[quote=paramount][quote=permabear][quote=paramount]There are two (2) types of workers in California:
1. Gov’t Workers = Tax Takers
2. Private Sector Workers = Tax Payers
Source: John and Ken[/quote]
What about the fact that public workers pay taxes?[/quote]
I’ll try and make this really easy:
Government workers don’t really pay taxes, all they do is return a portion of the taxpayer dollars originally generated in the private sector.
Private Sector = Makers
Public Sector = Takers
“Remember, people who work for the Government don’t pay taxes, the people in the private sector pay their taxes for them, because every dollar in the Government Worker’s paycheck, came from a Private Sector Taxpayer. The next time you hear a Government Worker say “I pay my Taxes too”, tell them, “No you don’t, I do, because every dollar you have came from me.”[/quote]
And every dollar YOU make was made possible by the fact that you live in a country with a social, physical, military, and legal infrastructure that is paid for by the govt/taxpayers.
Again, where is this “Libertarian Utopia” you seem to worship? If a low/no tax country is so wonderful and successful — with a thriving middle class — why aren’t there any actual examples of such a system? Why is it that countries with no/low taxes and a weak government consisting of underpaid public workers always ends up looking like Somalia or Mexico?
Where is the PROOF that your system would work better?
