[vision-master]

'Patriotic Millionaires' Lobby Congress for Higher Taxes on Rich

Many Republican MYTH's are BUSTED!

NOTE: They are talking about ppl who make $1,000,000 + year.

[Oakley]

Diversionary tactic.

[basil_hayden]

Why send more money to be wasted by an inefficient government?

Send the checks directly to me (or even you).

Or send the checks directly to a local library or other hurting institution, philanthropically.

Better yet, folks like Warren Buffett can lower my car insurance rates instead of jacking it up every six months despite no claims and Bill Gates can stop charging altogether for an operating system that's never worked right.

Maybe they can just stop downsizing my ice cram and make it a full half gallon again.

Does it even occur to the "rich" that they simply overcharge the general public?

[vision-master]

For instance, in years when the top marginal rate was more than 90 percent, the average annual growth in total payroll employment was 2 percent. In years when the top marginal rate was 35 percent or less—which it is now—employment grew by an average of just 0.4 percent.

And there’s no cherry-picking here. Pick any threshold. When the marginal tax rate was 50 percent or above, annual employment growth averaged 2.3 percent, and when the rate was under 50, growth was half that.


In fact, if you ranked each year since 1950 by overall job growth, the top five years would all boast marginal tax rates at 70 percent or higher. The top 10 years would share marginal tax rates at 50 percent or higher. The two worst years, on the other hand, were 2008 and 2009, when the top marginal tax rate was 35 percent. In the 13 years that the top marginal tax rate has been at its current level or lower, only one year even cracks the top 20 in overall job creation.

We showed last week that lower rates are not associated with faster overall economic growth—just the opposite, in fact. And now we know that lower rates don’t coincide with higher job growth, either. So where is the evidence that the lower marginal tax rates spur job creation? It’s certainly not present in the past 60 years of American history.

[Serial_Worrier]

Why don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hy don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hy don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[AgentR11]

They're just reinforcing the viewport of the lower 80%. Focused ever on income...

ASSETS AND TRUSTS >>>>>>>>>>>> income

Someone up there is laughing their butts off watching the so called 99 whine about income taxes disparity.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hy don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[vision-master]

'Everyone should pay the same rate.'

Same with medical insurance?

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hy don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[vision-master]

Yeah right... this place is full of wacko's.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', 'D')iversionary tactic.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'A')R is right, the capitalists would be happy with a top "income tax" rate of 99% as long as dividends and capital gains and grandpa's estate are taxed at 0%.
Personally I'd be happy to pay a flat tax (I've paid next to 0% fed income tax for years) as long as capital gains and dividend income and inheritance is taxed at the same rate as the wages of the workers that make the rich rich.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hy don't they just write a check if they feel the government is under-funded? Why must they force everyone else to pay more? What is this force-fetish the left has?

[Cog]

I favor the most fair tax plan of all. Simply stop collecting income taxes from anyone.

There you go.

[AgentR11]

If we are going to fight wars and have a powerful, offensive, projective military; we must pay for it.

Actually, this supercommittee thing is a perfect test vehicle for conservatives; if they believe in lower taxes, they will allow the default sequestration to go into effect. If they believe in strong military power, they will raise taxes. Amazing what politicians will do to themselves if you let them put off the political price tag for a few months! lol.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '[')color=#FF0000]If we are going to fight wars and have a powerful, offensive, projective military; we must pay for it.[/color]

Actually, this supercommittee thing is a perfect test vehicle for conservatives; if they believe in lower taxes, they will allow the default sequestration to go into effect. If they believe in strong military power, they will raise taxes. Amazing what politicians will do to themselves if you let them put off the political price tag for a few months! lol.

[Cog]

Fighting wars will not alter geology.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'D')on't you mean START wars, oil wars. The Military will break this Country, Eisenhower warned us decades ago.