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"HeyBub" wrote:

CJT wrote:
Dave Bugg wrote:

Billy wrote:


Make the taxes proportional to the benefit received from society.
The more you make, the greater the percentage you pay.


That would mean just the opposite. Those who make the most money
utilize less of the social services and other benefits awarded by
society. So those who utilize the benefits given by society should
pay the most.
That is absolutely false. Those who make the most place the most
demands on things like police protection, roads, airports, etc.

Oh no. Regarding police protection, Rosie O'Donnell has full-time private
guards and doesn't rely on police protection at all. Heck, there are way
more private security guards than there are cops and the private guards sure
aren't being paid by the folk.

Look at the other big expenditures of government: Schools: The rich kids go
private, the not-rich use government schools. Medicare/Medicade have
means-tests - the rich don't get. Welfa No rich there. And so on.

No, in sum, the rich get few benefits from tax funds. What they DO get is
regulation, rules, bureacracy, meddling, oversight, criticism, harrassment,
and, in general, just bothered to death via tax-supported factotums.

Remember Cheney's "Energy Summit"? The energy companies wrote their own
regulations. Go to any department of government and you will find a
person from the industry being regulated in charge of that department.
but that isn't what I was talking about.

It appears that this topic has taken on a life of it's own, so I'll just
bow out.
--

Billy

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