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Re: ENOUGH! I don't care what anyone pays in taxes, as long as they pay their share. If you can't live on 70% of your income, you might need more income. | |
elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | said by ArrayList:I don't care what anyone pays in taxes, as long as they pay their share. If you can't live on 70% of your income, you might need more income.
If you say you want everyone to pay "their share", then indeed, you do care.
I'd like to see everyone's "share" reduced substantially, in accordance with a downsizing of government at all levels, so the taxpayers, with more of their money in their wallet, can choose how best to spend it.
I'd love to have 70% of my income after taxes.
"More income" won't achieve that. | | |
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1 edit | If you can't live on 70% of $60k/year, which is $42k, you should try to get a job where you make more money. Frankly, if you can't live on $42k/year, you really don't know how to manage money.
if you want to live in modern society, you have to pay taxes. | |
elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
1 edit | said by ArrayList:If you can't live on 70% of $60k/year, which is $42k, you should try to get a job where you make more money. Frankly, if you can't live on $42k/year, you really don't know how to manage money.
if you want to live in modern society, you have to pay taxes.
Some taxes are necessary. Not anywhere near as much as is taken from us.
You stated that "If you can't live on 70% of your income, you might need more income". You apparently aren't very familiar with the tax system, or you'd know that's mathematically impossible, since the government takes, at the very least, 41.5% of every additional dollar we earn, before they tax you again and again on the same money.
When I was in the tax-compliance business many moons ago, there were only 5500 different types of taxes to pay. Today, there are over 10,000, and most of them are bigger bites than yesteryear, with many set to go to even higher heights quite soon.
If you want your "modern society" to be sustained, not go the way of Greece (and soon France), you're going to have accept that there is a limit to how much tax you can collect from the productive class before they fold their tent and your job goes away.
Apart from a basic military and the criminal courts system, virtually nothing that the government owns/operates/runs couldn't be done better via private contractors at a much lower cost, with massive benefits for the citizenry.
Do you really believe that your government manages money better than you? | |
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| you know how you don't pay those taxes, don't spend money. it's pretty simple.
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Apart from a basic military and the criminal courts system, virtually nothing that the government owns/operates/runs couldn't be done better via private contractors at a much lower cost, with massive benefits for the citizenry.
please, oh please, provide a few examples of this. | |
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Billings, MT | reply to elray
said by elray:Apart from a basic military and the criminal courts system, virtually nothing that the government owns/operates/runs couldn't be done better via private contractors at a much lower cost, with massive benefits for the citizenry. Ya. I'm going to trust a private contractor with classified data.
Me, being a Radioman (Information Systems Technician), would start questioning the government and the higher ups if they even thought this was a good idea. All I can see is a massive security hole and a nightmare following. There's a reason our data should never be on a civilian "cloud".
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