Originally Posted by
stephen
i'm going to go out on a limb and try to give tony a little help on this. i don't think it's all about "steal from the rich, and give to the poor." the issues with the "rich" and their taxes, has a lot to do with what it takes to stay rich. when it comes down to it...the wealthier you get, the more of an asset you are to our government. our government views success, power, and wealth waaaaaay differntly than the common man. the way of the government is "dog eat dog," point blank. a perfect example is all that stuff Delta went through. my mother went from making over $100k a year, to $65k in a matter of months. she had the opportunity to take a severence package, that would've been IMPOSSIBLE to live off of, and yet there were high up executives being offered packages of more money than they were making...in the millions! lol, here you have a company that filed bankrupt, cut down their employees salary by 30-40% in some cases, and yet...you still have executives that're able to walk away with millions in their pockets? these same executives were able to maintain their company's success for so long, due to hard working people like my mom. lol, and now those same people want a tax break!?! now you have someone who has a family to maintain, and who has to dip into their retirement money just to make ends meet. sh.i.t, there's a dude who works at the publix up the street from me...he's in his 60s, RETIRED from some other job, and still has to work a part time gig at a grocery store just to survive.
it's situations like that, that make people want to tax the hell out of rich folks, and spare the more abundant middle class people (who work hard for some of the rich people)....goes back to the "dog eat dog" mentality. personally, i feel like income taxes are illegal ANYWAY. being forced to give money to the government because you worked for it...while you're still giving money to them when you buy goods, just seems unfair TO EVERYONE. i understand it helps to sustain the nation's economy, but it still just sounds so wrong. i don't think it matters who the government taxes (rich or middle class), it's still the people's money, and should to help better us...not some other country's people, or like mccain said "$3million to fund bear DNA research." lol, that's probably the only thing he's said, that i like!
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