@Renaldo Dubois,
Renaldo Dubois wrote:
Do you think everyone should pay more taxes?
I don't!!!
Most of us are overtaxed, and it has led to a shrinking of the middle class to the point of extinction... I understand why they don't want more taxes for themselves... When the income tax was first made constitutional it only affected a fraction: 11 to 13 percent of the population, but that has been pushed down onto people who should never have been subject to it... What ever scheme is put forward to find tax justice will inevetably be pushed onto classes that do not deserve it, and will not benefit from it... The rich have gained by the taxation of the poor; but if so many did not admire the rich, and live in fantasy of becoming rich, and there being untroubled with taxation, then we could easily change the law, and tax the rich, and in that fashion relieve the poor and middle classes of some of their burden... We do not tax the rich out of madness... We do not tax the rich out of an admiration for them out of all bounds to their contribution to society... They are, in their evasion of taxation, preserving their wealth and destroying ours, destroying even the meaning and value of money... We will be forced some day to take back all they have put aside or we will see some invador take all we have and theirs too... We have to return their wealth to the commonwealth, piecemeal, or all of a sudden...