Yann forwards:
At a time when the top 1% of U.S. citizens owns more wealth than
the bottom 95% the new U.S. President wants to further cut the taxes
of that wealthiest 1% while vast numbers of the bottom 95% live
paycheck-to-paycheck and owe enormous credit card debts.
MJ
Those 'wealthiest' persons currently 'contribute' a 33% 'share'
of the income taxes extracted while only creating 15% of the
earnings.
Those bottom 50% pay less than 5% of the income tax burden.
Why should any person pay more or less to fund a monopoly service
which has force as its insurance to obedience?
Yann forwards:
Whether Democrat or Republican, whether Gore or Bush, the result
is the same: the U.S. is damn close to becoming a Third World nation.
MJ
How so? Opressive plunderous Government that peddles its pull ... all
the while decimating production?
Yann forwards:
The fact is that tax rate for the wealthiest Americans was 88% in
the two decades following World War II, a time when the U.S.
economy was booming. Working-class and middle-class Americans
saved more and charged less then, too.
MJ
The cost of Government was far less than $100 per person as well.
That those 'wealthier' people have not be bludgeoned by the theft
of taxation to the same degree as the 'poorer' is merely a function
of time. Lessening the burdens of taxation for EVERYONE (especially
those who actually shoulder the burden) will necessarily help to
improve evereone's lot.
The problem is spending (most of which is unconstitutional). It is simply
more expedient to create factions to create diversionary squabbles.
Again, why should any person pay more or less to fund a monopoly
service which has force as its insurance to obedience?
Regard$,
--MJ
Federal government revenues rose ...
from about $2/person in 1791,
to about $3/person in 1860,
to about $15/person at the peak of the war between the states,
to about $8/person in 1910,
to about $62/person at the peak of WW1,
to about $2100/person in the 1980s,
until it currently exceeds $8870/person.
-- Congressional Budget Office (all figures in constant dollars)
