Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

:On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:05:55 -0400, Raymond O'Hara wrote:
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: "Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
: ...
: Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
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: :On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:07:11 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote:
: :
: : hk wrote:
: :
: : :Fred J. McCall wrote:
: : : wf3h wrote:
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: : : :c'mon harry...don't you have the $5,000,000 that mccain says
: : : :makes you middle class?
: : : :
: : : :
: : : I think that's a great level at which to say taxes shouldn't be
: : : increased.
: : :
: : : You WANT to pay more taxes? I think we need a program that lets
: : : you folks pick your own tax rate and not steal from the rest of
: : : us...
: : :
: : :
: : :I think anyone with income of more than $5 million a year ought to
: : :be paying twice the amount of taxes they're paying now.
: : :
: : :
: : Why?
: :
: :The proper question, to both of you, is "Why should the rich pay _more_OR
: :_less_ than the poor?"
: :
: :
: And the answer is "they shouldn't". Income tax should essentially be
: like a tithe; everyone pays the same percentage (and you only tax the
: income ONCE).
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: yes they should. they get more ao they pay more. taxes aren't punishment
: as you wingnuts like to pretend. its what keeps the country running. you
: take more you pay more.
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:

Poor Ray. It apparently doesn't penetrate through to his tiny brain
that in paying the same percentage they WOULD BE paying more. In
point of fact, they would be paying precisely in scale with the 'more'
that they would get, even though they would receive it from their own
efforts rather than as some benefit they pay the State to 'provide'.

:
:Supporting a level playing field is not a sign of being a "wingnut."
:Giving the rich tax avoidance legislation or a "progressive" taxation
:in which the least productive become trapped on welfare.
:

Taxes based on income should be flat. They distort the economy the
least that way and allow it to function closer to its optimum levels.

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