Cut the taxes of rich conservatives, and raise them on all liberals. Problem solved!

[richardhutnik]

SamuelRSmith said:

richardhutnik said:

SamuelRSmith said:
Doesn't this already exist? If you don't think you're being taxed enough, cut a check to the treasury.

Funny thing about this.  Almost everyone doesn't think they pay too little taxes on a personal level.  But they feel that the upper class, rich, and corporations, pay too low taxes.  A decent percentage also feel that the poor don't pay enough (over 20%):

 http://www.gallup.com/poll/1714/taxes.aspx

 

Most people feel what they pay now is fair though.  That is the thing, no one thinks that they don't pay enough.  The thing is that paying the government isn't something done for giggles in its own right, but to do things with it.

Ah, so liberals just want to tax everybody else more, and not themselves.

And, yet, to the people on the streets, I'd be the selfish one, because I'd want to eliminate all the tax that they pay.

Modern liberalism is where collectism currently rests.  Collectists won't do anything alone, but will do it, if everyone else will do it, if the end result is that the greater good is served.  That is how it works with that political perspective.