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[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29011289]Raise tax on them every where. Where they going to go? The country can't function without those tax rates. No ones even suggesting to go to 1950's US tax rates(90%), so I don't see why anyone has their panties in a twist.[/QUOTE] Yet they seem to do better than us :v:
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29011289]Raise tax on them every where. Where they going to go? The country can't function without those tax rates. No ones even suggesting to go to 1950's US tax rates(90%), so I don't see why anyone has their panties in a twist.[/QUOTE] People always treat high tax rates as something could never be done in the US, when you're exactly right. It was much, much higher in the 40s and 50s.
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;29011344]People always treat high tax rates as something could never be done in the US, when you're exactly right. It was much, much higher in the 40s and 50s.[/QUOTE] It's because most americans don't know their own history. I'm canadian, I've been forced in school to learn a very good over view of american history, and have taken college courses on it too, and it surprises me when I talk to americans about their own history how almost none of them seem to know very many reputable facts and just talk with a strange nostalgia of days they've no idea of.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29011571]It's because most americans don't know their own history. I'm canadian, I've been forced in school to learn a very good over view of american history, and have taken college courses on it too, and it surprises me when I talk to americans about their own history how almost none of them seem to know very many reputable facts and just talk with a strange nostalgia of days they've no idea of.[/QUOTE] I think it's the educational system here, which is very poor (in both quality and finances), as well as what appears to be a common mentality that anything you receive should not have to be taken away from you and that simply working hard will allow you to be successful, which just isn't true.
You may also want to take a look at this blog: [url]http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/why_we_cant_tax_ourselves_out.html[/url] Blog's sources: [url]http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133521,00.html[/url] [url]http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/08in35tr.xls[/url] Oh and here's another WSJ article [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704604704576220491592684626.html?mod=ITP_review_0]The Price of Taxing the Rich[/url]
Disclaimer: if you click either of those american thinker blogs you must take a truckload of salt with you. [editline]5th April 2011[/editline] maybe two each
First off, totally not worth the read. [quote]In 2011 the annual budget deficit will be nearly $1,665.0 Billion and in 2012: $1,100.0 Billion. If the Liberal Democrats in league with the Socialists, the Unions and the Communists, succeed in raising the highest marginal rate, how much more would Washington D.C[/quote] Not to encroach on your territory as a quote miner, but here you go.
[quote]If the Liberal Democrats in league with the Socialists, the Unions and the Communists,[/quote] Man I really hate this "us vs them" complex they have [editline]5th April 2011[/editline] that's not quote mining, that's picking a quote that's on the ground, in plain sight.
[QUOTE=Ridge;29011238][URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260067214828295.html"]Wall Street Journal disagrees[/URL] [URL="http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/where-americas-money-is-moving.html"]Forbes sides with WSJ[/URL][/QUOTE] >Wall Street Journal >Wall Street [img]http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/reggie_notmyproblem.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Glaber;29011869]You may also want to take a look at this blog: [url]http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/why_we_cant_tax_ourselves_out.html[/url] Blog's sources: [url]http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133521,00.html[/url] [url]http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/08in35tr.xls[/url] Oh and here's another WSJ article [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704604704576220491592684626.html?mod=ITP_review_0]The Price of Taxing the Rich[/url][/QUOTE]To be honest, you'd be better off in comedy.
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