[quote=mike92104][quote=SK in CV][quote=mike92104]
You mean this one? The one that states my position exactly as I just mentioned?
Why don’t you give up the straw man BS. The point I made is valid and correct.[/quote]
Valid point? I don’t know. Your final point, with the absurd claim that the average person pays over 50% in taxes isn’t valid. You were right about the rates when income taxes were initiated being between 1 and 7%, but rates haven’t steadily increased ever since. They’ve gone up and down. Top rates have been lower during the last 25 years than they were at any time in the 60 years before that. During WWII and immediately after, top rates were over 80%, and still 70% until the 80’s. I think the argument could be made those rates are confiscatory. In comparison, today’s rates arent.
So no, I don’t think your conclusion is based on accurate data, and not particularly compelling.[/quote]
again, Straw Man. You don’t have a valid argument against my point which was the steadily increasing amount of taxes, and the steadily increasing amount of spending going on, so you instead try to invalidate the entire argument because you disagree with some of the data I have provided.
Anyway. I done with your little game.[/quote]
You can be done with it if you wish. But it wasn’t a straw man argument. The only argument I made was disputing the evidence you used to support your argument. I didn’t disagree with evidence. You made false claims, I disputed their accuracy. Do you find fault with any my claims that your evidence is bogus?
And now you’re changing YOUR argument. I didn’t respond to anything you said about spending. Spending has obviously increased. But facts are important. Taxes don’t consume 50% of average income. Rates haven’t tripled. There is plenty of evidence you can cite that is accurate. There’s no need to make exaggerated claims.
