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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christ, people, the point is that currently people in DC who make $40K pay the SAME marginal tax rate as those who make $200K.  You can whine all day about how not-wealthy your $200K makes you, but surely you can agree that you are a lot wealthier than a family making $40K and that you can afford to pay taxes at a slightly higher rate than the $40K family.  [/quote]
But the 40k family is making mmore than the 4k family, but paying the same tax rate. Don't you see? They should have the tax rate raised on them as well!
Seriously, there are those that think people who make more money somehow have the obligation to subsidize others. And then there's those that worked hard to get an education to get a well paying job (and paying student loans to prove it) that think they shouldn't be subsidizing someone who decided to drop out of high school. 
Neither side will agree, and both sides have merit to their arguments. It's easy to say "that guy should pay more!" when he has 6 luxury cars and 3 vacation homes, but a little harder to justify when its people down the street that don't drive luxury cars or even own a home, nor go on extravagent vacations.[/quote]

The unfortunate thing is that most people in this town don't have that kind of thinking. They feel that people who earn more somehow had everything handed to them and thus owe everyone else. Instead of praising people for working hard they would rather vilify them and shame them into paying more taxes. Never mind the fact that this money is going in to a black hole and not benefiting "the needy". I'd rather give my money to Catholic charities or some more efficient form of help.[/quote]

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