Look my fundamental problem is that it becomes arbitrary. Also today, this very day there is very much a large disparity between what the wealthy pay in taxes.
Again, I don’t like the fact that I am not one of them. Believe me I want to be one of them. However don’t you think it is a slippery slope?
I will ask you,
Why limit the concept of sharing wealth to the wealthy? Why not middle class? Why not anyone who makes $X or $Y? Again, I am trying to simply apply logic here and I am not getting logical responses.
PW, why shouldn’t you or I pay more? Where does the line get drawn and why does it get drawn there? Don’t you see this is in itself a form of class warfare.
Look the travesty of all this is a monstrosity of confusion that will be construed as racism. This is sad. I think one of the very best things in this country would be for a black man/women, or hispanic, asian, or whoever to be president. Damn I wish Colin Powell would have run. I don’t care about the color of the skin, or the party they are in. Yes there is no doubt, racism is alive and well in this country and that is a fact. Racism runs hand in hand with ignorance and as much as I oppose the distribution of wealth that Obama will enact, I realize many will not vote for him due to the color of his skin. This is pathetic.
I am even all for some sort of social contract to help poverty. Yet YOU CANNOT SINGLE OUT A CLASS TO SUPPORT IT. Fine if you think there is a moral responsibility to support the impoverished then EVERYBODY should pay it. Me, you, Bill Gates, Bill Cosby, and Breeze… EVERYONE. At least come with an argument that is morally right and logical. It does not compute to penalize those that are successful. If they made the money legally they did it legally. If the tax code if f’d up then fix the tax code. However I cannot find logic in pushing a social contract of sorts on only a single group of people.
