Bar Stool Economics...

[TheRealMafoo]

akuma587 said:

HappySqurriel said:

I want to let you in on a little secret that few people seem to be able to understand ... Regardless of how "Progressive" your tax system is, the people who don't have the ability to pass their increased costs along to someone else (the "Poor" and "Middle Class") pay all of the taxes. Now, you may not directly be paying these taxes but when you don't get a good pay increase (and everything you buy has gone up in price) in order for the wealthy decision makers to have more money to pay their taxes and maintain their standard of living you're not better off; and you have paid their taxes for them.

Yes, because we all know that the rich are kind, benevolent, and pass along every extra dollar they can to those beneath them. They certainly wouldn't just keep it to themselves.

Seriously, do you even believe what you just posted, or do you live in a box isolated from all human contact.  Rich or poor, human beings are greedy, greedy individuals who think of themselves before anybody else.

I think you read his post wrong Akuma.

He is saying that everyone with money generates it off the poor and middle class. If you raise there taxes, they will just raise the cost of there goods and services to offload the expense to the middle class and the poor.

He was saying it because he thinks the rich are not "kind, benevolent, and pass along every extra dollar they can to those beneath them".