they are not gonna emigrate cuz of a tax rise. where were they livin' before bush gave 'em an early xristmas present. roflmao.
This is a legitimate position and point of view, I only wish you conservatives start campaigning on the elimination of medicare, medicaid etc as opposed to campaigning on generic, misleading and meaningless concept of a smaller government. My guess is you'd get about 20-25% of the vote if you offered to eliminate medicare. PS let me also try to explain why you can't opt out - a responsible developed civilized society does not want to have people dying in the streets, people who opt out when they are young and fail (for whatever reason) to save enough. Letting them die without help is not an option in a civilized society which will have no other choice but to take care of them even though they "opted out".
As a freakin' scumbag trader, I'm the last guy who's going to pass judgement on CEO salaries. Unless we own stock in a company what business is it of ours anyways how much they compensate management? There's Formula 1 drivers and sit com actors making more than top CEO's. It's a free market, bit. The Forbes list folks you're speaking of don't "earn" billions. Earnings are income. Being IPO'd into a zillion is capital gains. Guy's like Gates, Dell, Ellison etal are paid pedestrian salaries. Their wealth is in stock. Hence that wealth is not subject to INCOME tax. Thus income tax really only hits the rich guy who can't capitalize his earnings as a public company. For most people who make 500k in a year it's a one shot deal. A lucky trend follower, a one hit wonder pop star, a lawyer who wins a big suit, a salesmen who lands a mother lode account, a running back with four years career expectancy, ect. How much you wanna bet if we asked Buffet about bumping cap gains to 35% he'd hem and haw telling us how it would "cut investment spending".... Has his own axe to grind.
Yep, the wealthiest americans paid more taxes under Clinton and did not leave, they themselves say that they are not paying their fair share of taxes, yet the Pabsts of the world are trying to convince everyone that Bill Gates and Larry Silverstein would move to Switzerland or settle in Jamaica if their tax rate goes from 36% to 38%.
_______________________________________________ I thought the thread was about taxes, balanced budgets and spending. Pardon me , your excellence.
That's what friends and family are for. If you are a halfway decent person, and are in financial trouble, they will help you. Maybe people would be nicer to each other and behave themselves better if they knew that someday they might need the help of a friend or relative. Why should I pay taxes to people that do not have it anywhere near as bad as I do?
Do you seriously expect an average american family to afford a 100k heart transplant or 300K cancer treatment? It won't happen to every family of course but those unlucky ones to which it does happen will be financially ruined and/or unable to pay the price. And again the society will face a dilemma of either letting those people die in the streets without help or paying for those who opted out. Sorry, your theory is good, it just is not applicable to the real world.
hey, that's such a typical reply of neokunts, when they think about the less fortunate they always look at 'emseves and what they got available and then think the same situation apply to everyone, sayin': 'well if i got friends they gotta have friends too and if my friends can afford to help me their friends can as well'...if they go trough all this process in the first place, rofl.