Why we need a flat tax.

[Slimebeast]

MontanaHatchet said:

Slimebeast said:

Like Mafoo is saying, it's my time that is being stolen! Work work work 8 hours a day (over 10 hours if u include lunch break and transportation), do you think I am doing it voluntarily?

Im fu***ing wasting my life and getting robbed!! As a doctor in Sweden I make just a measily $54,000 a year (before taxes) after almost 10 years of experience at this work, 6 years of med school and $75,000 in student loans.

And then this myth, everyone I meet out there believes I'm wealthy because Im a doctor.

My closest relatives were unfortunate in life, so they're pretty much living off of wellfare ($800-$1000/month) and it feels so wrong that I can't afford to help them because the state is robbing $3500 off of me every month and giving it to others. $3500 worth of services that I produce by treating and helping 20 patients every day.

Instead of giving some of it to people I love I am forced to give it to leeches. Meanwhile my family gets to see the angry and irritated part of me because Im tired after work. It's so wrong.

Really? Is this the idealogy of the right? "Me, me, me?" You even emphasized this my bolding "my time," as if somehow your time were holy and special. Anyone who values their time so highly would never spent a second of it playing videogames, since that is, in the end, a waste of time. Look, my tax dollars go towards building and repairing roads that I'll never use, and giving services to people that I'll never meet. And I'm happy to do this, because I know that other people are doing the same for me. You're not being robbed, stop being so sensationalist. The people who get services like welfare aren't leeches. If you were put in the same situation, or you lost your job and you needed assistance, should people just forget about you and think of you as a leech?

It's a selfish attitude, and I don't like it.

I am for all those things you listed, but it's about the proportions. The proportions are perverse here, where over half of what I produce by my sweat and tears is given away to very costly projects. The taxes are so high because government spends them on so many useless costly projects, beyond the basic stuff that everyone is for (Im for buidlings roads, providing cheap health care, giving well fare and stuff).

You don't even read what I wrote.