rfenst wrote:Wrong. I just want everyone subject to taxes to pay "equally." The tax code needs to be amended to foreclose the uber-wealthy from tax avoidance- just because they are uber-wealthy. They may be smarter, take greater risks, earn greater rewards, have access to better resources, but at the end of the day, that doesn't, IMO, entitle them to a proportionally smaller dose of poison than everyone else. No one likes having to pay taxes, but complaining about that fact incessantly is useless. They will never go away. It's just a bunch of words that solve nothing. Try making reality/$hit work for you whichever way it is shoveled in your direction. It works if you really try- instead of just complaining about it all the time like a one-trick pony.
In other words, poison is good for ya, and you are one of those "you didn't build that", "pay your fair share" O'Biden types?
What's yours is the governments and they'll wisely decide what you can keep? The tax code is a monsterous abomination. Are you one of those that think...well if we just tweak it here and there, make it a teensy more bigger to make it more equitable, it'll be all better and the evil will be exorcised from it?
So I should shut up, stop complaining and watch what's left of the old republic continue to go to $hit so future generations can share in even greater monsters brought on by servitude to an increasingly centralized government? A bright future of more endless wars and endless corruption. Yeh! Get what piece of the pie you can grab now and screw the kids and the grandkids, let them eat cake!
I'm an American traditionalist, I don't celebrate what's become fashionable incarnations of leftist tyranny like Marxism, the Progressive Income Tax, and all the associated evils they've spawned and I won't surrender to the idea that it'll be reality forever and ever and they'll never go away. Oh, they'll go away one way or another, sooner or later alright. It's just a matter of the level of misery that'll come by trying to postpone the inevitable.
Maybe you should heed the words of earlier men and their forewarnings. like Justice Stephen Field, who predicted a small progressive tax,
“will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.” Damn! That guy must of had a crystal ball to see where that path would lead to the future as it has become today.
The Progressive Income Tax in U.S. HistoryThe root of much evil. https://fee.org/articles/the-progressive-income-tax-in-us-history/