[Vision2020] CNN Breaking News

[Donovan Arnold]

Jay,
The fundamental problem with the flat tax theory is that it assumes everyone benefits equally from the government. The vast majority of tax dollars go to benefiting the wealthiest of Americans, not the average US citizen. Further, if the bottom 25% of households had to pay a tax equal in percentage as the wealthiest 5% in order to balance the budget they would have to resort to crime to survive because of the poor wages, limited hours, and no benefits or health care they get from employers who have all the wealth.
 How about instead, the people with 90% of the resources pay 90% of the taxes, wouldn't that be fair too, Jay?
 
Donovan Arnold 
 
 

From: Jay Borden <jborden at datawedge.com>
To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; lfalen at turbonet.com; thansen at moscow.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] CNN Breaking News

There are a variety of reasons persons flocked to the New World... The Georgia colony, for example, was established as a refuge for those sentenced to debtor's prison, and as a colony where the 'poor and destitute' could find a new start.  (The British aristocracy felt that getting rid of these folks would relieve their burden from the crown).

If we're talking about every person paying their fair share, then I'm all for an across the board flat tax.... Poor, middle class, and wealthy alike.  That's what FAIR means.

Jay

Sent from my Android phone... So ignore the typpos

Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Actually Roger, this country was built on slave labor and the abundance of natural resources the native peoples kept well preserved and protected for thousands of years.

Taxing wealthier people who use and benefit most from the government is not stealing from them. It is making them pay their fair share.

Donovan Arnold
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