C'mon Daniel, are you serious? Lift everyone and eliminate all levels of inequality?? That's called collectivism/socialism and it doesn't raise anyone up. It brings all the ones at the top down to everyone else's level and breeds a nation of mediocrity and poverty.
Who's responsibility is it to lift everyone up? I think if anyone understands trying to lift everyone up it is NYC. 40,000 people out of 8 million (0.5%) in NYC pay 50% of the taxes! How is THAT fair? Wouldn't you say they're doing their fair share?
There are so many better things we could be doing right now than all of what Congress and the Pres have done with TARP, the spendulus and everything else. Lower capital gains, give a moratorium on income tax for 6 months, hell, give every person in America 5,000 and you'll still be better off than where we are now.
Bottom line, increasing taxes and penalizing the JOB CREATORS will only make it worse. You can't force a decrease in inequality. Plus, if there's no inequality, then who decides who's going to be a janitor and who gets to be a doctor?
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Who's responsibility is it to lift everyone up? I think if anyone understands trying to lift everyone up it is NYC. 40,000 people out of 8 million (0.5%) in NYC pay 50% of the taxes! How is THAT fair? Wouldn't you say they're doing their fair share?
There are so many better things we could be doing right now than all of what Congress and the Pres have done with TARP, the spendulus and everything else. Lower capital gains, give a moratorium on income tax for 6 months, hell, give every person in America 5,000 and you'll still be better off than where we are now.
Bottom line, increasing taxes and penalizing the JOB CREATORS will only make it worse. You can't force a decrease in inequality. Plus, if there's no inequality, then who decides who's going to be a janitor and who gets to be a doctor?