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in 3 years it will be 100 years of taxes. Taxes are a necessary thing.
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Yes they are. Without them a government can't exist. But creating taxes just to soak the rich is an abuse of the reason governments exist in the first place. You can argue the value of helping others all you like, but forcing someone else to fulfill a moral obligation as you see it is abuse, no matter how you sugarcoat it.
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The thing is, The Mega rich pay a disproportionate amount. They have so much expendable income yet are not asked to pay much more than the rest of us (unless you are cripplingly poor).
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By whose standard? Taxes exist so government can function. Anything more than that is an attempt to legislate your personal morality, pure-and-simple.
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so when it comes down to it, me making 5,000 for school and having somwhere around $900.00 taken out has more effect than a rich man having his 35% top rate taken.
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That statement makes no sense. You making "5,000" what? If you only make $5000 per year you pay no taxes. I know a guy who gets a huge tax break because of his nine kids. The people who prudently decided to help the population problem by having none have to pay for their schooling. Right? Wrong?
The problem with money isn't this country isn't the bloated individuals with "too much money" - it's the bloated government that keeps spending other people's money to expand its own wasteline (and yes, I misspelled that intentionally).
Yes, taxes are necessary. But they are still a necessary
evil, and until you see it that way you will continue to think that government is the answer to all our problems, when in fact it is the creator of most of them.