Re: State sounds alarm over road funding

Free Lunch wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:05:31 -0500, in misc.transport.road Rich Piehl <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<ONwri.57$xq2.6@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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.

Depends what you mean. Certainly the investments the United States has
made as a nation have paid off very well. Fighting stupid wars has not.

Wars have nothing to do with it.

It drives investment off shore. It drives the wealthy off shore. It's the reason companies farm out their call centers to India. It's cheaper to do all that than to pay a higher level of tax to compensate for the people that want to give things to the poor.

And, unless it stops, is going to be one more example of what is driving this country right into the ground.

Sorry, you can argue social benefits all you want, but without the investment of the wealthy (not taxing into oblivion) this country just keeps slipping into an abyss.

Take care,
Rich

God bless the USA

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

--Kansas
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