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Originally Posted by Yngwie
Raising taxes on the rich/wealthy would not help anything. Anyone who thinks that it would is fucking delusional. I'm not rich/wealthy nor am I an American, but the REAL problem, just like Canada or any other country is the Government and all of their wasteful spending. Raising taxes will NOT stop that and it will not help a god damned thing.
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Sure it's going to help.
Taxes are going to be raised one way or another. Should we raise the taxes on the middle class, with the average family bringing in $55k a year?
And you need to define wasteful spending too. I've mentioned this freeway bypass over and over again; It's a big thing in my hometown. In short a small freeway runs smack through Main Street USA, slowing the freeway down to a stop and causing gridlock in my little hometown. They made a thirteen mile bypass so this freeway goes around the city. It costs some $350 million, some of which came from federal stimulus money. Is this a waste?
Seems to me like over a thousand people worked full time on this project for the past seven years. That's a lot of jobs, and all of these people spent their money locally. The construction workers spent their paychecks in our restaurants and gas stations. The local concrete companies were fucking giddy because they had to double their staffs to handle the work. $350 million wasn't wasted; It was injected right back into our economy. Steel was brought in from PA on the East Coast, shipped all the way to California outside of San Fran, where another company assembled parts and pieces for the seventeen bridges, and then trucking companies were used to haul those parts out to the construction site.
Normally I am against pork barrel spending, but in this case when I see how my community benefitted from it... I'm okay with it. I have lots of friends who have jobs today because of this project. Jobs are scared, and this massive projected helped out companies around the country. This is exactly what the stimulus was supposed to do.
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Originally Posted by Yngwie
As for "You didn't build your business" comments.. That has to be one of the most retarded things that I have ever heard.
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But one person does not make a business. Minte didn't train himself without having teachers, and I'm most positive he had bank loans to get started and then to expand. He didn't do it on his own - he had plenty of help.
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Originally Posted by Yngwie
So all this "fuck the rich" crap is idiotic in my opinion. Without all those rich people all working people would not have a job to begin with. If you think you're better then go do something on your own and make the millions you think you will make, but when you fail don't go crying to whoever about how unfair shit is or how high taxes were or whatever the fuck else.
As I said, I'm not rich/wealthy, (more like poor lol)but I don't bash on the rich just because my life is crap compared to theirs. Who's to say that just because they are rich their life is so great? They possibly have much more stress to deal with then you so just live your life as best as you can and stop bashing everyone else that makes more then you.
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Your right. Let's raise your taxes. I'm too busy to be bothered with it. My company car needs to go back into the shop to have a new bumper put on. I'm sure I can write that off too.