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RE: Almost everyone lost on the budget deal. - 8/4/2011 7:02:14 AM

MusicalBoredom

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I haven't seen "Confiscate the nations wealth" as a proposed solution from anyone.

I don't think the right is really saying that people should starve to death. I don't think the left is saying that the government should take all of the wealth in the country and make sure that all people have exactly the same income. I do think that both parties use these types of statements to accuse the other side of all sorts of ridiculous things. It's what's keeping us from making any real headway.

People with lower incomes tend to fill out a 1040EZ and get a big chunk of what they paid though the year as a refund and at least hope that they don't owe more. People with much higher incomes and business tend to hire accountants or even tax attorneys so that they pay the least tax possible. I believe that a huge majority of the people do everything they can to pay as little as they can. I also believe that the ones that make the most absurd accusations are the ones that will personally benefit in a big way from people believing their garbage.

We need sane and realistic discussions on these things if anything is going to change. We can't cut all of the life line programs simply because some people take advantage of them any more than we can shut down the military because some contractors rip off the government. Fraud is fraud and it should be stopped and or prosecuted. We can cut our expenses but it is a process it's not a light switch. If my household is operating in the negative I can't just say that I'll stop paying my rent or mortgage to fix it. I don't think that a slight increase in taxes for the middle class or even the lower income will break people. I don't think anyone has piles of cash that they want to throw away but maybe $100 a year in more taxes is something that is realistic. I don't want to hear companies justify their BS with saying they will create jobs if they lower their taxes either. Make them put their money where their mouth is, give a tax credit to them for every payroll dollar they collect rather than give them a bunch of tax credits and hope they create jobs.

Do I think our leadership has done a good job? No I don't. I also don't think that they are evil and trying to do something horrible. I think the people that are most responsible for our current economic mess is us though. We are the ones that need so many flat screen TVs in our house that we can only afford to buy the cheap ones overseas. We are the ones that spent every Saturday watching how to flip a house on TV and then going out to do just that even when it created an entirely false economy that eventually crashed. We are the ones that think that cell phones and cars are right of every individual. We are the ones that shifted our focus in our businesses from "how can I best serve my customer" to "how can I make the most profit" as our primary focus. We aren't going to have any real change as long as we want someone else to fix a problem that we ourselves are responsible for. Greed and an eroding sense of ethics are our biggest problems and it is spread though the entire economic strata of this country.

Okay, rant over.

[edited to fix a few sloppy sentences]

< Message edited by MusicalBoredom -- 8/4/2011 7:09:03 AM >

(in reply to Sanity)