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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Excellent rebuttal to political pandering by the wealthy.
This is the age old dispute/battle/confrontation between individualism or collectivism.
Like do you want the cost of golf cart paths maintained from
1) a toll source?
2) spread amongst everyone for the lowest cost per resident?
3) pay a local tax on gasoline?
4) pay a registration fee per year on every golf cart?
5) flat tax versus graduated proportion?
How did the US get out of the depression? by taxing the rich a very high level, because that was the only source of money, with centralized distribution. .
but the rich weren't in dire straits and needing food and shelter.
Financially, its a source and allocation problem,
where the most expensive method is individual usage, and the easiest is a small amount per person, so anyone can use it without constraints. .
pick your poison, but trying to disrupt lots of everyday conveniences and stability leads to alot of chaos and opportunity to be exploited. .
each contributes to their proportion of the maintenance according to their means.
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So, means testing for Social Security? For health insurance? At the gas pump? The grocery store? Buying a house, even if it's the same crappy government owned house? So, you are saying tax the rich, tax the corporations, Tax the people that made good life choices? Tax the people that worked lots of overtime, scrimped and saved for their house, drove an old car, and made do so they could retire comfortably? Tax the people that risked their life savings, their home, and everything else to start and run a business? Tax those that may have worked for years building their business for little or no pay? Tax those evil corporations that provide jobs to the rest of us? That invest in new technology to make a better product? Tax them for what? How much? Give it to who? That really sounds like socialism to me.