Brewha wrote:In all fairness – “fare” is a bit of a weasel word. I suppose will spend the rest of our lives (as a nation) debating what a “fare share of tax” is. Seems a lot of folks here believe that the wealth already pay a fair share (keep watching Fox).
I doubt anyone here is ‘wealthy’. Oh, you might be deep into six figures, have a second home, take may trips and even drive two cars. Well off perhaps. Maybe your wife and girlfriend both have b00b-jobs. Hell, some of you might even be ‘rich’. But no one here sits on the Fed or is a captain of industry. Real wealth isn’t about your reported income – Ya’ll are thinking taxes – I’m talking big picture. We are middle class, as in we work for wages. The wealthy don’t have wages as such.
Interesting that no one debates the cost of war or the businesses get tax breaks and subsidies. But everyone cracking down over $60k a year thinks their wealthy, and is afraid that their taxes will go up. And no – I don’t have a new tax code to propose. That would not stop the dept. It would just keep us arguing about how many M&M’s we get to keep while the revenue gets pissed away on another war and business ‘incentives’ for someone’s ‘special friend’. And that is not ‘fare’.
So you don't want to answer?
In my opinion, if you are "deep into six figures, have a second home, etc" then you are wealthy.
Just because we as a nation have already redefined what "poor" is (we're the only country in the world where the so-called poor have an issue with being overweight, carry a cell phone on every person over 10 years old, and complain that their 2nd television set isn't high def), but I'm not ready to redefine "Middle Class" to those who earn that much money and own more than one home.
So maybe you want to separate Upper Class from the truly wealthy?
OK. That's fine.
But then you still have to answer the question of what is "fair", since you're the one who proclaimed they don't pay enough and only the Fox lemmings could possibly think such an absurdity.
So belly up to the bar.
YOU stated that the wealthy don't pay their fair share.
YOU claim that only fox news diciples could believe otherwise.
So now YOU should stop being so vague and stop trying to deflect the issue by discussion other unrelated (albeit quite important) topics such as the cost of war.