Monday, January 28, 2008
Voting for the Future
Many people vote for tax cuts for the rich and other similar policies because they believe that some day they will be rich. That may happen, but statistics show that most people will remain in the class they are born into. People get they idea that they will be rich because they hear stories about people who were poor and started their own company and became rich, but these are exceptions to the rule. You should vote based on the class you're in now, not the class you think you'll be in in the future.
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Without hope or dreams a person can't have vision. You are what you want to be, meaning "you can become what you are really willing to work for. Your limitations depend on you and are usaully set by your on preception of things!
But when it comes voting maybe people should be a little more realistic.
I disagree with the part that you will "remain in the class you are born into". Some people are born into families that don't have much money because they didn't do anything in school. If they go through school and become a doctor they will be in a different class then what they were born in.
Martin, you're mind set is the reason for people making those statistics true. Also, to understand the tax system, you have to understand the tax system. No matter what group you are in, is it fair that while lower to middle class people pay in up to 20 or mid 30 percent of their income to taxes, the people who earn over a million dollars pay up to 54 percent, which according to my father, who is a cpa, is about the highest tax bracket in america? Personally, I don't think the rich and the deserving need to help out any more than the poor, and DEFINITELY not half of the income you make over a million.
>I disagree with the part that you will "remain in the class you are born into".
While it is true that some people do rise out of the class they are born into, the overwhelming majority of people do not ever get out of the class they are born in to.
>No matter what group you are in, is it fair that while lower to middle class people pay in up to 20 or mid 30 percent of their income to taxes, the people who earn over a million dollars pay up to 54 percent
You are only looking at half of the equation here. The rich use up way more of the resources that government spends. Of the $3 trillion budget, only $200 billion go to poor people. And that doesn't even include state and local budgets, which also disproportionately go to those higher on the financial ladder.
>which according to my father, who is a cpa, is about the highest tax bracket in america?
It isn't a tax bracket. "Brackets" refer to income taxes and the top income tax bracket is around 35%. 54% comes from adding other forms of taxes to that.
>Personally, I don't think the rich and the deserving need to help out any more than the poor
"Rich and deserving" is very questionable logic. However you define deserving, I'm sure there are many, many examples of rich people who don't fit that definition.
Jd, I was going to respond to your comments however Mr. Q, has summed it all up. I would ask you one thing though; Did you ever stop to question your source "your dad" and was his veiw baised or unbais?
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