2011-08-01, 07:55 AM
Devil Wrote:Still it's scandalous that some republicans tried to keep the tax cuts for billionaires out of this, while the future of a nation was at stake...
I mean... comon, it's your nation's future we're talking about here... :f6:
The amount of money that the rich "don't pay" is heavily overstated. Sure, they probably don't pay the same percentage of their total income as a middle class person, but that doesn't change the fact that they are still paying hundreds, perhaps even thousands times more just based on the fact that they have so much more than we do. Money is money, it doesn't suddenly lose value the more you have. You think losing 10-20K a year is bad, now think about losing 100 million a year; the two aren't even comparable.
Just for clarification, I think our Legislative and Executive branch setup is absolutely useless, so I'm not a Republican and I don't support most of the garbage either party spouts out, my viewpoint just happens to minimally coincide with theirs on this single issue.