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The fact that they already pay more taxes than everybody else. For the corporations that don't pay taxes, the reason they don't is due to deductible donations that they willingly give up to help others rather than have the money stolen from them.
If we tax the rich to a point they cannot make profits, this will tend to force them to move their companies and money to other countries. This will affect everybody in the long run through higher taxes for the middle/poor classes, less jobs, and less choices in the market place which will destroy the economy. I don't know about you, but I dread the idea of eating my pets just to feed myself and my family.
Most, if not all, of us have gained from Trumps policies. Have you not been paying attention to how great the economy has been?
Well, I don't know about you, but since I am self employed, I guess I can say my wages didn't increase (even though I have been making more sales the past couple of years which could be assumed to be an increase in wages). Maybe you should go speak with your boss (if you have one) and ask for a raise.
The truth is that the top tier's earnings have only increased 12% where the earnings of the middle/lower classes have jumped up 20% since Trump has taken office. I'm not sure how good you are at math, but maybe this will help you: 20% > 12%
Yeah, um, since I'm a republican, I don't have leaders to tell me what to do, so I don't have mantras. I go by facts that are out in the open if you just open your eyes to see them. I don't just focus on the minor details of "oh, the rich have more money than me, they should pay more. What bad could come from that?" I actually think of the broader picture of what the negative effects will be as well.
This whole thing about social services are socialism is a tired, overly used talking point of communist that only want to take control.
Our social services do resemble a lax version of socialism, but they are more of a "pay your fair share" system rather then spreading the wealth. We all need to have fire dept, police, roads, educations, etc, so these are services that benefit everybody. We do not need to steal money from the richest just because someone refuses to work.
Take a look at Cuba and Venezuela and get back to me on this.
I don't want socialized healthcare. Why are my taxes going to increase to pay for something that I don't want or need? How can you justify stealing money from anybody to pay for your own wants? That's very selfish of you, comrade.
Because we need that rich dude to provide the goods and/or services we need/want at reasonable prices and to pay the outrageous tax rate our dumbocrat politicians keep jacking up more and more. If that rich dude is gone, who is going to pay for these silly socialist programs that the Socialist Demonrats want to force upon us?
Unless you are a quadriplegic, which I doubt since you are able to type a lot of nonsense on this site, there are other ways to make money other than sucking of the teets of SI. You can start a hobby making crafts and sell them online or to your community. You can save up to buy stuff at garage sales or bulk online orders, and sell them for a profit. That's how I got started with my business.
Trust me, once you become self-sufficient, your outlook on life and society will become a lot better and you won't post silly stuff about how people should feel sorry for yourself and take care of you through taxes.
I'm on mobile so I'm not going to quote you a dozen times. I'll just reply to each paragraph.
1. Its estimated that 100 billion of tax revenue is lost each year due to tax dodging by the wealthy.
2. You have this false belief that the filthy rich must remain filthy rich in order for the mysterious economy creature to stay alive. This is one of the nonsense lies they sell you to protect their wealth. As far as taxing them to a point of not making a profit. I dont think you understand 10 mill + in revenue. You could tax them 90% and they would still clear more in a year than all of us in this thread combined, and a few million more on top.
3 and 4. Trump's policies make no difference to any private company, in terms of what to pay their employees. The name of the capitalist game is 'bottom line'. You maximize income and eliminate expenses. Labor budget is an expense. The people that run the companies got the benefit.
Unless you work on a farm or for the government, in which case, sorry for the rough last few years.
"The truth is that the top tier's earnings have only increased 12% where the earnings of the middle/lower classes have jumped up 20% since Trump has taken office. I'm not sure how good you are at math, but maybe this will help you: 20% > 12%"
Come on. You're smarter than that. Apparently your math isnt that great. 12% of 10,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 is 1,200,000 to 120,000,000.
20% of 30,000 to 120,000 is 6,000 to 24,000.
In this case 12% is 41,667 times greater than 20%.
5. You do the mantra stuff all the time, like every political post of yours is "witchhunt" "do-nothing-dems" "fake news" "orange man bad" etc. All repeated verbatim from fox and friends and right wing memes. If you catch yourself reciting a slogan or phrase as many do, that's a good time to self evaluate if what you're saying is actually true, or if you're just part of the herd. Dude, you even say "dumbocrat" in this post.
As far as relying on facts, in this thread alone you have been proven factually wrong three different times. But rather than acknowledge it. You sidestep with "well the other team is still wrong. Here's another reason why which is also factually untrue".
You dont care about facts, you care about your team winning always. Dems are always wrong in your view no matter the topic, and the reasons why you'll look up later. Instead of looking at facts now, coming to an informed conclusion and maybe lean a bit either way depending on the issue at hand. Informed and reasonable people arent so polarized.
I'm not really feeling the effort to go through the rest. I can just sum it up as greed, selfishness and lack of social responsibility. Which are traits that most people would be ashamed of showing to others.
Also, poor people unable to work and needing medication, to feed their children, proper housing.. these arent the enemies.