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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:40:09 -0500,

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The top brackets ought to be paying 49%, and there should be
no
cap
on
earnings subject to social security and medicare taxes.





As long as the top 1% controls 50% of the campaign
contributions
and
100% of the media you won't see that. They may pass that as
the
published top rate but there will be enough tax shelters and
loopholes
so they won't actually pay that.
The government has a long rich history of using the tax code
to
drive
social policy. If you do politically correct things you get
tax
breaks, big ones.





Is why there will never be a flat tax. Taxation is the
ultimate
control.






A flat tax is regressive.

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Actually is neither Regressive or Progressive.






You're just wrong. I don't know how to say it politely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax







No, he's not. Regression means that the more you make, the less
you
pay -
hardly a flat tax. You have to remember that the theory behind the
flat
tax offers no deductions. It's a simple percentage of your
income.




Didn't say regression - said regressive... and punative for those
who
make
just a bit.

You earn $100. You get to keep $90. You earn $100,000. You get to
keep
$90,000. Which would you pick?





Dumb example. People who choose to ignore an education and/or are
lazy
don't have the option to choose a $100K income.



Talk about elitist! I thought that was the exclusive realm of the
left.




I said "dumb example". You read that, right?


You said "choose to ignore an education and/or are lazy." That sounds
elitist to me.



Elitist? Go visit your local college campus. Are all of those kids
elitists because the applied themselves and stayed out of trouble?


All of the kids in college have applied themselves and stayed out of
trouble? Really? All of them? Wow.


Enough to take the next step to better themselves. I know there are
dropouts, so I properly chose to add the word "all" in my last statement.
You chose to spin it and...it didn't work.


So, you're claiming that "all those kids" the ones who are in college are
there because they chose to better themselves. Not a single one is there
because of some other reason. Keep at it "bruce"

Dan Krueger wears lifestyle blinkers. The real world would scare the
**** out of him. I'm starting to suspect he was a preppy dweeb who
went straight to college and married a Stepford wife. They've got a
cul-de-sac life with two cars and a boat. He likes his food fast and
his women plump.