What is wrong with wanting to tax Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey?
why do some folks not want to tax the wealthy but tax the middle class?
Joe Schmoe making $50,000 a year trying to support his wife Martha and his two kids Leslie and Tommy. and his dog Scruffy?
why tax Joe?
They are all already taxed and taxed more than any other group..
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Because Joe Schmoe and Joe Six-Pack can’t fight back.
Because he uses govt services too!!!
We all use govt services, we should all pay some!!!
Why do you insist on making those who worked the hardest and earned the most pay for everything? That’s not fair at all.
they should tax the poor to motivate them to get richer
The top 10% of wage earners, the richest, pay 95% of all taxes. You think it is fair that they pay more?
Republicans are worried that the super wealthy instead of making a hundred million a year might only make ninety million and we’ll end up paying the other ten million with passed along costs. Whatever you do, don’t upset the wealthy.
If you think Obama will not raise Joe’s taxes, you are kidding yourself.
Nothing wrong with taxing them and I know of no one, even them, who says they should pay no taxes. Obama wants to tax them more, Mccain less, but they’d still pay a heck of lot of taxes no matter who wins that one.
If you tax the likes of Trump, Gates and whatsername, where will Joe work?
Income taxes should be thrown out the window anyway, we should have paid more attention to Mike Huckabee and the fair tax. Eliminate the IRS all together, and tax everyone equally.
I don’t think you should be taxing the middle class a lot. But I don’t agree with taxing the rich more either. Why is it that because these people want to have better lives by working hard and getting better jobs they should be taxed MORE? And don’t act like they don’t have families either that they have to take care of. And besides we aren’t really talking about millionaires. People want to tax the ones more that make $200,000 a year and more—-that isn’t really rich.
It will crush the economy as they fire people so they don’t go to the poor house.
That’s what the republicans will tell you at least.
Here are the candidates tax plans. It’s a simple chart, read it, especially if you think your taxes are going up with Obama.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/index.htm
To the person that said they are already taxed more than any other demographic, give me a break!!!!
They pay more money into taxes but it is a much smaller percent of their income. If I can swing 30% don’t you think they probably could too? That’s how that stupid richest 10% pay 95% of the taxes rule works. You know what they don’t tell you, they’re making over 95% of the income in the US. Do you get how it’s unfair now?
Educate yourself on taxes before you start making ridiculous comments like that. Sounds like you’ve been listening to Boortz without doing the research he encourages.
Fair tax! Genius! You REALLY need to do some research and put some thought into that. If you make less than $300,000 a year and you think the fair tax will not completely crush you, you have no idea how the fair tax works. Put some critical thought into that and figure it out.
Wow, almost every answer here is extremely ignorant to how current tax laws work. Take the time to do a little research. The rich pay MUCH lower taxes than the rest of us as a percent of their income. Why is it unfair to hold them to a similar standard as an employee at Target?
The idea is that life is not fair but it should be more fair for those who have everything…
Better to take from those who have nothing than to give. Their Jesus.
The folks who do NOT want to tax the wealthy ARE the wealthy. If Joe Schmoe makes $50,000 and this country would and should adopt a set % tax rate, such as example, 10%, he would pay $5000 taxes.
Now, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Oprah and everyone else in the country would pay the same set rate which would be 10% of the dollars they each make.
This country would have no national debt, there would be money for highways, schools programs, small town funding, etc. The money would be shared by all, benefiting all, not just the rich and the getting richer.
Obama’s tax plan should be applied to affect himself, and his wife…if he actually made a living that wasn’t already paid for by taxpayers.
He can say tax the rich all day long, yet he’s not going to suffer one bit for it personally despite the fact that he’s rich…i.e. multi-million dollar home purchased through Tony Rezko, not to mention all the donations paid to him from his corrupt lobbyist groups. Obama is the embodiment of “corrupt rich” that he keeps claiming to be fighting against.
His hypocrisy knows no bounds however, since he keeps saying he won’t raise taxes on the middle class…but if you raise taxes on the wealthy individuals, businesses and corporations in this nation…which again pays the entirety of Barack’s salary…you are as a direct result going to be cutting jobs, goods, services, etc because the amount of people in the workforce will have to be cut to cope with the additional taxes, which causes a loss of production which raises prices through lower supply, or you keep the workforce and raise prices in order to afford to keep production levels up. It is a no brainer, and Obama will be fine no matter how much we lose through taxation because Congress and the White House are paid by those taxes.
Nothing is more important for the Dems than to have a perpetual base of miserable voters who are too ignorant and brainwashed to vote these manipulative pigs out of office just because they can articulate a catchy slogan.
Yes we can vote Obama and the other Dems out while it’s not too late!
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As Gabriel so ignorantly proved by his link to the tax tables…
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/index.htm
you can see that those who make $603,000 and up will have a tax increase by an “additional” 20% under Obama, on top of the already high 35% tax rate they now pay, thereby making their tax burden under Obama a whopping 55% or $331,650 right off the top of their earnings. Meaning they only get to keep 45% of what they have worked so hard to earn. 45% How many of you would accept a tax of 55%?
If you think that this is going to help the middle to lower income earners, just because with Barack they would save a little by essentially raping the employers, the people who own all business in this country, then you are just not thinking things through. Low to mid income earners would save maybe $700 a year under Obama, yet with his plan for prevention of drilling in ANWR, his enlarging of taxation on oil companies and his taxation of virtually every aspect of business and personal life, death tax, business tax, capitol gains tax, not to mention letting the Bush tax cuts expire….how can you not see that this is like patching the Titanic with a garbage bag, all the while telling everyone on board that they’ll make it to shore safe and sound.
And if you were a person who actually desired to own your own business…can you not see that the taxes Obama proposes will kill small business, and stifle any and all innovation? What is the motivation to own a business and provide a service or a product if the government takes all profit for the purpose of installing socialism?
Think.
Nothing wrong with that.
It’s plain and simple. They benefited a lot (since they are so wealthy) from this country, they should pay back.
Before you tear me apart, I’m in the highest tax bracket. I pay taxes like everyone else and never cringe, because I know the following:
1. I’m safe in this country;
2. I have freedoms that a lot of other people don’t have;
3. My money is safe in this country;
4. My kids and their future will be safe in this country.
This type of security is worth the money.