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Originally Posted by Lulubelle
Umm Rox, the idea of a consumption tax is a conservative one borrowed from my Republican friends. You might want to do a little bit more research before poo-pooing it. I wish i had time to expound on it, but I have to go to work to earn part of the 70 thousand dollars in taxes I will pay this year.
And for all, I never advocated for redistribution of wealth. That was term used earlier by someone else who was disparaging other's opinions that were perceived as "liberal". The point most of you seem to miss is that Congress HAS ALREADY REDISTRIBUTED WEALTH via a very unfair tax code that benefits the wealthiest and socks it to the rest of us wage earners. I simply think our tax code needs to be fixed so that there are not so many loopholes for the very wealthy and so that wage earners have a shot.
Some of you are arguing against your own interests in this thread, me thinks perhaps that you do no understand the tax code as it stands today across the spectrum of incomes. I am thinking particularly of the person who was unhappy that he worked more hours than his friend and took home 50 dollars less. That is exactly what I have been advocating for, that the tax code is revamped in a way that does not penalize people unfairly in ways like this.
OK, I am signing off of this thread, have fun. Need to get back to paying the tax man and learning about scuba here.
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it is Irrevalent where it was taken from, this is what I believe. The Republican/Conservative view point, does not in the least encompass all of my views, but I will say that more of my views do allign with the conservative view point rather than the liberal.
Alright on to other things...
so to be a devils advocate real quick here, and by the way this is not really what I believe, but I believe lulubelle that you said your wealthy friend, I believe you said he was a contractor, paid much less in taxes than you did correct? Well if he had more money with which to work with, couldnt he take more projects on?, create more jobs?, pay higher wages?, and thus contribute more to the economy?, I think this is where the big buisness point of view comes from, and it is not entirely flawed I wouldnt think, but we all know that both sides of the coin have there advantages and disadvatages, hopefully we can just find a system that works better in the middle.