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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Taxing "the rich" accomplishes little, leaving aside the morality of unilaterally taking money from people who are successful to redistribute it to those who are not, and calling that "fair".  Countries with high levels of taxation have uniformly lower standards of living along with their more expansive social services - everybody gets to live in a small house or apartment, drive a small car, have small appliances, and have little disposable income.  In return, they receive socialized medicine which, by all reports, is better than nothing but not necessarily by much, especially if you need timely or sophisticated care.

Different models and different outcomes.  Not everyone wants to live like a typical Swede or Englishman but would prefer instead the opportunity for a better lifestyle, even if that is not guaranteed in a free market economy.[/quote]

You seem ok with children going hungry so billionaires get a tax break. You are what is wrong with America.[/quote]

No child is hungry because someone developed a successful product or service and thereby became wealthy.  Dependence on the government to feed one's children reveals more about the parents of such children than it does about people who have been successful and who don't depend on the government to keep them fed.  [/quote]

Dependence on the government to feed one's children reveals that American jobs don't pay living wages, it reveals that we have too much greed in our system with not enough oversight and cost control, which has made things like housing, healthcare costs, utility bills and other things that put that pain on people.  Housing costs have spiraled out of control, with investors buying huge amounts of housing stock, new housing construction costs continue to increase disproportionately, and so on, with very little private sector innovation or initiative to drive any of that down.

Likewise healthcare costs, there's no legitimate reason why for example an MRI scan should cost over $1000 in the US when in most other countries it costs less than $150.  It's the same piece of equipment, same procedure, same level of training.  An appendectomy in the US costs 3-4x more in the US than it does anywhere else.  A c-section delivery costs 3-4x more in the US than it does anywhere else.  Same with colonoscopies, and many other routine procedures.  And why does a prescription for Lantus cost $300 a month in the US when it's only $50 in places like Japan, or why does Xarelto cost $450 in the US and only $90 or less elsewhere, and so on?  We lack price controls, we don't negotiate, we have a broken and fragmented healthcare system that is full of rampant inefficiencies that drives bloat everywhere.

You are presuming to lecture from an obvious position of wealth privilege, completely out of touch with what the rest of America is struggling with right now.  You'd be better off shutting your mouth and listening more than presuming to try and lecture us with your ignorance.[/quote]

Spoken like someone who had children they can't afford, and who looks to the government to support their choices instead of to themselves.  Why should your bad choices be a burden on the rest of us?  Personal responsibility is a concept which evidently eludes you.  [/quote]

Non-sequitur response.  You are not actually responding to anything in the previous post, at all.  Where did it say anything about "I can't afford to feed my kids?"  You sound like a weird propaganda bot.  Either that or you have nothing but a juvenile attitude, a flailing debate style, and a lack of sufficiently robust talking points.[/quote]

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