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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rates are unrealistically low. They need to be graduated up greatly. If you're making under 50K, your rate should be 5%. But it should scale upwards quickly from there. After 75K, it should be 90-95%. [b]At 250K, it should be 99%[/b]. Likewise for unearned income, which should also be 99%. And I'd also do away with probate completely, with all of an estate up as taxes unless survivors can show cause as to why they should get those assets.

That will even things out and get rid of the huge disparity of wealth in this country, which is really what is driving all the problems in this country. [/quote]

So why work hard?   What do you want? The USSR and soviet block apt buildings?[/quote]
Agree. The first poster, who wants to tax $75k incomes at 90%+, is a pure socialist. Take virtually all income from middle-class earners (leaving them crumbs) to give to lower-class people who earn nothing or very little. Pretty soon, everyone is living an equally low-level lifestyle.[/quote]

You call it low level because you hate the poor.

I call it fair and sustainable, because I understand the rich need to be punished for stealing the wealth of the people.

[b]You are a criminal. I am a patriot. [/b]

And your comparison to the former Soviet System is telling, but you probably don't even realize that you make my point for me. Under the Soviets, everyone had a home. Everyone had food. Everyone had free medical care. Everyone had a free college education if they had the aptitude. There was no money in politics. There was no politics in politics. Everyone had an equal standard of living. There were no disgusting displays of wealth. What you think was a bad system was actually a near perfect one, for the people it served. Until they couldn't sustain the GDP required to keep up with the defense spending necessary to counter the threat from Reagan.

Disgusting [/quote]
You sound like the typical extreme liberal - a socialist in this case - who calls someone a criminal and disgusting for disagreeing with you!

No....I don't call it low-level because I hate the poor. I have experienced a hint of what you want - moving the middle-class down to a lower-leve in order to "equalize" lifestyles. Because of Obamacrap and $900 monthly premiums (with nothing covered) so the low-income could get it free, I have had to forsake buying a new car (my current is 18 years old), have not taken a vacation in three years, eat all my meals at home (a splurge is now IHOP), and watch my pennies.

So would YOU be OK with that? Drive a car nearly 20 years old, forsake all vacations, give up going to restaurants, drop down to buying cheap clothes, etc., so everyone can live an equally lower-level, "sustainable" life? I seriously doubt it.

My biggest fear is that power will move to extreme and delusional liberals like you, who are not only advocates for country-destroying socialism but hateful and insulting to anyone who doesn't want to give up the accoutrements of middle class life for which they strived, like a new car after 12 years or an occasional vacation, so that people with less education/skills/work ethic can live "equally." In what world are people who barely finished  high school and work low-skill jobs entitled to live as well as a college graduate who trained for a profession? People like you would turn us into Greece in five years. (And you call yourself the patriot and me the criminal!)

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