Re: OT: oil profits

On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:53:38 -0400, "Fred Burton" <fburton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"McDuck" <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First, just because the Fed Gov't is running deficits, does NOT mean that
you
have to raise taxes. That's the liberal mantra. There IS another solution.

CUT SPENDING!!!!


Of course, one COULD cut spending to balance the budget. Bush and the
Conservatives chose not to do that, preferring an expensive war and a
wasteful farm program that is promoting poverty around the world. But
I agree, and any rational person would agree, that cutting spending is
certainly one possible way to balance the budget. Nothing to do with
Liberal or Conservative.

But cutting spending was not the issue you raised and I responded to.
You claimed that redistribution was not the function of taxation ---
that raising revenue was the function. In fact, both are the function.
Currently, the tax system is not raising the revenue needed to run the
government. My point is that if we are going to have the tax system do
its job --- raising the money needed to fund the level of government
we have chosen, we still need to decide who pays. If we decide to
rescind the Bush tax cuts for the rich to balance the budget, we have
a redistributive tax, even as the tax is raising the revenue needed to
fund government.


Second ... no, the FAIR answer is to make EVERY person share the load
equally be paying the same percentage of their income. Affordability when
it comes to taxation is utterly and completely irrelevent.

You are entitled to your view, not widely shared.


Forcing the rich to pay a disproportionate share of taxes is nothing more
and nothing less than thievery by government fiat, and outright economic
descrimination. Simply the fulfillment of the Robin Hood fantasies of
all you fucking liberals.


Do you know what theft is? I ask, because, by definition, a lawful tax
cannot be theft. And a tax in this county, whether progressive or
regressive, is not by "fiat" --- it is through representative
government --- the form of taxation that the Revolutionary War was
fought to ensure.

My fantasies were about Maid Marion. I thought it was the
Conservatives who, oh, never mind <g>.

<snip of stuff too complex for me to understand, or perhaps gibberish>


Like always, you're full of ***.

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