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Zeus 10/27/20 2:26:56 PM #26:	wolfy42 posted... If you make more than 400k a year, do you REALLY need to worry about being taxes 40% or 52% etc? Yes. wolfy42 posted... Money is great, but at some point shouldn't you start thinking about society as a whole and how improving it will probably ALSO improve your own life more than another couple hundred K a year will? If you want to improve society, you wouldn't give it to government. Overlooking the fact that you'd get no say in how that money would be used vs putting it to the public good yourself, government is a corrupt, bureaucratic machine that, in the best of circumstances, swallows up money while only putting a fraction of it to good use. In reality, much of that money (that which isn't swallowed by the machine) is put to bad use. wolfy42 posted... So yeah, if you ask me, any decent human being making more than 400k a year should want something along those lines, you still get tons of money coming in (many of them millions, some of em billions) but you help support the system and make it a better world for everyone. Any decent human being would balk at supporting governments, let alone our government. However there's nothing stopping somebody who wants to give more to government than they're required to give from giving that extra money. Let those who want to do that do that, but leave the rest of us out of it. wolfy42 posted... If you apply a tax for a specific reason and it needs to be voted in, then that tax DOES need to be used for that reason. Like the 12% tax over 400k, is specifically used for social security as an example. That's untrue. Government is in the habit of raiding one fund to pay for something else. wolfy42 posted... And it's not being robbed, Oh? So it's not men with guns threatening you if you don't hand money over against your will? So if I just decide to not pay taxes, nothing bad will happen to me? wolfy42 posted... I have friends who make a ton of money and think that way, but you are literally doing a job (those that even work mind you, some of the richest people don't work at all but make more than 99% of americans), and getting paid (in this case) over 400k a year for it. Your not working 4x as many hours as the average American and certainly not more then 8x as many hours. Which is a silly argument because clearly not all work is equal so looking only at hours is a ridiculously stupid argument. However, anybody is free to hone the skills and get the education to earn more money. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:946370440] in Why is 50 ... [t:79066359]...</cite> <quote>wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>If you make more than 400k a year, do you REALLY need to worry about being taxes 40% or 52% etc?</quote> Yes. wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>Money is great, but at some point shouldn't you start thinking about society as a whole and how improving it will probably ALSO improve your own life more than another couple hundred K a year will?</quote> If you want to improve society, you wouldn't give it to government. Overlooking the fact that you'd get no say in how that money would be used vs putting it to the public good yourself, government is a corrupt, bureaucratic machine that, in the best of circumstances, swallows up money while only putting a fraction of it to good use. In reality, much of that money (that which isn't swallowed by the machine) is put to bad use. wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>So yeah, if you ask me, any decent human being making more than 400k a year should want something along those lines, you still get tons of money coming in (many of them millions, some of em billions) but you help support the system and make it a better world for everyone.</quote> Any decent human being would balk at supporting governments, let alone our government. However there's nothing stopping somebody who wants to give more to government than they're required to give from giving that extra money. Let those who want to do that do that, but leave the rest of us out of it. wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>If you apply a tax for a specific reason and it needs to be voted in, then that tax DOES need to be used for that reason. Like the 12% tax over 400k, is specifically used for social security as an example.</quote> That's untrue. Government is in the habit of raiding one fund to pay for something else. wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>And it's not being robbed, </quote> Oh? So it's not men with guns threatening you if you don't hand money over against your will? So if I just decide to not pay taxes, nothing bad will happen to me? wolfy42 posted... </cite> <quote>I have friends who make a ton of money and think that way, but you are literally doing a job (those that even work mind you, some of the richest people don't work at all but make more than 99% of americans), and getting paid (in this case) over 400k a year for it. Your not working 4x as many hours as the average American and certainly not more then 8x as many hours.</quote> Which is a silly argument because clearly not all work is equal so looking only at hours is a ridiculously stupid argument. However, anybody is free to hone the skills and get the education to earn more money. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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