You are missing the point, on purpose I suspect. The point is I never said they don't pay taxes. I also said you should look at the tax laws from the mid 20th century as an example of how high taxes on the wealthy make a stronger middle class.
Wrong in my case at least. I just happen to understand the effects of how taxation controls economies better than you do.
Social "justice" has no place in government. Period. DOGE is highlighting wasteful spending. How can we still be making monthly payments on a short term contract that expired 10 years ago? This is sloppy bookkeeping. How can we not tie a check we write to the specific bill it is paying? This is a conscious and deliberate attempt to interfere with Congress' oversight ability. It is NOT common accounting practice. Ask any small business which actually has to balance its books.
How many government workers and members of Congress are shaking in their boots over the high-net-worth comments the DOGE people mentioned? They are retiring in droves in the hopes of warding off an investigation into their ill-gotten gains.
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No YOU are missing the point. If you keep increasing the taxes on the rich, they will move. Texas and Florida do not have a state income tax. California and New York have the highest. People and businesses have been leaving California and NY in large numbers. People and businesses with means can and will move out of the country. Trump and Musk saved a lot of money in state income taxes by moving. The TCJA of 2018 limited the state and local taxes itemized deduction. People are moving to the lower taxed states in record numbers. That means that people who are lower income, most of them receiving thousands of dollars of below the line credits, are left and these states have serious financial issues.
Look at the bright side. They'll be taking all their democrat workers with them to turn the states purple and blue.
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That's a trick question, if you ever answer a single real question I ask, then maybe I will answer your trick ones.
Oh Doc is much more arrogant than I am. He tries to be clever by masking his insults. That's why he doesn't get upset by it.
You put the cart before the horse.
You don't refute them. Take the last round. You went off on a tangent about me not understanding the whole Maslow thing. When my point was that when the richest 0.1% had a 92% tax rate we had the largest, most powerful middle class in the world. since the ultra rich bought congress, brainwashed at least half the country, took their money overseas, and learned how to use stock ownership as nontaxable wealth, the middle class has taken a pretty rough hit.
