Cops took more stuff from people than burglars did last year
- Thread starter Tinark
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Then you've no problem with wealth redistribution via taxes under the similar rubric: "They didn't need it that much Tim."?
It already exists! No sense getting worked up when one is powerless to effect change. I am being taxed out of my home so that ever more benefits may be made available to those who pay no taxes.
That is not wealth redistribution. That is theft!
And since resources are finite, soon, those of us who pay taxes will be bled dry. Then what?
Quetzal
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Like who?
Probably you. Is this government stealing a surprise to you liberals?
PureX
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Well, if you would make your government tax the wealthy, as it should be doing, it wouldn't be taxing you out of your home. But for some insane reason, you keep voting for politicians who protect the wealthy, at your expense, and so the wealthy pay fewer taxes than your do even though they have a lot more money. While you keep whining about the poor, who can't pay taxes regardless because they have no money. Your anger is wildly misplaced, but you just WILL NOT GIVE IT UP for anything. So the wealthy continue to skate on their taxes, while the poor continue to have no money, regardless, and there you are in the middle paying the freight for everything. And it's your own damn fault, because you just keep on voting for the people who are doing it to you.
Do you believe seizure and forfiture laws to be just, a necessary function of the local, state and federal police agencies?
I do not know if they are just? Necessary?
It is claimed that the "greater good" is being served.
If we live in community we must expect some personal discomfort.
But in America, we are hag-ridden with laws and rubrics attached to laws.
You don't know how I vote. Nothing changes no matter the side of the aisle in control. Once a person is elected to congress they proceed to become millionaires without a conscience and amnesia sets in.
The last politician I trusted was Paul Wellstone. Now I somewhat trust Amy Klobuchar.
PureX
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I understand. And I wasn't referring to any particular side of the isle, necessarily. Though we both know (or should know) that the republican party serves the rich, exclusively. Their one and only party prerogative seems to be to NEVER tax the rich. They even sign promises to that effect.
shagster01
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refugees?
PureX
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This isn't telling us much without some sort of break-down on what and why these assets have been seized.
It's one thing to take assets from people who acquired them by illegal means, and it's another to take them from people for non-payment of fines and taxes, etc.,.
Generally they only take assets that were acquired illegally
brewmama
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Why do you perpetuate lies like this, when the top earners pay far more than everyone else?
The top one percent of income earners, who paid 38 percent of federal income taxes, faced an effective tax rate of 23 percent. This was nearly seven times higher than the effective rate of 3 percent paid by the bottom half of income earners. The bottom half of income earners paid only 3 percent of federal income taxes and earned 11 percent of total adjusted gross income.
Do the rich really not pay their fair share?
"As the graphic below shows, the top half of income earners paid 97 percent of all federal income taxes in 2012."
Is it because you are just ideologically ignorant, or do you just lie outright knowingly?
Why do you perpetuate lies like this, when the top earners pay far more than everyone else?
The top one percent of income earners, who paid 38 percent of federal income taxes, faced an effective tax rate of 23 percent. This was nearly seven times higher than the effective rate of 3 percent paid by the bottom half of income earners. The bottom half of income earners paid only 3 percent of federal income taxes and earned 11 percent of total adjusted gross income.
Do the rich really not pay their fair share?
"As the graphic below shows, the top half of income earners paid 97 percent of all federal income taxes in 2012."
Is it because you are just ideologically ignorant, or do you just lie outright knowingly?
It is seemingly impossible to break through a victim mentality which is coupled with an entitlement belief.
Why do you perpetuate lies like this, when the top earners pay far more than everyone else?
The top one percent of income earners, who paid 38 percent of federal income taxes, faced an effective tax rate of 23 percent. This was nearly seven times higher than the effective rate of 3 percent paid by the bottom half of income earners. The bottom half of income earners paid only 3 percent of federal income taxes and earned 11 percent of total adjusted gross income.
Do the rich really not pay their fair share?
"As the graphic below shows, the top half of income earners paid 97 percent of all federal income taxes in 2012."
Is it because you are just ideologically ignorant, or do you just lie outright knowingly?
So that shows that the wealthy pay the taxes. The poor only amounts to 2.8 percent. So why tax the poor at all, that 2.8 could be added to the top 50 % and it wouldn't hurt them a bit. Just 2.8 spread across the top 50 percent and the poor wouldn't be so poor. No income tax for the poor, now there's an idea I can get behind.
Why do you perpetuate lies like this, when the top earners pay far more than everyone else?
The top one percent of income earners, who paid 38 percent of federal income taxes, faced an effective tax rate of 23 percent. This was nearly seven times higher than the effective rate of 3 percent paid by the bottom half of income earners. The bottom half of income earners paid only 3 percent of federal income taxes and earned 11 percent of total adjusted gross income.
Do the rich really not pay their fair share?
"As the graphic below shows, the top half of income earners paid 97 percent of all federal income taxes in 2012."
Is it because you are just ideologically ignorant, or do you just lie outright knowingly?
purex is the problem
and
there are too many like him
