Why I am leaving the US...

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fastyxx said:

TheRealMafoo said:

fastyxx said:

@ OP

One down, 100 million to go.  Take Rush and Sarah with you, if you please.

If all the people you want to leave left, who's money would you spend? All people would have to actually pay there own way.

Give me a break.    A dozen greedy replacements will fill your shoes in the first week.  

 

Your illustration of a guy working his way up to being regional manager illustrates the flaws in how you think and why I could never agree with you. He worked his butt off and now has to pay more taxes.  Oh no.  He has to help people financially the way he was helped.  With public schools and subsidized health care and likely at least somewhat publicly funded higher education, and in a million different ways that our tax dollars help us all every day.  

The amount of money the government has that does the things you mentioned - education and health care - is a minor fraction of what they take. So your very wrong. What about that 10% they take from us to fund the wars in the middle east? Or the 8.5% they take to fund a rotting pension plan that doesn't work?

Because as we all know, someone getting promoted and rising to the top is always based solely on one man's dedication and ambition.  There's no racial/gender/class bias, no luck, no hard work from all the fellow employees that may or may not also earn promotions, no nepotism, no favoritism.  It's all pure and clean.  So why not take all the spoils one can manipulate the system to garner for one's self, and why not just leave the others to fend for themselves.  Survival of the fittest, right?  If those poor people wanted to make more money, they'd just try harder.  It's as simple as that.  

You act like its 100% dirty. The truth is somewhere else. Its closer to 80% luck, 20% favoritism. Even if its 50/50, the fact is...I'd rather take a 50/50 shot at becoming rich than a 100% shot at being poor.

The tax burden in this country - especially with the loopholes and advantages in tax code for the wealthiest - is so low when compared to our own history and to that of so many countries worldwide - that to whine about it is new heights of greed and selfishness and egocentrism.  

I don't think Mafoo or anyone else disagrees with that. We all want a fair tax system, that ensures that people who make money are taxed properly. I'm a big fan of a flat tax minor income tax for millionaires. Either way, we DO need a new tax system in America, because it does promote credits, loopholes, and other means to exploit others.

So good luck in New Zealand.  And since you don't like the government using our money, please renounce your citizenship and stay away from any ambassadorships, security and any aid that the U.S. may provide any Pacific nations.  Don't want to waste the precious tax dollars.