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Really? That is like if I did not know who Chomsky is. Actually, even worse, Horatio Alger is history 101. I am glad those intellectual liberals educated you.
A Libertarian that does not know who Ayn Rand was?!
That just proves how intellectually bankrupt the far right is...
The names they REALLY need to know are Locke and Burke...
THEN, we'd have actual libertarians instead of selfish, amoral a**holes.
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06 Nov 2014, 8:43 pm
there is an element of humor in that 
06 Nov 2014, 9:19 pm
And earlier you said many of the middle class are millionaires struggling at business or whatever, given that statement are these taxes and higher premiums really going to hurt these people that much? If these taxes and higher premiums are enough to make all the middle class go broke then that would be excessive and a more rational tax policy would be needed.....but I do not think the taxes are that excessive at this point.
So tax people until they go broke?
It really hurts the borderline people. The people who aren't exactly poor, but don't make a lot.
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And earlier you said many of the middle class are millionaires struggling at business or whatever, given that statement are these taxes and higher premiums really going to hurt these people that much? If these taxes and higher premiums are enough to make all the middle class go broke then that would be excessive and a more rational tax policy would be needed.....but I do not think the taxes are that excessive at this point.
So tax people until they go broke?
It really hurts the borderline people. The people who aren't exactly poor, but don't make a lot.
lower income people have long had a higher net tax burden than middle and upper class. ask none other than warren buffet who maintains he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
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06 Nov 2014, 9:36 pm
And earlier you said many of the middle class are millionaires struggling at business or whatever, given that statement are these taxes and higher premiums really going to hurt these people that much? If these taxes and higher premiums are enough to make all the middle class go broke then that would be excessive and a more rational tax policy would be needed.....but I do not think the taxes are that excessive at this point.
So tax people until they go broke?
It really hurts the borderline people. The people who aren't exactly poor, but don't make a lot.
No, I oppose taxing people until they are broke, what I mean is taxes should not be so high they'd result in people going broke. However I think taxes are necessary to fund public services, so I could not support entirely getting rid of the tax system either. But taxes should be reasonable not burdensome.
06 Nov 2014, 11:22 pm
And earlier you said many of the middle class are millionaires struggling at business or whatever, given that statement are these taxes and higher premiums really going to hurt these people that much? If these taxes and higher premiums are enough to make all the middle class go broke then that would be excessive and a more rational tax policy would be needed.....but I do not think the taxes are that excessive at this point.
So tax people until they go broke?
It really hurts the borderline people. The people who aren't exactly poor, but don't make a lot.
lower income people have long had a higher net tax burden than middle and upper class. ask none other than warren buffet who maintains he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Not sure what poor people you talking about. But about 1/2 of Americans don't pay any federal tax and likely don't pay any state tax. The poor have minimal tax burden, and most likely they are drawing forms of welfare, so they take from the system, not contribute.
