, that programs need to be expanded - the only honest solution is to voluntarily fork over more of your cash to the government.

Who has ever thought that? Some things are underfunded, some are over funded. And some things we have to pay for because we made stupid ass decisions about invading countries we shouldn't have invaded (or at least should have done more to avoid invading and invaded with better preparation if it came to that).

Mostly, I think taxes are a necessarily level. To believe that there is a "right" level of taxation (a necessary prerequisite to believe that taxes are too high) without reference to the spending you need to fund is just as assine as believing that taxes are too low.

But please feel free to give us some entertaining supply-side mumbo jumbo if you would like.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
42. See, http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f...25-1886067.php

I was right the first time.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The quiz only considers lip service to deficit reduction.

Yeah, on reflection I read to much into a couple of the questions.