Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Come back when you've actually had a real job and paid taxes yourself. I've known plenty of self-righteous little socialists like you. Of course, they were living off mommy and daddy. When they finally started earning they were shocked at how much they had to pay. Suddenly taxes took on a different meaning.
Ha. I moved out my parents house when I was 17. I started my first company when I was 18. I bought my first house out of foreclosure for $350,000 when I was 19, and sold it less than 2 months later for $650,000. At 20 I built a house on 35 acres for a total of $700,000. So yea, as usual you don't know what you're talking about.
Lets assume I was some kid who didn't know how it felt to pay taxes, and then suddenly realized how much I hated taxes. I would still be voting for Obama because in all likelyhood he would be lowering them. Your statement doesn't make any kind of sense in all kinds of ways.
I'd love to see you explain to that plumber, who is up to his elbows in people's toilets all day, how he isn't paying enough to subsidize Obama's welfare clients.
I doubt a plumber in someones toilet is going to be making more than $250,000 a year. Under Obama his taxes WOULD BE LOWER.
Nearly 40% of americans pay no income tax at all. Another 30% pay next to nothing. The entire tax burden is resting on a smaller and smaller group. Of course a small number of the very rich are odious crooks, the options hog CEO's and Wall Street manipulators. Most however are small businessmen, the people who create most of the jobs.
The reason a smaller number of people pay most of the taxes is because that small number, lets call it the top 10%, control the VAST majority of the wealth. I understand your point, but you are assuming the income gap between normal americans and the "small number of very rich" is small or non existent. Its HUGE. For example lets look at the middle class, the people making $50k a year give or take...those people pay their taxes and right now they pay more (on a percentage basis) than the very rich people and there is a lot more of them. Yet they account for very small chunk of the overall income tax revenue. Why? Because the top 10% hold nearly all the wealth. Its not because the middle class don't pay their taxes, they do pay them...religiously, but since none of the wealth trickles down and the income is being redistributed to the wealthy they account for pretty much nothing. Taxing them is pointless because there is no revenue there.
