Off Topic Barney Frank on spending. “Plenty of rich people we can tax”

[jficquette]

[quote=Username]Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.[/quote]

Thats only because half the people have bought into the lie that we need $4 Trillion a year in government spending including states, cities etc.

The government is the problem.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Omega Point][quote]Uh, dude, ever heard of the Civil War?[/quote]

uhhhhhh, duuude… of course I have heard of the Civil War but what is your point? This war wasn’t about taxes and if you were referring to income taxes, yes there were income taxes but they were only temporary and they did nothing to build the U.S. into the largest economy in the world during that century.

High taxes are most often the causes of revolutions or haven’t you heard of the American and French Revolutions.

Anything I “get” from taxes is mostly outweighed by things that are taken away from me by force. Hardly a bargain.

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Good post.

[jficquette]

[quote=Omega Point][quote]Uh, dude, ever heard of the Civil War?[/quote]

uhhhhhh, duuude… of course I have heard of the Civil War but what is your point? This war wasn’t about taxes and if you were referring to income taxes, yes there were income taxes but they were only temporary and they did nothing to build the U.S. into the largest economy in the world during that century.

High taxes are most often the causes of revolutions or haven’t you heard of the American and French Revolutions.

Anything I “get” from taxes is mostly outweighed by things that are taken away from me by force. Hardly a bargain.

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Good post.

[jficquette]

[quote=Omega Point][quote]Uh, dude, ever heard of the Civil War?[/quote]

uhhhhhh, duuude… of course I have heard of the Civil War but what is your point? This war wasn’t about taxes and if you were referring to income taxes, yes there were income taxes but they were only temporary and they did nothing to build the U.S. into the largest economy in the world during that century.

High taxes are most often the causes of revolutions or haven’t you heard of the American and French Revolutions.

Anything I “get” from taxes is mostly outweighed by things that are taken away from me by force. Hardly a bargain.

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Good post.

[jficquette]

[quote=Omega Point][quote]Uh, dude, ever heard of the Civil War?[/quote]

uhhhhhh, duuude… of course I have heard of the Civil War but what is your point? This war wasn’t about taxes and if you were referring to income taxes, yes there were income taxes but they were only temporary and they did nothing to build the U.S. into the largest economy in the world during that century.

High taxes are most often the causes of revolutions or haven’t you heard of the American and French Revolutions.

Anything I “get” from taxes is mostly outweighed by things that are taken away from me by force. Hardly a bargain.

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Good post.

[jficquette]

[quote=Omega Point][quote]Uh, dude, ever heard of the Civil War?[/quote]

uhhhhhh, duuude… of course I have heard of the Civil War but what is your point? This war wasn’t about taxes and if you were referring to income taxes, yes there were income taxes but they were only temporary and they did nothing to build the U.S. into the largest economy in the world during that century.

High taxes are most often the causes of revolutions or haven’t you heard of the American and French Revolutions.

Anything I “get” from taxes is mostly outweighed by things that are taken away from me by force. Hardly a bargain.

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Good post.

[yojimbo]

BY GARY WISBY STAFF REPORTER

When 17-year-old Steve Terrett was found shot to death and shoeless in a South Side alley last week, his mother feared he was killed for his new $110 Nike Air Jordan shoes.

Sunday it turned out she was right, Chicago Police said.

[yojimbo]

BY GARY WISBY STAFF REPORTER

When 17-year-old Steve Terrett was found shot to death and shoeless in a South Side alley last week, his mother feared he was killed for his new $110 Nike Air Jordan shoes.

Sunday it turned out she was right, Chicago Police said.

[yojimbo]

BY GARY WISBY STAFF REPORTER

When 17-year-old Steve Terrett was found shot to death and shoeless in a South Side alley last week, his mother feared he was killed for his new $110 Nike Air Jordan shoes.

Sunday it turned out she was right, Chicago Police said.

[yojimbo]

BY GARY WISBY STAFF REPORTER

When 17-year-old Steve Terrett was found shot to death and shoeless in a South Side alley last week, his mother feared he was killed for his new $110 Nike Air Jordan shoes.

Sunday it turned out she was right, Chicago Police said.

[yojimbo]

BY GARY WISBY STAFF REPORTER

When 17-year-old Steve Terrett was found shot to death and shoeless in a South Side alley last week, his mother feared he was killed for his new $110 Nike Air Jordan shoes.

Sunday it turned out she was right, Chicago Police said.

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[quote=Omega Point]

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Ok, so hypothetically speaking, if people were allowed to borrow money they had no hope of ever paying back, it might cause instability?

Phew! Coast is clear.

[kewp]

[quote=Omega Point]

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Ok, so hypothetically speaking, if people were allowed to borrow money they had no hope of ever paying back, it might cause instability?

Phew! Coast is clear.

[kewp]

[quote=Omega Point]

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Ok, so hypothetically speaking, if people were allowed to borrow money they had no hope of ever paying back, it might cause instability?

Phew! Coast is clear.

[kewp]

[quote=Omega Point]

A stable society is ensured by the morals of the people. If people believe they can legally steal from others, you’ll soon not have a functioning society.[/quote]

Ok, so hypothetically speaking, if people were allowed to borrow money they had no hope of ever paying back, it might cause instability?

Phew! Coast is clear.

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