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<div>Thank you for the long, thoughtful post. I'm trying to get some other work done tonight, but thought I should give you at least a brief reply. Given your quote below which makes your perspective fairly clear, even if I were Hemingway, I doubt I will make much headway.</div>
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<div>Moderately successful people to very successful people are already taxed between 36% and 65%. </div>
<div>Fed tax of 25-37%, </div>
<div>SS tax of 6+-13% Depending if you are self employed</div>
<div>State tax of 5-12%</div>
<div>Add disablility, unemployement taxes, etc and you get real quick to 65%</div>
<div>(These are resonably accurate estimates)</div>
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<div>You may think this is not high enough, but most people will quit producing if 2 of every 3 dollars goes to the government. Millionaire taxes in several states have already shown this. You quickly get into diminishing returns and not only do you begin to loose taxes from the rich, but also the people they no longer hire. You can only wring so much blood out of the "Golden Goose" before you kill it. It may pain you to hear this, but most people don't work 10-15 hour days to run a successful business, so they can do their civic duty and give it to the government. People with money don't have to work. </div>
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<div>The only people paying little or no tax are people under about 40K which is probably 90% of the population, and I bet you don't want to tax them at all.</div>
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<div>So that leaves BIG budget cuts...</div>
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<div>Rob</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Saundra Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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