Re: State sounds alarm over road funding

Premier Bush wrote:
Rich Piehl wrote:
pigsty1953@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It is not anything I have not heard before. It is not ignorant,
it is reality based, so what are you worried about?
But I do disagree. A flat tax is inherently reqressive, that is
its main problem. IOW the less you make, the higher percentage
you pay. That is what is so regressive about sales taxes. Poor
people pay a higher percentage.
No, a 10% tax is a 10% tax. Whether you're making $5K a year or
$500K a year. What could be fairer than that?


It is horribly unfair, and you know it. 10% of $5K is $500, that
hurts a lot more to some one making $5K then 10% of $500K which is
$50,000. And that sir is one of the reasons it will never happen.

Ah, so what you're proposing is taking from the rich and for the
benefit of the poor? It's called socialism.

Sure it is, but so what? We already have socialism in this country. Socialism isn't inherently bad, neither is capitalism or most other non-totalitarian political systems.


For starters socialism doesn't work long term.




--
And if I claim to be a wise man
it surely means that I don't know.

--Kansas
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