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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Yak"  wrote in message news:vdjcng$37i22$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 10/1/2024 7:12 PM, Baxter wrote:   
   >> Yak  wrote in news:vdhdg2$2r3or$1@dont-email.me:   
   >>   
   >>> On 10/1/2024 1:37 PM, citizen winston smith wrote:   
   >>>> On 10/1/2024 11:32 AM, Jimmy wrote:   
   >>>>>> "Make them pay their fair share!"   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> She's either a stone cold liar or she's stupid and believes you are.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> All business owners pay taxes.  We have to or the IRS comes after   
   >> us   
   >>>>> first.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's time to stand up for the billionaires because where else will   
   >> all   
   >>>>> our   
   >>>>> money trickle down from?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Giverment, duh.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That's what you totalitarian fascists want, isn't it it?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Billionaires need protection, they're too weak to protect themselves.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Red herring.   
   >>>   
   >>> Bottom 50% earned 10.4% of income, paid 2.3% of fed income taxes.   
   >>>   
   >>> Top 1% earned 26.3% of income, paid 45.8% of fed. income taxes.   
   >>>   
   >>> Top 1% of income tax payers paid more than the bottom 90% combined.   
   >>>   
   >>> We know who's really not paying their fair share.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Let's look at a 50% flat tax:   
   >   
   > Let's not.   
   >   
   >>   - the poor might not even have enough to eat, much less a roof over   
   >> their head   
   >>   - the middle class would have at best an austere lifestyle, eat and   
   >> house, nothing else   
   >>   - the well-off would be inconvenienced but have a normal life   
   >>   - the billionaires would not even notice except on spreadsheet numbers.   
   >>   
      
   effectively we already have that, for some it might even reduce their   
   taxes..   
      
   I think rather than arguing who is or should be taxed more.. we should be   
   asked why taxes should be increased?   
      
   Maybe the real question should be how much of our money is being used/wasted   
   by the government and what spending should be limited to.   
      
    I think that would do more to resolve issues than arguing over who hasn't   
   yet been over taxed..   
      
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