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Originally Posted by filtherton
Class envy is a funny thing. If you're conservative it apparently means pretending that you're rich and pretending that taxes are bad and pretending that you're an expert on wealth distribution. If you're a liberal it apparently means that you just can't stand other people having more money than you.
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I must be dreaming. Filtherton expressed my thoughts, except that I don't agree with the "pretending" part.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
As for class warfare, let me just say that the only people who bring class warfare up are the people who have benefitted the most from it, or the people who like to pretend that they've benefitted from it. Capitalism american-style can't exist without a constant class war.
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Exactly! Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et. al.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
RB, the trick is in the tax deductions that reduce taxable gross income. The bigger the taxable income, the bigger those tax deductions need to be. Follow that money trail over the last six years.  |
Three words:
"Alternative minimum tax."
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I think people who make money on other people's work should pay higher taxes than the people who get a wage for doing the work.
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Yes, let's punish them for creating jobs. The depression was such a wonderful time for middle-class workers.