In what way is taxing the rich un American if Government spending on war protects their assets?

Question

Beyond anything else, certainly? Seen any spending on alternative fuels worthy of note and not merely pissing in the tank? Infrastructure, supporting the dying middle class-done anything for you lately?

Answer 1

Taxing the rich is un-American because, whether anyone likes it or not, the rich feed the economy, and taxing them more heavily makes them less able to help others in the form of jobs, grants, and other things.People who are prejudiced against the rich because  SOME of them don't give enough of their riches away publicly to suit you(God knows a h**l of a lot of people are snowed by Oprah and her "Big Give"; would she have done it if she couldn't have had cameras trained on her?), but rich people have the right to do what they want with their money as long as it isn't illegal. I know I'll get a ton of thumbs down now from jealous jerks who can't see past their own noses, but I guess it's the price you pay for being right.

Answer 2

"Please don't tell me that the stimulus package was anything other than a political handjob."

Well put.  I'll remember and use this.

Answer 3

I despair when I read answers like "the poor are poor by choice"

It shows a total lack of understanding of social and economical facts.

And yes, the "stimulus package" was  a typical placebo measure useful only to keep a sector of society "sweet", especially before elections.

The last 20 years should have made it abundantly clear to everybody that the "trickle down" policy doesn't work. It only accelerated the re-distribution of wealth from the majority to the few. In the US it is leading to a serious deterioration of infrastructure and education, but of course these are things that the rich with their expensive private schools and their helicopters don't really need, especially if the assets they own are not in the US any more.

What really gets me is that there seem to be nearly half, if not more, of US citizens to be in favour of four more years of that policy.

Answer 4

For one thing - how can you have equality if one segment of society is forced to shoulder more than their fair share of the tax burden?

Are you aware that the top 30% of wage-earners pay over 70% of the income taxes?  Is this fair?

We have been making huge investments in alternative energy for the past 30 years.  At this point it is long past time for us to start demanding that either this alternative energy research start producing viable solutions or we should start diverting that money to more productive uses.

Answer 5

What does "American" even mean anymore anyway?  Since Roosevelt, we have speeded downwards along the socialist path.  The rich should be taxed, at the same rate as everyone else.  Most of the poor in our country don't pay any taxes, yet benefit significantly from gov't services.  And mostly, they aren't poor by handicap, they are poor by current choice or choices made previously.

The top 50% of this country pays 99% of the taxes.  Taxing people more because they were successful, or their parents were successful, is wrong.  There is no amount of mind trickery that can overcome that fact.