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Originally Posted by JayJamJah
Do you think it's fair that someone who makes ten times as much as you pays nearly half their income in taxes while you probably pay around 28-30%?
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I wouldn't think it fair if it were true. They don't pay half, most business folks are going to live in Deleware, not France. I live in Massachusetts and I'd guess I pay more in taxes than most on here...(states wise of course).
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Originally Posted by WendyCal
One day you might have the opportunity to own a business, and then it would matter. But i do see your point. 
Also, it's the matter of him changing like that ~ the guys making $151K -$249K are now ALL spitting nails, and who could blame them. They were told one thing, to secure their support and votes, and now they're stuck like chuck.
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I might have the oppertunity but you understand that if people making 150k aren't paying the majority of the taxes, guys like me making 30K are, so do you honeslty think that
I'm going to have the money to buy from businesses?
I moved this week and I had to write a check for $1125. I spent exactly $0 from my checking account because I had $20 in there extra. I didn't eat out, I didn't buy clothes, I didn't do anything. Thats what happens when I pay a majority of the taxes. Money needs to circulate and you pro-market clowns forget that Taxes aren't killing businesses, a lack of sales are killing businesses.
You think the stock market crashed because of Taxes? Get serious. You don't even need to be well versed in this stuff, its just logic.
If people don't have money to spend, they don't buy from businesses.
I don't know what else to say. If you can't figure that out, theres no point in my trying to explain it 7 other ways. My point of contention will always be, where do businesses get the money if not from consumers (because consumers are over taxed). If you can answer that, you might get me to budge.