frank wrote:
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:Bull****. Take a decent economics course, if they offer any anymore.
:

I have a degree in the field, Frank. You're an idiot.

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:Progressive income tax with higher rates for richest is the way to go.
:Flat tax is worst on the poor. Hell everybody agreed on that until
:these stupid Republicans under Reagan took over.
:

Wrong. Progressive taxes are the MOST distortive to market forces.
Flat taxes distort the least and hence are the way to go.

If 'everyone agreed' until Reagan, why did JFK make taxes much less
regressive (and thereby stimulate both the economy and government tax
receipts)?

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:You know under Eisenhower, tax rate was 91% for some of the highest
:brackets?
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Yes, and you know JFK changed that because it was ****ing up the
economy so badly, right?

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:You know some of them actually complained to the Treasury
:Secretary, and his response was, pay your damn taxes, you can afford
:it. You are gaining the largess due to what this country provides for
:you. From infrastructure to safe means to park your funds.
:

Cite? I think you're lying again.

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:The only people advocating a flat tax are the super rich who would
:make a killing on it
:

You're lying again.

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its only income and they would not count
:investments as income).
:

You're lying again.

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:Why the hell is Forbes so gung ho on it?
:

Because he actually understand what you do not; non-flat taxes on
income distort the economy.

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:To
:help the middle class? Hell no. He has no clue how you live. Neither
:does McCain or his wife. Anybody got a quarter mil earrings for the
:wife lately? Thought not. Well, you can thank the Reagan / Bush tax
:cuts for them getting richer and richer and ****ing away more than
:you'd pay on a house for ear candy.
:

Jealousy is SO ugly, Frank. You and your "eat the rich; the poor are
tough and stringy" crowd make me nauseous. Where do you think the
jobs come from?

:
:Look at how many people are millionaires or billionaires. And how many
:Americans have lost their jobs or houses? These tax cuts are killing
:the US
:

Now go look at who is paying the taxes, Frank...

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"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
only stupid."
-- Heinrich Heine