Make less pay less… make more pay more!

“KISS” Keep It Simple Stupid….

The object of tax is not to help create more comfort for those less fortunate nor decide if someone should pay more because they have more. Equal rights should be looked at in this case as well!

The only politician I’d believe is one that does it out of the goodness of his/her heart to help make our country a better place. Not career politicians that manage to talk a great game, yet fail to follow through while collecting a “comfortable” salary!

Transferring the wealth of the average American that rested in homes and pension funds to big banks and Wall Street has enriched the wealthiest and put those who have lost their homes and jobs and are at the mercy of the government.

Congress is being paid for doing nothing and being paid well! Get the money out of elections; stop the revolving door from Congress to K Street; stop the profiteering of the five major media corporations whose bottom line depends on keeping the nation at odds rather than solving critical problems.

As a start, prosecute the CEOs of the big banks who if they were average Americans would be sitting in a prison today.

Then get the companies pushing their pills and the attorneys advertising bad drugs off the air!
Neither benefit the country as a whole and both encourage higher medical costs. Then bring back ethics to the medical field. Paying doctors to write 25 prescriptions monthly for senior citizens who are sicker from the meds prescribed than when they visited the doctor for the first time might explain the high cost of medicine. If hospitals cannot determine a common cold is not an emergency room matter and turn patients who simply don’t want to wait in line in the doctor’s office away, they don’t deserve to stay in business.

We also, as a nation, need to discuss what is a reasonable portion of one’s earnings to pay for federal gov’t services. We talk about tax “increases” and “cuts” but these are all relative to a current number that has fluctuated greatly over the past decade and increased dramatically in the century or so since its inception.

Since I’m more of a fan of your TMQ writing, here is the football analogy: “And that’s assuming cutting off Tom Brady’s arm to give it to Tavaris Jackson would not dampen the Patriots offense.”

The problem with the defecit is not undertaxation of the wealthy. The defecit can be reduced as the economy as a whole grows. The economy grows when producers/capitalists invest, not when their money is forcibly extracted and given to an inefficient federal bureaucracy to squander.

There is a limit on FICA taxes for Social Security because there is also a limit on the benefits that you receive. The program was not setup to be a welfare program, but instead a social insurance program. In theory you are supposed to get out of it what you put in. Though in practice there is no money saved for anyone. The only way that they can pay out benefits next month is to tax people.

Also while everyone pays FICA taxes in theory those with low incomes get money back on their income taxes to pay for it. The net income tax for the bottom 20% is -6.8%. Please check out the links in my above post to the effective tax rates that people pay. The top 5% pay a rate that is over twice as high as those in the middle.