Originally Posted by Guest

The entire liberal platform is: confiscate from the successful, and give to anyone that's NOT successful. Let's have 25 separate and duplicating programs for the food/housing/energy/job/emotional/child whatever help-you programs. If you don't feel like working for the next 40 years, no problem, rely on your neighbors! You obviously know nothing of what most liberals desire. Liberals, in general, want fairness and a fair shot for everyone willing to work for it to achieve the American Dream. They favor programs such as head start, tuition grants, and job training, all of which offer low income people the ability to better themselves. Food stamps, ADA, unemployment benefits, ETC. are meant as a safety net for those attempting to get back on their feet. Are there abuses - unquestionably, but there are also abuses of corporate policy, Medicare fraud, market manipulation, farm subsidies, etc. Liberals tend to believe that giving people opportunities will pay dividends economically ultimately.

When the nation first began, we had NONE of these programs and somehow the nation survived. Hmmm… churches, civic organizations... A true conservative - let's return to the good old days of the eighteenth century. Yup, slavery, life expectancy less than forty, low class people living like animals, children starving, women commonly dying in childbirth - sounds like nirvana!
I would rather starve to DEATH than force my neighbors to pay my way. That's the exact OPPOSITE of liberalism. You know, the whole, "It takes a village to raise a child thing." How about we all take care of our own business? This is pure bull$&^+, no one would choose starvation over help from their neighbors. This is dillusional rhetoric from someone who, like me, has been blessed to never require help.

As far as taxes: why not levy a tax on all citizens? No income tax, just a fair and equal citizen tax on every living being in the country. We all pay the same, regardless of means for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. What happens if you can't afford to pay the citizen tax? Well, the same as if you can't afford your current tax bill: PRISON! great idea! Bill gates and Warren Buffet pay exactly the same amount as an unemployed disabled veteran! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? Plus the massive job creation effort to build and staff all those new debtors prisons. BTW, where would the money for those new civic buildings come from?
Why penalize those that have worked harder to become more educated or more skilled? For the good of society, a socialists wet dream, we should tax the lower educated, the lower skilled, thus the laziest and least productive in society at the HIGHEST rate, not the lowest. This would incentivize their achievement. This would benefit the collective the most. This has to be young-in-cheek.

Similarly, when a sales tax is proposed, I think there should be a tiered sales tax. Those who purchase the MOST, pay the LEAST, as a percentage….as a means to incentivize greater spending and thus greater economic activity.

How could anyone possibly argue with these proposals that would MOST BENEFIT the collective?