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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language. [/quote]

I'm easily in the 1%. And the bottom line is this:  I am sacrificing precious little when I pay taxes.  We just write a check and that's that.  I could not even tell you when it hits the bank account.

Meanwhile, there are other people who have to make real family choices based on their taxes.  The dollar amount of my bill, which is comfortably in the six digits, does not in any way represent the personal sacrifice of someone who has to pick and choose what clothes to buy for their kids or whether they can afford an apartment with an extra bedroom.  It just doesn't and we should stop pretending that the absolute dollar amount measures sacrifice.[/quote]

Thank you for this. Very well put. [/quote]

I donate a lot of money. I would rather pay an organization that I trust to distribute my donations to the poor and needy then the inefficient method of government tax collection and assistance. If a charity does a bad job or I don't agree with what they do then I can pull the plug on them and move to a different one.

I would [b]rather have a mandatory charitable donation percentage of my choosing be implemented then having to pay taxes which I have no idea how or where it is being spent[/b].[/quote]

It's spent paying the air traffic controllers to keep your plane from running into another airplane.  It is spent on your military so that you can feel safer from militias and terrorists.  It is spent on repairing roads roads  to take you to your six figure job.  It's spent on the bridges so that your car does not fall into the Potomac.  It's spent on the local police so that you can have semblance of rule of law, unlike Mogadishu.  It is spent on educating the next generation of children so that the future does not resemble Mogadishu.  It is spent on the paramedics and firefighters to put out the fires and render medical assistance if your car was to hit that rough icy patch and collide into another vehicle.  It is spent on the invention of new technology which allowed you to post your asinine comment in the first place.  It is spent on medical research that produced vaccines you and your DC undoubtably utilized and thus did not die from polio, chicken pox, malaria, measles, smallpox like millions across the world are doing every month.  It is used to provide intel for the FBI so that you don't live in constant fear of the DC Sniper.  It is spent roviding low-income or no-income mothers of small children milk, cheese, bread, etc so that their children are not starving in the streets. It is spent on drug testing and food testing to protect you from unsafe drugs and contaminated deadly foods.  It is spent on securing levies in Louisiana, breaking dams in overflooded Missouri, fighting fires in Coloroda, salting the streets to free up ice on the roads in Bethesda.  And so on and so on.  It is money well spent so that you can have the luxury to take it all for granted.  [/quote]

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