the proposed increase in taxes you are so livid about, Gruss, will still leave people paying $10-90 000 pay a disproportionate share of taxes when sales taxes, gross receipt taxes and Social Security are considered. Not to mention access to accountants. Check out what happens to Social Security taxes over $80,000.
Dana On 2/8/07, Denilicious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/7/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Denny wrote: > > > The attitude is what bugs me. This isn't a closed system, like > > > J-man pointed out. > > > > Let's look at Iraq. > > -------------------------- > > Who's dying over there? Not me nor anyone in my family. Nor am I > > asked to sacrifice anything. Yet Iraq has been tied to my very > > security. Shouldn't I be contributing somehow? > > > Um, hate to break it to ya, but you are. And our kids will. Thru $$$ > > Do you know how much the military death benefit used to be? $12,000! > > What a crock of shit! > > > > The point is that if Iraq is important enough to fight in, then we > > should all be fighting somehow. If it's not important enough then > > nobody should fight. > > > Well, we're fighting "terror", Gruss! We do that by being Americans! Woot! > > > Taxes. > > ------------- > > Same concept. Don't punish 1% of the population by making them pay > > for 100% of the people. And, yes, that's exactly what Edwards > > suggestion does. > > > > If he says part of the money comes from X, fine, but then it all > > should come from X or the balance should be applied to everyone. > > > I don't think this works, fractions wize. I can't think of a good example, > but anyways-- Are you proposing the same argument Jim was about > closed/open source? Should you pay for, say, shit, I can't think of > anything good, but say, cervical cancer, perhaps. Even men!?!? > > That's crazy. Make the chicks pay their taxes, dudes ours, whatnot. > > Bah. Sorry for the poor attempt at explaining whatever it is I mean. > > Summary > > ------------------- > > If we all benefit from a government policy we should all pay. > > > Well, I can't explain it good I don't think. "All" is such a -- word. > Eh. =] > > :D > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227483 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
