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Winning elections is not good enough
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:12:51 -0500, BAR wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:18:40 -0800, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:57:46 -0500, wrote:
The fact still remains close to half of the households pay no income
tax at all.
You keep saying that as though it has some great weight in your
argument. There's a significant portion of the population that doesn't
pay income tax because they ARE POOR.
Only in America can we call someone making $45,000 a year "poor".
What do you think the tax burden is on someone making that kind of
money in one of the socialist countries?
Those "socialist" countries give a lot to people who pay those higher
percentage taxes. Thus the income side of the equation isn't as
important. Of course, you don't want social services for anyone who
"can't afford it". You're contradicting yourself.
I guarantee you, if you take one of those people who are not paying
any income tax now and show them what their Canadian tax bill would be
(the templates are on the web if you want to try it)
those people would rather keep their extra $15-20,000 and buy
insurance on the open market. Kids being who they are, they would
probably buy a car and just hope they never have to go to the doctor
tho.
Besides eye glasses I didn't need medical care until I got married and
started having children. I did break my thumb when I was 27 which
required out patient surgery but that was only a couple of grand.
So what?
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