I still think a flat tax without any deductions works. A man
making $1,000,000 should pay 10 x in real dollars as a man making
100,000. A man making $30,000 pays $4500, and man making
$1,000,000 pays $150,000.
I think that would take out some resentments on both sides. The
rich can't get any crazy tax shelters, the poor can't take a free
ride.
Why should a man making $12,000 a year pay no taxes at all?
--- Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch at ktc .D.O.T com> wrote:
> I'm not the enemy michael as I agree with you.
> I've been on both sides of the coin and life was a lot easier
> when I was
> making 12,000 a month then now when I'm making 5 - 10,000 a
> year. Funny
> thing is though, I still live about the same, I just don't have
> the money to
> buy the toy's, etc. that I may want or think I need.
>
> To me, the definition of wealthy is when your assets and
> investments allow
> you to continue making money without you having to work for
> someone else at
> a mindnumbing 40 - 50 hr a week job where you probably spend a
> good many
> hours commuting on top of the work.
>
>
> Virgil Bierschwale
> http://www.itspasttime.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com
> [mailto:profox-bounces at leafe .D.O.T com] On Behalf
> Of Michael Madigan
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:36 PM
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: RE: [OT] Empathy for Republicans
>
> I know a ballplayer making 2 million a year thinks he's poor
> compared to a
> ballplayer making 24 million a year.
>
> The median household income in NJ is 60,000. What is
> considered wealthy?
> 120,000? 180,000? 240,000? I don't know. But there are
> people in NJ
> making 100,000,000 a year, so clearly making 200k is no where
> close to
> making 100,000,000.
>
> --- Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch@ktc.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually michael, you would be surprised.
> > I'm probably the only one in my whole family that broke the
> 40,000
> > barrier, let alone the 140,000 barrier <grin>
> >
> > There is a whole world out there that makes less than 40,000
> with both
> > partners working and they have raised and supported a family
> on it.
> >
> > If that's not poverty, I don't know what is, but you wouldn't
> hear
> > them think of themselves in that way.
> >
> > We get so used to our "narrow" perception of reality because
> we live
> > in a area of like minded people who tend to go to the same
> areas that
> > other like minded people go too.
> >
> > Get out sometime and ask that pretty veternarian or the local
> county
> > clerk what they make for a living. Believe me, you will be
> surprised
> > <grin>
> >
> > By the way, I'm not saying we shouldn't try to do better as
> I'm very
> > motivated when it comes to bettering my situation. Its just
> that I
> > have also learned that the best things in life are not
> things.
> >
> >
> > Virgil Bierschwale
> > http://www.itspasttime.org
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: profox-bounces at leafe .D.O.T com
> > [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf
> > Of Michael Madigan
> > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 11:06 AM
> > To: ProFox Email List
> > Subject: RE: [OT] Empathy for Republicans
> >
> > You must be retarded.
> >
> >
> > --- Kristyne McDaniel <newsbox at mcstyles .D.O.T com> wrote:
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > > I live comfortably now, but I am not "wealthy".
> > >
> > > Apparently you don't know when you are well off. If doing
> > better than
> > > more than 98% of the rest of the population doesn't let you
> > feel that
> > > you are doing well, then I pity you.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > - Kris
> > >
> > > www.shamrocktrails.com
> > >
> > >
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> vote
> > for?
> >
> > A. John Kerry
> > B. Ralph Nader
> > C. George Bush
> >
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