The Flat Tax - Page 6

Dead · #51 03-10-2005, 04:03 PM

As opposed to George "raging alcoholic" Bush, and Bill "catkiller" Frist. See I can make funny names as well.

My god man do some research before jizzing yourself over a tax idea that has been knocked around for 30 years.

Dead · #52 03-10-2005, 04:03 PM

Maybe if you used decent punctuation and grammar then it wouldn't be so difficult.

jaxmike · #53 03-10-2005, 04:09 PM

If your posts contained logic, common sense, or other redeeming qualities I could say the same. However, the constant crying about "regressive taxes" and the like make you hard to take seriously.

Further, I don't really think my grammar and punctuation have been all that bad considering. My capitalization on the other hand..

jaxmike · #54 03-10-2005, 04:10 PM

Sure man, I have. And just about everything I have ever read has said that our tax system sucks. We should reform it drastically. Flat tax, fair tax, doesn't matter, it's got to be better than our BS system in place now.

thatpfunk · #55 03-10-2005, 05:20 PM

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Further, I don't really think my grammar and punctuation have been all that bad considering. My capitalization on the other hand..

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...says the man with incorrect punctuation [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

AngryCola · #56 03-10-2005, 05:22 PM

I'm not even close to a republican, but am completely behind the flat tax.

jaxmike · #57 03-10-2005, 05:25 PM

Thank God someone got it.

BadBoyBenny · #58 03-10-2005, 09:06 PM

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All you would fill out is a postcard sized form… no deductions

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No deductions, seriously? What about business expenses. So, would a professional poker player need to count all of his/her winning expenses as income and not be able to deduct the losses?

mmcd · #59 03-11-2005, 03:26 AM

What of the fact that the wealthy preimarily derive their "income" from capital gains rather than salary. It would not at all suprise me if the middle>upper-middle class (say 100-500k in income) bear the great majority of the tax burden in this country. It's not like the people making 10 million/year are paying 3.6 or whatever in income tax.

Kenrick · #60 03-12-2005, 08:05 PM

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You're a fool if you think the middle class pays the majority of the taxes.

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The top 50% of taxpayers pay 96.03% of all income taxes in the United States.

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This statement does not correlate with saying the middle-class pays the most taxes. That 50% number is including the top 1%, the top 5%, and the top 10%. Please show your data for what percentage of taxes those percentiles pay.