Originally posted by Silat
More Republican mantra from a repfanboi.
But giving the money to those in need seems better than giving tax breaks to the 1% uppercrust and the corporations.
Google yourself some facts on the handful of American corps making 10's of billions during the war................ If Moms give their children for the phoney war then the damn corps can suffer less profits...........
First of all I'm neither Republican nor Democrat.
inferring I am either is highly insulting. LMAO
I wouldn't lower myself to being either
though I am technically registered as a Democrat
that is only because that's where my finger stopped when I went eanie meanie miney mo when it came time to choose how I would register.
Some views on some issues I share with the right. Some views I share with the left. And some I share with neither.
Unless 7% somehow became smaller then 3%
the top 1% didn't get the bulk of the tax breaks.
Not to mention the amount of people that were taken off the tax rolls altogether.
I agree those in the lower classes need more help
. But they need help in learning to help themselves rather then have money just thrown at them
I don't think anyone should be "given" anything
When you start giving things away consistently
The receivers have less of a inclination to do any better.
Why should they if they can get something for nothing?
What I would be for is helping he poor help themselves. Either by giving them work in exchange for money (such as all those low paying jobs that the illegal's are scooping up) Or in training them do to something.
During the Carter administration if he did nothing else right he had training programs for pay. whereas you went and learned how to do something and got paid for it.
In my area it was called a CETA program. I was once in one. Actually I ended up being in a couple of different programs of the same type. And that provided the basis of enabling me to get where I am today.
Standing on my own two feet and pulling my own weight like everyone should
These were good programs. They didn't just GIVE anything. You had to show up and actually work for it. You Earned it.
This is far better then just sending someone out a welfare check and food stamps every month
Problem when you start GIVING to the poor is they get lazy. and irresponsible and they start believing that its somehow owed to them. I know. I've lived among them. I've seen it first hand.
But. they still want and often get everything those better off then them can have through hard work.
Go to just abut any poor neighborhood and you will see a bunch of BMWs these days.
Hmmmm can afford to drive a BMW or a Lincoln SUV and have a cell phone . and you can bet the farm ost of them have the latest greatest gaming system and $100 shoes
But they need a handout from the government
Seems we had alot more people succeeding in this country BEFORE the government started handing out money then after.
Probably because they had no other choice then to bust their butts and earn a living.
I know for my grandparents and great grandparents there were no government programs for then when they arrived here.
They had two choices. Work and eek out a living for themselves doing whatever kind of work they could find. Or Starve.
Starvation is a great motivator.
I can understand the desire to help. And it is a very noble thought.
But the way the left wants to help is doing more to hurt, then help.
The top income earners already pay by far the very vast majority and disproportionate amount of the taxes.
According to the IRS. in released data for 2003
They show that the top 25% percent of taxpayers, ranked by adjusted gross income, paid 83.9 percent of all federal income taxes that year.
That's paid taxes. After deductions.
Somehow I think the rest of us should be able to carry the load for the other 16.1%
What I am for is simplifying the tax code to 6 simple words. "Everyone pays 25% of their income"
Doesn't matter if you make 1 dollar or 100 billion dollars. You pay 25%
No tax brackets, no writeoffs. The only deduction you would be allowed is by how much you give to charity. That would be taken off your gross income
Then Everyone pulls their own weight equally
And I do not see how taxing them any more will help.
Here is what happens.
the amount the rich have to pay goes up.
Well they aren't going to just eat that cost. They are going to pass it on.
that's what I do. and I'm nowhere near rich. Just fortunate enough to be in a position to charge more for my services as my costs go up for whatever reason.
The rich own and run the companies. As well they should they are after all rich enough to buy or own them and I've never heard of a pauper owning a billion dollar corporation.
They in turn raise the prices on the goods and services they sell to make up for the lost revenue. Which in turn the little guy buys and now increased prices.
In the end the little guy now has more money to buy goods. And it looks good on paper because on paper he has more money.
The problem is he cant buy any more with it then he could before.
So..How has that "Helped" him?
It helps the people who sponcer such nonsense because on paper it looks great. They can all pat themselves on the back and say "Look what we have done for the little guy! He now has more money for his pocket then he did before." And everyone cheers and applauds and says Yayy!"
On paper this is true.
But in reality he is no better off then he was before.
As for the soldiers. The mothers didn't Give them. They volunteered.
They weren't picked and dragged into joining. They chose to do so.
And when you choose to join. You join for better or worse. You go and fight wherever your told for whatever reason your told.
I have the greatest respect for anyone who has joined the military and anyone in the military. It is among our most noble vocations.
But I do not feel a whole lot of sympathy for those who would complain about where they are sent or why or what they are told to do.
They knew the score when they signed the dotted line.
Now. Yes Corporations do make money during the war and from the war.
they always have and always will.
Now if you had said those companies should do more for the Vets of war. I would agree
But
That does NOT mean the poor are entitled to a share of those profits.
The poor aren't entitled to anything more then they are willing to work for.
nor should they be.
I cannot understand how so many fail to see this concept.
If you go into the wild they always tell you "Don't feed the wildlife"
Why? Because eventually the wildlife will do nothing more then keep looking for the easy handout and will loose their survival skills
This is the same concept. By giving out handouts your not helping those that need it, your hurting them.
because eventually they start feeling entitled to the handout.
As opposed to doing for themselves
