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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
Yup. Raise taxes on capital gains. Lower the payroll tax.
Working people should NOT pay a higher tax rate on money earned with their sweat, than the rich do on money made by money while they lounge by the fucking pool!
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Aren't you forgetting about the millions of Americans (including seniors with retirement plans) who make money off of investments?
By the way...I was watching CNN and they had one of Romney's guys explain what he's looking to do.
He wants to lower capital gains taxes for anyone making LESS than $200,000.00
In other words, the working men and women and the retirees living off of 401K plans.
His own tax rate would stay the same.
Also, just wanted to point out: yes, some "rich" people lounge by the pool (the kardashians for instance).
But most people who are "rich" are driven and ambitious work-a-holic types who put in more hours in a week than any "working" men and women who are just employees and work 40 hours a week and do no more than they have to in order to get that paycheck.
When you own your own business there is literally NO end of the day (no 9 to 5 bullshit) and there are NO vacations or holidays.
If you're like me...then you are driven by ambition. I work on my "vacations", I work on holidays. I work late nights and early mornings. I work on weekends.
Nobody gets rich just laying by the pool. (except those goddam kardashians lol)