Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I believe that our national debt represents a security issue as well as a financial issue. I am not a learned individual but let us solicit the best of minds behind the solutions - maybe a citizen driven issue in that the legislators will just kick the can down the road.
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If poor people paid a small tax do you think that would in any way change the economic calculation of whom they would support? Of course not. So your suggestion that non-tax payers are specially susceptible to having their votes bought lacks support. But I am pleased to see we are in basic agreement that all politicians make economic promises in the hope that voters will see how those promises will benefit their own family. As I watch a large percentage of my neighbors cheating within the letter of the law to have their old roofs replaced while railing against welfare mothers and people who don't pay taxes, I see hypocrisy.
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The budget and deficit has gone up every year or haven't you noticed.
Last edited by Number 10 GI; 04-10-2020 at 07:00 PM. |
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Some are in even worse situations, and not being able to take a "standard deduction" could mean they lose their homes. That might be okay by you, but are you willing to have those newly homeless people sleeping on YOUR front yard? |
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Should they cut health care subsidies? Careful with your answer: millions of people are healthy because they can afford health care, currently. If you say cut them - be prepared to have sick people in your community who can't afford to get well, shopping at the same stores you shop at, sleeping on the benches you sit at when the squares are open, washing themselves in the public restrooms you visit when you're out and have to go, begging on street corners you have to stop at while waiting for traffic to allow you to cross... Or how about we just cut out all public education funding? Let the rich send their kids to school and people who are "anything other than rich" - including middle class, can just home-school, quit their jobs, become poor, and hope to die young so they don't have to endure suffering for the rest of their lives as uneducated plebians/servants/indentured slaves. I know - let's just get rid of military spending. We don't need no stankin Navy, amirite? Except - we do. We could tell Congress and Senate no more salaries - but all their salaries combined, including that of their secretaries, the mail room clerk, and the cafeteria workers - don't even put a dent into the first trillion dollars of the debt. We can call in all the debts owed to us by other countries... but then they will no longer be beholden to us, and the current administration hasn't exactly made friends with the ones who owe us the most so maybe that's a bad idea. So - what exactly do you propose our country cut, that will equal not just the deficit, but create a positive balance? |
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This is regressive taxation. Hits the poor disproportionately.
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Do you not get that you would no longer have to worry about 20% rate on after deductions because there would be no need for deductions. A flat tax makes perfect sense to me and would basically be the new payroll tax. If no one has deductions - and I mean no one - it’s a level playing field. The lesser paid is in the same boat as the mogul. Works well. If you earn less, you pay less. If you earn more, you pay more. Last edited by DianeM; 04-10-2020 at 09:29 PM. |
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Ummm could you explain that one. 10% is 10%. We’d all be level in responsibility. No deductions for ANY ONE. If you make less, you owe less. If you make more, you pay more.
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Being poverty-stricken is not something I'd recommend to anyone. Having to pay taxes for the privilege of being poor is just - nasty. |
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...................and the wealthy do as they have always done to avoid paying their fair share. They ship their money offshore. The average working person always picks up the tab! |
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The national debt has not been paid down since Eisenhower.
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How about deducting the U. S. cost of the Virus from the debt we owe to China, since they started this and didn’t warn anyone until it was too late?
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That's one way of paying down the national debt.
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