Final-Fan said:
Superman4 said:
I hope you are actually reading what is in the tax cuts and not listening to CNNs BS. Everyone gets a tax cut. Obviously anyone who actually undertsands how percentages and money works would realize that on a percentage basis the more you make the more you save when your percentage taken goes down. The percentage however is the same. Why should you get taxed at a higher percentage than someone else just because you make more? How is that a fair tax? 11% is 11% if you make 100,000 a year you pay 11,000 if you make 50,000 you pay 5,500. The person making 100K pays double what the person making 50K does but also makes double. Why should the person making double need to pay a higher percentage of tax? They are already paying more. What needs to happen is all welfair programs need to end, all illigals need to be deported, Medical insurance needs to go back to an individuals right to choose and a flat tax with no exemptions needs to be implimented. No more right offs for anyone.
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Why should very high incomes be taxed at a higher rate than very low incomes? How about the fact that basic survival takes money. Here is a very oversimplified, but logically sound, argument:
Let's say you spend five thousand dollars a year on food and make twenty thousand dollars a year. Not eating isn't really an option, so after spending money on "not dying" you have fifteen thousand dollars a year. But you pay taxes on twenty thousand. That's a large difference. The poor person can be considered to be burdened by the taxes they paid on money they had no choice but to spend on basic survival.
Now let's say you spend five thousand dollars a year on food and make two hundred thousand. You have one-ninety-five kay left after that, and get taxed on two hundred kay. A tiny difference, carrying a proportionally tiny burden.
So even if we lay aside arguments that high income people can afford a comparatively greater burden, it certainly makes no sense to saddle POORER people with a comparatively higher burden. Do you disagree with the argument I have made here that a completely flat tax would give them a greater burden?
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I get what you are saying however I dont agree with it. On a percentage basis everyone should be taxed the same. If you make more you pay more just based on the percentage. Generally people who make more spend more and have higher costs of living, a poor person isnt goping to have a 5k per month mortgage or a $600 month car payment. They will live within their means. Rent or mortgage will be lower and car/transportation will be lower. Most people live to their means and dont have savings, pay check to pay check is pretty normal unluss you are very rich. 100K a year for a 5 person houshold is not a lot of money. Even if both parents work and make 60K per year or 120K combined, having a house payment and 1 or two car payments would make it hard to save anything unless they ate top ramen every day and didnt have TV or internet. Increasing the tax burden based on income puts the middle class in the worst situation of the three especially if you are at the bottom of the top percentage. You will end up paying the most tax even though you barely met the tax bracket. Keep the tax rate the same for everyone, stop all write off of any kind, stop requiring people to buy insurance of any kind and let people spend their money how they please. It sounds great to have the rich fund the poor until you realize that if you are the rich person you are the one working while the poor person is getting a free ride. It may not be a nice ride but a lot of people in that situatiuon choose to stay their because they dont have to work.
