McCain”s moral compass

[kicksavedave]

“I know for a fact that an experienced nurse who work 6 days a week vs typical 3 days can make easily in the 130-150k range. ”

Um, sure, if someone is willing and able to work six 12 hour shifts in a week. My wife works three 12’s in the OR. My sister works three 12’s in the ER, and my ex worked three 12’s in ICU. By the end of the third shift they are all exhausted. This isn’t sitting on your butt playing on the computer (like my job). It’s being on your feet hustling for virtually the entire 12 hours.

You try that, for 12 hours a day 6 days a week, see how long you last.

[an]

My wife works 3 12 hours shifts and she’s tired after 3 days too. But my cousin is doing just that, 6 12 hours shifts. He has been doing that for many years now. I couldn’t do it myself, but it doesn’t mean it’s right to punish those who can.

[an]

My wife works 3 12 hours shifts and she’s tired after 3 days too. But my cousin is doing just that, 6 12 hours shifts. He has been doing that for many years now. I couldn’t do it myself, but it doesn’t mean it’s right to punish those who can.

[an]

My wife works 3 12 hours shifts and she’s tired after 3 days too. But my cousin is doing just that, 6 12 hours shifts. He has been doing that for many years now. I couldn’t do it myself, but it doesn’t mean it’s right to punish those who can.

[an]

My wife works 3 12 hours shifts and she’s tired after 3 days too. But my cousin is doing just that, 6 12 hours shifts. He has been doing that for many years now. I couldn’t do it myself, but it doesn’t mean it’s right to punish those who can.

[an]

My wife works 3 12 hours shifts and she’s tired after 3 days too. But my cousin is doing just that, 6 12 hours shifts. He has been doing that for many years now. I couldn’t do it myself, but it doesn’t mean it’s right to punish those who can.

[SDEngineer]

Welcome to a progressive tax system (and one of the lowest of all the first world nations).

What is their reward for working so hard? Well, yes, their marginal tax rates go up – but so do yours and mine. Their reward is that they make more money of course (and probably have increased chances for promotion, etc). Yes, the government takes a slightly larger share of their “new” earnings, but they are still making more than they were before.

Heck, we ALL go through this. You know what? The money still spends even when the government takes a slightly larger share of it, and it’s still worth working for. Does the government take too much? Maybe – there are certainly a LOT of things the current administration is spending money on that I don’t care for (e.g. the war, the enormously bloated military budget, the 400bn per year we throw away as finance charges to the supersized debt, etc). However, I DON’T have a direct say in those, and while I may vote for people who are for reducing the parts of government I don’t care for, I accept that, in our system of government, there are equally those who want to reduce parts I don’t want to see reduced, and that LIKE the war spending, and the bloated military budget, etc, and the fact of the matter is that the budget will always be a compromise.

Given the way the system works, I’d much rather pay for what we owe – and currently, that means we NEED a tax increase. And, frankly, the lower middle class and below can’t afford that tax increase. So, unfair as it is, the tax WILL be paid by those who CAN afford it. Frankly, though Obama is not proposing taxing my particular bracket, I KNOW I can far more easily afford to pick up a slightly larger share of the tax burden than a household making, say, 50-60K/yr. I strongly suspect those making twice what I do can probably afford it even more.

When it comes down to it, we ARE a society. The REASON people can make these extraordinary incomes is BECAUSE of our shared society, which they should realize they have a larger investment in than someone who is poor or lower middle class.

[SDEngineer]

Welcome to a progressive tax system (and one of the lowest of all the first world nations).

What is their reward for working so hard? Well, yes, their marginal tax rates go up – but so do yours and mine. Their reward is that they make more money of course (and probably have increased chances for promotion, etc). Yes, the government takes a slightly larger share of their “new” earnings, but they are still making more than they were before.

Heck, we ALL go through this. You know what? The money still spends even when the government takes a slightly larger share of it, and it’s still worth working for. Does the government take too much? Maybe – there are certainly a LOT of things the current administration is spending money on that I don’t care for (e.g. the war, the enormously bloated military budget, the 400bn per year we throw away as finance charges to the supersized debt, etc). However, I DON’T have a direct say in those, and while I may vote for people who are for reducing the parts of government I don’t care for, I accept that, in our system of government, there are equally those who want to reduce parts I don’t want to see reduced, and that LIKE the war spending, and the bloated military budget, etc, and the fact of the matter is that the budget will always be a compromise.

Given the way the system works, I’d much rather pay for what we owe – and currently, that means we NEED a tax increase. And, frankly, the lower middle class and below can’t afford that tax increase. So, unfair as it is, the tax WILL be paid by those who CAN afford it. Frankly, though Obama is not proposing taxing my particular bracket, I KNOW I can far more easily afford to pick up a slightly larger share of the tax burden than a household making, say, 50-60K/yr. I strongly suspect those making twice what I do can probably afford it even more.

When it comes down to it, we ARE a society. The REASON people can make these extraordinary incomes is BECAUSE of our shared society, which they should realize they have a larger investment in than someone who is poor or lower middle class.

[SDEngineer]

Welcome to a progressive tax system (and one of the lowest of all the first world nations).

What is their reward for working so hard? Well, yes, their marginal tax rates go up – but so do yours and mine. Their reward is that they make more money of course (and probably have increased chances for promotion, etc). Yes, the government takes a slightly larger share of their “new” earnings, but they are still making more than they were before.

Heck, we ALL go through this. You know what? The money still spends even when the government takes a slightly larger share of it, and it’s still worth working for. Does the government take too much? Maybe – there are certainly a LOT of things the current administration is spending money on that I don’t care for (e.g. the war, the enormously bloated military budget, the 400bn per year we throw away as finance charges to the supersized debt, etc). However, I DON’T have a direct say in those, and while I may vote for people who are for reducing the parts of government I don’t care for, I accept that, in our system of government, there are equally those who want to reduce parts I don’t want to see reduced, and that LIKE the war spending, and the bloated military budget, etc, and the fact of the matter is that the budget will always be a compromise.

Given the way the system works, I’d much rather pay for what we owe – and currently, that means we NEED a tax increase. And, frankly, the lower middle class and below can’t afford that tax increase. So, unfair as it is, the tax WILL be paid by those who CAN afford it. Frankly, though Obama is not proposing taxing my particular bracket, I KNOW I can far more easily afford to pick up a slightly larger share of the tax burden than a household making, say, 50-60K/yr. I strongly suspect those making twice what I do can probably afford it even more.

When it comes down to it, we ARE a society. The REASON people can make these extraordinary incomes is BECAUSE of our shared society, which they should realize they have a larger investment in than someone who is poor or lower middle class.

[SDEngineer]

Welcome to a progressive tax system (and one of the lowest of all the first world nations).

What is their reward for working so hard? Well, yes, their marginal tax rates go up – but so do yours and mine. Their reward is that they make more money of course (and probably have increased chances for promotion, etc). Yes, the government takes a slightly larger share of their “new” earnings, but they are still making more than they were before.

Heck, we ALL go through this. You know what? The money still spends even when the government takes a slightly larger share of it, and it’s still worth working for. Does the government take too much? Maybe – there are certainly a LOT of things the current administration is spending money on that I don’t care for (e.g. the war, the enormously bloated military budget, the 400bn per year we throw away as finance charges to the supersized debt, etc). However, I DON’T have a direct say in those, and while I may vote for people who are for reducing the parts of government I don’t care for, I accept that, in our system of government, there are equally those who want to reduce parts I don’t want to see reduced, and that LIKE the war spending, and the bloated military budget, etc, and the fact of the matter is that the budget will always be a compromise.

Given the way the system works, I’d much rather pay for what we owe – and currently, that means we NEED a tax increase. And, frankly, the lower middle class and below can’t afford that tax increase. So, unfair as it is, the tax WILL be paid by those who CAN afford it. Frankly, though Obama is not proposing taxing my particular bracket, I KNOW I can far more easily afford to pick up a slightly larger share of the tax burden than a household making, say, 50-60K/yr. I strongly suspect those making twice what I do can probably afford it even more.

When it comes down to it, we ARE a society. The REASON people can make these extraordinary incomes is BECAUSE of our shared society, which they should realize they have a larger investment in than someone who is poor or lower middle class.

[SDEngineer]

Welcome to a progressive tax system (and one of the lowest of all the first world nations).

What is their reward for working so hard? Well, yes, their marginal tax rates go up – but so do yours and mine. Their reward is that they make more money of course (and probably have increased chances for promotion, etc). Yes, the government takes a slightly larger share of their “new” earnings, but they are still making more than they were before.

Heck, we ALL go through this. You know what? The money still spends even when the government takes a slightly larger share of it, and it’s still worth working for. Does the government take too much? Maybe – there are certainly a LOT of things the current administration is spending money on that I don’t care for (e.g. the war, the enormously bloated military budget, the 400bn per year we throw away as finance charges to the supersized debt, etc). However, I DON’T have a direct say in those, and while I may vote for people who are for reducing the parts of government I don’t care for, I accept that, in our system of government, there are equally those who want to reduce parts I don’t want to see reduced, and that LIKE the war spending, and the bloated military budget, etc, and the fact of the matter is that the budget will always be a compromise.

Given the way the system works, I’d much rather pay for what we owe – and currently, that means we NEED a tax increase. And, frankly, the lower middle class and below can’t afford that tax increase. So, unfair as it is, the tax WILL be paid by those who CAN afford it. Frankly, though Obama is not proposing taxing my particular bracket, I KNOW I can far more easily afford to pick up a slightly larger share of the tax burden than a household making, say, 50-60K/yr. I strongly suspect those making twice what I do can probably afford it even more.

When it comes down to it, we ARE a society. The REASON people can make these extraordinary incomes is BECAUSE of our shared society, which they should realize they have a larger investment in than someone who is poor or lower middle class.

[Anonymous]

SDEingineer, agreed. Hopefully by August, I will be in the highest tax bracket I’ve ever been in. I’ll pay more in taxes. So what? It won’t be the end of the world.

Bottom line, those who make more can afford to pay more that’s why your taxes are more. Just shut up and pay it please. IMO, there is never going to be the hoped for flat tax. I don’t believe in making it easier on people who make most of the money and putting a heavy burden on those who make less money and cannot afford it.

[Anonymous]

SDEingineer, agreed. Hopefully by August, I will be in the highest tax bracket I’ve ever been in. I’ll pay more in taxes. So what? It won’t be the end of the world.

Bottom line, those who make more can afford to pay more that’s why your taxes are more. Just shut up and pay it please. IMO, there is never going to be the hoped for flat tax. I don’t believe in making it easier on people who make most of the money and putting a heavy burden on those who make less money and cannot afford it.

[Anonymous]

SDEingineer, agreed. Hopefully by August, I will be in the highest tax bracket I’ve ever been in. I’ll pay more in taxes. So what? It won’t be the end of the world.

Bottom line, those who make more can afford to pay more that’s why your taxes are more. Just shut up and pay it please. IMO, there is never going to be the hoped for flat tax. I don’t believe in making it easier on people who make most of the money and putting a heavy burden on those who make less money and cannot afford it.

[Anonymous]

SDEingineer, agreed. Hopefully by August, I will be in the highest tax bracket I’ve ever been in. I’ll pay more in taxes. So what? It won’t be the end of the world.

Bottom line, those who make more can afford to pay more that’s why your taxes are more. Just shut up and pay it please. IMO, there is never going to be the hoped for flat tax. I don’t believe in making it easier on people who make most of the money and putting a heavy burden on those who make less money and cannot afford it.

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