Quote: (12-20-2013 12:01 AM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Quote: (12-19-2013 11:42 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote:
Surely they pay more taxes than the poor (b/c the poor do NOT have much if anything to pay), but they pay far less than their fair share… and the poor need most of their income to survive... the rich can afford to pay higher taxes, b/c their income and their wealth already allow for them to live cushy lives. Also, many times they have the ability to pay high falutent accountants and attorneys to figure out ways to minimize their tax burden.
In essence, they are leeches that are taking disproportionately than they should.
The rich are leeches, even though that one percent of the population contributes forty percent of all tax revenues?
Even though I may sound a little accusatory, I provided various sources for my thoughts, and various explanations of these points through out this thread.
Quote: (12-20-2013 12:01 AM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Are you an avowed socialist? I ask, because only a socialist could think that way. What do you consider your political affiliation?
These various topics have NOTHING to do with me, so I am NOT sure what it matters about any political affiliation that I may have.
Anyhow, I will entertain your question a little bit:
Throughout this thread, I have provided extensive rationale for my thinking on various scattered topics regarding the role of govt..
I am a regular person who has thoughts and critical thinking about the information that I read and write. I am also fairly well concerned about the role of money in politics and politician and mainstream media being overly influenced by money. In my thinking money does NOT equal speech, as was espoused in the Supreme Court's
Citizen's United ruling.
I agree with a lot of the ideas that are espoused in Coffee Party USA .. The group is NOT a political party b/c they are meant to be trans-partisan. The group has various resources on their webpage and various podcasts. I am NOT a member of the group, even though I agree with a lot of their core principles, to the extent they have core principles. Some individuals in their group espouse ideas that I do NOT agree with.
http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/
You may get some ideas about my thinking if you were to refer to some of the sources that I cited in various earlier postings in this thread or even to read some of my postings in this thread...
Nothing special about any of it.... I am NOT wedded to any party philosophy or any particular outcome. I do NOT even really like Obamacare that much, even though it seems to be a step in the right direction towards providing a basic social safety net.