Comments on: A New “Equal Rights” Amendment?

By: nan emouse

nan emouse — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:14:44 +0000

My point Rod is that if you only go after the rich to pay the taxes at a high rate, eventually they won’t be rich anymore. Either they will stop being so productive because they can’t keep the fruit of THEIR labor or you’ll take so much money in taxes that they won’t be rich anymore.

Sort of like The obama telling Joe the plumber he wants to spread the wealth around. Taking from the makers and giving to the takers only works for so long. When there’s more takers than makers – well think about it. I guess you’d have had to be a maker to understand.

By: dog

dog — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:13:36 +0000

What difference does all this make if our nation continues to wage insanely expensive and corrupt wars around the world? Both parties don’t have the guts to end the wars. We keep hiring private and corrupt contractors to wage war over and over. WE need to wake up someday.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:48:54 +0000

You are absolutely right Rod!
Minimum wage $20,000.00 10% $2000.00

CEO wage $15,000,000.00 10%
$1,500,000.00

It is drastically different!
Unfair? Hardly! With that, the minimum wage earner would be more motivated to oversee the jerks that are running things.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:59:56 +0000

“…at some point they are not rich anymore.” What?

Fairness means that the rich pay their fair share, which they are not paying now. Nobody wants to tax them into poverty.

The flat tax is unfair because 10% of a minimum wage income is drastically different from 10% of a CEO salary of $15,000,000.00.

By: nan emouse

nan emouse — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:00:43 +0000

Brent, who’s going to pay for the free higher education, the free health care, the free everything?

Dude, everyone wants their Katrina money, but unfortunately someone has to pay for it. And the rich ain’t where it’s at – at some point they’re not rich anymore.

Cyclops is right. Everyone needs skin in the game. If you have too many people getting too much Katrina money, they can vote themselves anything and the whole system becomes moribund like the old USSR and even then they had the rich and the powerful and then the drones, they just didn’t have the middle class or the entreprenurial spirit.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:43:42 +0000

Please share just how a flat tax is “unfair”.

By: brent

brent — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:38:28 +0000

flat tax, . . .what a ridiculous idea, instead how about we give all and every American free higher education after high school, . .simply an extension of education available for all people, Whether it be a community college or a degree to become a surgeon , . . flat free rate for all people, . . along with flat free health care for all, without the middle man insurance companies, . . that flatness makes more sense than a flat but unfair tax

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:24:00 +0000

How about a flat tax so everyone has skin in the game? If nothing else, it would get a bunch of people off their rear ends and out to vote!

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:42:22 +0000

Never.

Off topic, slightly: SE Idaho tea party people want to lower the sales tax to 4% and expand it to services. SW Idaho tea party people are against that idea. (Idaho Statesman article last Sunday) I find that amusing.

What services?? Doctor visits, dentist visits?

IMO we need to scrap the sales tax (its regressive) and collect that money from income tax on upper bracket earners.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:02:14 +0000

Rod, when was the last time you had an opportunity to “vote” yourself a raise?