All financial institutions to be run by the federal government.

[Avinash_Tyagi]

TheRealMafoo said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

TheRealMafoo said:

NJ5 said:
Mafoo is a conservative idealist who is very far removed from reality. It's not the first time I see him wanting to portray government-provided services as "slavery", which really cracks me up.

Ok, so if we were a country of 2 people. (you and me), and I made $10 and hour, and you made $20. A service we wanted for our country cost $2000 each (let's say health care).

If I "taxed" you $3000 for this service, and I was "taxed" $1000, I would have to work 100 hours to pay for it, and you would have to work 150 (50 of those so I could have health care).

How is forcing you to work 50 hours for my benefit not slavery?

Well actually by merely taxing the $20 wage earner $2670 and the $10 wage earner $1330 would result in both worker working about 133 hours to pay for the service, an equitable result

So you’re for a flat tax? Perfect. We are on the same page.

No,all I'm saying is if we had a system with two people in the country we could create a tax plan which seemed fair to both, however we have hundreds of millions, and where people make 40 times more than another person, not just double, so we have a different method which is fair under our current conditions, that is by taxing the rich much higher and not taxing the poor, who can't afford it anyways.