amp316 said:
So everyone that has a lot of money killed themselves to get it and people that don't make as much partied too much and didn't pay their dues? This is a load of crap. Most of the people with a lot of money didn't earn it. They inherited it. You know that I'm right. Most of the people truly killing themselves and getting bad backs (if that's not paying dues I don't know what is) don't make nearly as much money. The people that partied to much as you call it do all of the work for people that you claim have payed there dues.
Also, I've had Anne Couler and she's pretty lame in bed. |
So, how does raising income tax impact people who inherited their money?
How much money you earn as income works in a similar fashion to how products are priced in a free market ... If you have a rare skillset which is in high demand you earn a lot more than if you have a common skillset which is not in high demand. Most of the people who earn a lot of money spent years developing a rare skillset which is in high demand, while most of the people who don't make a lot of money made life decisions which prevented them from developing valueable skills.
Now, I could be using my Canadian perspective (where we already pay way higher taxes, and education is readily available and affordable) on an argument about American politics, which could be causing problems with why we see things differently ... But Paul_Warren's argument wasn't about whether he could work hard to improve his lifestyle, it was clearly that he wanted what other people had and he wasn't willing to take the steps necessary to get it.
