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Originally Posted by onetime2
They are not cutting taxes exclusively for the rich that's the point. Everyone has received a tax cut.
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Yes. And I'll hold on tightly to my .05% savings. In the mean time, I'll continue to complain that the upper class got the vast majority of the tax cut unjustifiably.
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They are paying their share because they are not avoiding these taxes illegally.
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Why are you confusing the concept of breaking the law with paying ones' share? Using the system to pay as little as you can possibly pay, with an advantage over ~90% of the country in determining methods of using the system, is not paying ones' share. Ones' share is not the amount which results from priviledged manipulation of the system. If there was a loophole which brought the tax rate for almost everyone making over $200k down to 1%, it would be, by definition, legal - but it would not be ones' share.
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Close the current loopholes and there will be more found. There is no foolproof way to insure that the rich can't legally avoid paying the maximum tax.
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Sure. Which is exactly why we should not be lowering their taxes. As I said - increasing their taxes will offset their ability to maximize advantage of loopholes which are essentially unattainable to ~90% of the country. There is no foolproof way of doing anything - that doesn't mean we remove all safeguards. It doesn't mean we go in the opposite direction of attempting to mitigate the problem.