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[why?]

Originally Posted by fmicle

Didn't Reagan run huge deficits and quadrupled the US national debt? Just asking...



Now this is where I fully agree with you

You're funny.

Originally Posted by fmicle

As for the rich people paying more taxes, in all fairness, they do pay more taxes. My issue is that they can actually afford to pay more taxes, because they have a lot more money (duh). A tax increase of $3k a year for me would mean that I may have to skip that planned vacation to Hawaii, a tax increase of $150k a year for Warren Buffet means what? He'll have a little less money to invest into a hedge fund? I really can't see how a tax increase for the rich would affect their lifestyle in the slightest.

But, as I said in the beginning, let's not forget that they already pay the biggest share, as it is described in this awesome article:

http://www.amazingposts.com/2008/07/...tem-works.html

Um, a 150k tax increase on warren buffet would prolly means he fires a few people, of course with how cheap he is in paying his staff, he'd prolly have to fire 4 or 5 people or more to make up the difference.

But in regards to actual companies, every penny they pay in taxes is less money they can pay to employees, shareholders, and it also means their products have to be more expensive as well.

[krolos]

As far as % goes the rich pay less tax, anyone recall the 60 minutes interview
with WARREN Buffet, he said it himself, his staff pays around the the 28%
and himself only 17%, like I said earlier government by the Rich, For the Rich.

To give the rich tax breaks, republicans argue will trickle down to the people
and create more jobs better pay, yeah right? since when has that ever been the case, ship the jobs overseas and more money in their fat pockets, thanks to 8 years of The Bush/Cheney administration we are now at the brink of
the GREAT DEPRESSION # 2.

The concept of a a free Country {Live Free Or Die} has been brain washed into to The American People now for several Centuries, only the Rich has
reaped the the benifits of that concept.

[fmicle]

Originally Posted by krolos

As far as % goes the rich pay less tax, anyone recall the 60 minutes interview
with WARREN Buffet, he said it himself, his staff pays around the the 28%
and himself only 17%, like I said earlier government by the Rich, For the Rich.

To give the rich tax breaks, republicans argue will trickle down to the people
and create more jobs better pay, yeah right? since when has that ever been the case, ship the jobs overseas and more money in their fat pockets, thanks to 8 years of The Bush/Cheney administration we are now at the brink of
the GREAT DEPRESSION # 2.

The concept of a a free Country {Live Free Or Die} has been brain washed into to The American People now for several Centuries, only the Rich has
reaped the the benifits of that concept.

+ 1,000,000

[fmicle]

Originally Posted by why?

You're funny.

Hmm... let's see, under Reagan the debt raised from $997 billion to $2.85 trillion... Ooops, my bad, that's triple, not quadruple...

And I guess Reagan wasn't trying to be funny when he said that the debt was the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.

[krolos]

The Forbes Fortune 400 wealthiest Americans now again got richer by a big
8%, thanks to the Courtesy of the Bush/Cheney Polices.
Look were the the middle class {what middle class?} working Americans are
today, well someone has to Pay right?.
when Reagan took office in 1981 the national dept was 997 billion, gave the rich big tax cuts, by the end of the Reagan/W.H.bush 12 years later it was a monstrous 4 Trillion,
Clinton took Office and reversed those policies, raised taxes on the rich and lowered them for the
middle class/ lower class, it resulted in one of the best economic times this country has ever seen,maybe the last.
When W.Bush took office Clinton had left a 236 Billion Surplus, when W. Bush left Office it was a
565 billion dept 150 billion of that got stolen out of Social Security.