RollinThundr wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 00:24:

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 00:08:

Yes it's all the 1%'s fault, you know, the group of people who already pay over 56% of the taxes in this country, if we could just force them to pay moar it'll all work out.

Seems more than appropriate since they are the ones that have all the influence over the government. Oh yeah, and they have the lion's share of the wealth too. Poor people can't afford lobbyists. Nor can they afford to pay a larger share of their already ridiculously low income. People like Romney go around making bets on a whim with the kind of money that a lot of people make in a year. He makes more in a day than half the country makes in a year! He has the kind of direct influence on government that only the super wealthy can get. Of course he should pay more taxes!

The middle class has seen nothing but stagnant wages or worse, along with a lack of jobs, while the top 1% has been making big bucks even as they screw the rest of the country over. It's not socialism by any stretch of the imagination. It's just common sense. You can't get blood from a stone, and the wealthiest people have been funneling more and more of the nation's wealth to themselves over the past few decades. They always talk about growing the pie for everyone, but that hasn't been happening. The pie gets bigger, but only their share.

It would seem more appropriate to cut the out of control tax and spend scheme that's so rampant in this country no? And stop having government meddle with the economy with failed stimulus after stimulus? Bush's failed, Obama's failed, the Great Depression would have been shorter had government not meddled and let the market correct itself during dips.

There is a need for regulations, I don't think anyone argues that, checks and balances are there for a reason, but there IS a middle ground that could be obtained.

Sure you can tax the rich more, the problem is the government is just going to spend even more money that way, so it makes it a pretty moot idea. Because you're right back at square one. We spend too much on a government level and it has become far too bloated. (The department of education being a prime example, the further you separate government from the citizens the more expensive it gets and the less sensitive it is to the needs of the community, school systems would be better off just at the local & state level)

The problem with you liberals is you don't separate huge company CEO's from small business owners, when you increase taxes those large companies don't blink, it's the small local businesses, the ones that create most of the local jobs that end up going under because they can't stay afloat.

Again the rich already pay more than anyone else, we have a progressive tax system in the US. Taxing them more won't do a damn thing. It's just class warfare to distract from the actual issues facing the US.