Who really bears the burden of increased taxes to redistribute wealth to poorer Americans?
guns protect asked:
Isn’t it the middle and upper-middle classes who get hurt? The rich simply hedge their wealth, relocate it, and cease corporate / job creation ventures when further taxed. And yet people side themselves with tax raising candidates. Do we not know the facts that lowering taxes (including on the wealthy) ALWAYS results in economic stimulation for all. We’ll always have bums and lazy folk. Citizens should NEVER be forced to provide for them.
Murray
Isn’t it the middle and upper-middle classes who get hurt? The rich simply hedge their wealth, relocate it, and cease corporate / job creation ventures when further taxed. And yet people side themselves with tax raising candidates. Do we not know the facts that lowering taxes (including on the wealthy) ALWAYS results in economic stimulation for all. We’ll always have bums and lazy folk. Citizens should NEVER be forced to provide for them.
Murray
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 am
Congress and the President
July 24th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Could not have said it better myself.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:40 am
The middle class is shrinking by the year….
The lower class and the wealthy have their bases covered.. ..
you either get free everything or have enough capitol to pay cash!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:07 am
More of your money is going to lower the taxes of the rich than is going to help the poor. Much more. Lowering taxes on the wealthy does not stimulate the economy. We are in a recession which has been building for some time.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:59 am
Makes sense.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
The sucker who work for a living..that does not include government employees!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:02 am
1. NO president ever EVER cut taxes during a war! this has cause serious financial problems to our country, we have a debt of over 9 trillion , if this dosnt not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that supply side economics/Reaganomics does not work than i don’t know what does, also free trade does not work, this has caused millions of good paying jobs to relocate outside of the us just to turn around and sell their goods back to us, we need to tax the wealthy to get our country back on track. they should pay mores since they have benefited more on our system and use our infrastructure more. We need to reinstate all our tariffs that we used to have , a mirror tariff would be a good start added with the penalization of companies who outsource jobs than try to sell their goods back to the u.s
August 6th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
We bear the burden of buying power for the Democrats.
They tax us to pour more money into social programs that benefit their party at election time.
I am in favor of a FLAT TAX.
EVERY able-bodied American should work and pay taxes.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Redistribution of wealth is just a Conservative BS term. Every time there is a tax increase they start screaming that. Well hell, isn’t a tax break for the wealthy the same thing? If I got a 5 % tax cut and was making 30k a year and you got a 5% tax cut and was making 100k a year, who got the better of that redistribution you think? And by the way, tax cuts and tax increases have not helped or hurt the middle class much. We are pretty much ignored.
August 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
My dad used to own houses and apartment buildings that he rented. If property taxes went up, he raised the rent. If his insurance went up, he raised the rent. If anything related to those properties cost him money, he raised the rent. He made the same profit margin no matter what. All businesses are run that way. You tell me who pays. The people renting. The people buying the product. The lower the taxes my dad paid, the lower the rent was. He was told one time that he had to rent to people on public assistance. He worked a deal with the local fire department and burnt the building down so the fire department could train with it. Who made out there. Less housing in the community for rent, rent goes up.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
So now we are beginning to reap the rewards of cutting taxes and increasing spending. Who was it that labeled Regan’s “voodoo economics?” Oh yea, that was Bush Sr. guess his idiot kid didn’t get the memo.
There are no candidates suggesting we redistribute wealth via taxes. There are some that are talking about policy changes to strengthen and grow the middle class, and wouldn’t we all be better off with fewer people living in poverty? Doesn’t that truly affect every one of us? If you think not, imagine how safe you will be in your gated communities when 50% of people in the U.S. fall below the poverty level. And with no type of safety net to help them, there is not much left to them other than taking what they need. Maybe it is time to re-read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Dickens.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Wow, finally someone puts to words the reality of the world. Best post ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tax the rich has always been rhetoric. Everytime they tax the rich my taxes go up. And by nobodys standard am I a financially rich or wealthy man.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
SHHH!! you dont want the far left to brand you as heartless now, do you??