The Horror! :shocked: somebody actually made money and it was not redistributed to the masses. More power to them, they spend it more wisely than the federal government anyway, just means some freeloader won't get their free stuff. Breaks my heart...Not!
"Made money" by sitting on his duff while the rest of us work hard physically and mentally and are taxed at a higher rate. How is that fair?
Labor should not be taxed higher than capital. That's simply wrong. It's the underlying cause of redistribution of wealth, redistribution upward.
I'm not talking about any "freeloaders", there are relatively few of those. (No the 47% are not freeloaders)
Alate, how much did you give to charity? My guess is given as much to charity as you have given to the TOL-A-Thon even though you use TOL as your soundboard you're too cheap to donate or even buy a subscription, yet you bag on a man that gives 45% of his income in taxes and charitable donations.
It has nothing to do with cheapness. I refuse to give my hard earned money to a site that promotes misinformation as truth and allows the stupidest people on the site free reign to attack people personally. The site is a dictatorship, not a democracy as it is privately owned. If I don't like how the dictatorship works, I'm under no obligation to support it.
We give plenty to actual charities, our church and a few other organizations. But arguing over charitable donations are a sideshow meant to distract from tax rates. Government is our shared responsibility.
Paying to charity (especially when that charity is mostly the Mormon church) is not the same as supporting government services that everyone needs, roads, education, police, fire, defense, support for the poor and elderly. The question that is before all Americans in the next election will be what services do we want and how do we want to pay for them?
