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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 1788483" data-attributes="member: 1132">To the bolded part, who says you can&#039;t tax the poor? Seriously? If you don&#039;t get taxed anything, then what stake do you have in the investment of the country? If all you do is get free stuff, where&#039;s the incentive to dig yourself out? Where is self-worth reinforced if you&#039;re just a drag on society? I&#039;m not necessarily talking about taking 10%, but you should always pay something. Even a pittance is better than nothing. If 47% were paying something, we wouldn&#039;t be in the mess we&#039;re in. I&#039;m sorry, but if you pay nothing, then you shouldn&#039;t be entitled to anything in return. If you make no money at all, you should expect to live of the largesse of the charitable. Not the forced charity of the government. The government isn&#039;t Robin Hood and should stop pretending they are. As for corporate taxes, you&#039;re essentially reinforcing that we should significantly decrease the corporate tax rate so that global companies will shift their profits and by extension, their tax burdens back to the United States. Wouldn&#039;t it be better to have GE paying half of the current tax rate than getting paid 2.3 billion? Having global companies shift their burdens offshore and not allowing small national businesses an opportunity to do the same is an unlevel playing field. This isn&#039;t even fuzzy logic, it&#039;s concrete! <img src="/images/smilies/frown.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 1788483, member: 1132"] To the bolded part, who says you can't tax the poor? Seriously? If you don't get taxed anything, then what stake do you have in the investment of the country? If all you do is get free stuff, where's the incentive to dig yourself out? Where is self-worth reinforced if you're just a drag on society? I'm not necessarily talking about taking 10%, but you should always pay something. Even a pittance is better than nothing. If 47% were paying something, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. I'm sorry, but if you pay nothing, then you shouldn't be entitled to anything in return. If you make no money at all, you should expect to live of the largesse of the charitable. Not the forced charity of the government. The government isn't Robin Hood and should stop pretending they are. As for corporate taxes, you're essentially reinforcing that we should significantly decrease the corporate tax rate so that global companies will shift their profits and by extension, their tax burdens back to the United States. Wouldn't it be better to have GE paying half of the current tax rate than getting paid 2.3 billion? Having global companies shift their burdens offshore and not allowing small national businesses an opportunity to do the same is an unlevel playing field. This isn't even fuzzy logic, it's concrete! :( [/QUOTE]

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