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Originally Posted by Robbie
I agree...it's hard to understand why I have to hand over big checks to the govt. that I could definitely use. And meanwhile, people who pay nothing at all scream about "fairness"
Life isn't fair.
I've had times in my life where I didn't have a damn dime to my name and had to struggle to make it. I've had other times where I had so much money I couldn't spend it fast enough.
But the one constant thing was: I MADE those decisions that put me in the position I was in.
When I was dumb enough to fuck around and be poor...it didn't have much to do with "fairness". I didn't expect or WANT any help from anybody, I just wanted enough to get by and have a good time.
And when I made great money...it was because I decided I had had enough of just partying and not WANTING anything. I decided I wanted to have a nice house and a bunch of nice cars, etc.
So without any help from the govt., and not caring one little bit about "fairness", I got in the porn business in the mid 1990's in my mid 30's and proceeded to make more money than all the guys I went to school had in all their lives.
Was that "fair"? No. I was smarter than they were. I made better grades than they did in school, and I was able to do what I wanted all my life. And when what I wanted was to have money...that's what I did.
It's NOT fair that the majority of people can't do that.
And it's not fair that a lion eats an antelope either.
Life ain't fair. And I'll never be happy about having to take care of and pay for people who are not in my family. I don't want to work for other people.
That's why communism always fails. You take away a person's incentive to get rich...and they become unproductive.
What's the point of busting your ass if the govt. is just going to take it from you and distribute it among people who don't have your abilites?
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The people that 'actually' pay nothing, make less than $22.5k year with a family of 4. Everyone else pays, the exact same rate as you do, on the based of money earned. And you, actually pay nothing on that amount as well.
Another words, your first $20k or $50 (whatever they are exactly I don't know) is taxed at the "exact" same rate as everyone else. Just because you earn more, does not mean you pay more than the next guy, on the equal money earned.
Now, the extra money you make over that $50, 100 or 1 million, is taxed at a higher rate, but again, equal with everyone else in those brackets, and not unfair, unequal, or unbalanced compared to those that don't, as you and them, are taxed at the same rate, when compared at those levels.
What needs to happen is the successful and the truly rich, recognize that it took the Country being the way it is, allowing for the opportunities it did, paying for your education, helping provide a level of safety, security, etc that "ALLOWED" us all to succeed.
It seems natural to us now, because it was already in place for us!
In the same situation, in a 3rd world country, all the drive in the world, and 99.999999999% chance you (all of us) wouldn't have been any different than the next starving person.
You should OVERLY want to support what helped make your life great so others in the future can have same 'equal' opportunities that you took advantage of.
Don't get me wrong me I don't think we should be taxed to death, at all... but pretending that the truly rich can't do more, is a load of shit. I lived in Canada, more taxes DO NOT kill you, they make you smarter!