House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by the House GOP leadership, gestures as he speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, following a closed-door GOP strategy session. From left are, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Boehner, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va.
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I'm sorry Republicans in Congress — you are wrong.
It is not fair that someone making several times the amount of money I do pays less dollar amount in income taxes or may even pay no income taxes.
He or she gets at least as much protection from the government as I do. Make them pay taxes on an equivalent percentage of their income to what I pay.
The economy of the governament will be helped and the business economy with not fail.
Newel Standley
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But, if you tax them at 39% instead of 35%, they will suddenly cease to be wealthy and will lose all motivation, and everyone will lose their jobs, and Atlas Shrugged will become our bitter, rueful reality.
Just like it was in the Clinton More..
Mike Richards,
I'm just curious about something. Where, in your view of a free and perfectly capitalistic America does the worker fit in, who works in an authoritarian business (which includes almost all businesses) and is not allowed More..
Slavery! Oh my heck, Mike Richards, you think a four percent raise in marginal tax rates reduces millionaires to slavery! I'm weeping, I'm laughing so hard.