Billy wrote:
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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.

And which regulations are those? Please provide the list.

Go to any department of government and you will find
a person from the industry being regulated in charge of that
department.

You mean like the Veterans Administration?

but that isn't what I was talking about.

That seems to happen to you a lot.

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

OK.