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Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
ktsnake,
I am not saying start handing out cash just like it's nothing. Taxes are a necessity for educational purposes (ex. teachers, school equipment, etc), city utilities (ex. trash pickup), etc. It's not just for welfare recipients. If that's all taxes went to, then, yes I'd have a problem too. Taxes fund a lot of the things you expect out of the government. If you want to start taking your own trash to the land fill, then, by all means, do so. If you don't have governmental trash pickup, you usually pay a private company to come pick up your trash. Start sending your kids to private school and see how expensive that is. Stop attending museums financially supported by tax payers. Stop driving on roads maintained by state, city, and county . . . see how far that gets you. Now, you better stop going to the library as well. Your kids won't be able to do the research paper because mom and dad don't like paying for the library through taxation. OH! and don't go to a state supported college because, again, taxes go towards that too. Go to a private school (Furman University in Greenville, SC is between $25,000 and $30,000 a year . . . compare that to your state colleges/universities).
I am just saying the better off you are, the more is expected of you. Yes, that does mean higher taxes so the burden won't be left up to those who can afford it the least. Higher taxes on the poor and middle class won't offer an incentive to make more. It will eventually cut out the middle class (which is the largest class in America . . . if we cut them out, this country would be overwhelmed by more welfare recipients). The poor will just get farther in the hole. The rich will keep exploiting others to get richer.
Furthermore, I never called you a dumb idiot. I was just making a comparison. I simply stated that college graduates are expected to be smart individuals and not act like dumb idiots over anything. Yes, we may slip up but that's human nature.
Also, I want to ask you a question. I am not trying to offend anyone or flame anyone by this question. If you make a lot of money, does that give you the right to slack off just because you feel like it and you earned a high position/a lot of money on the totem pole? Should you just leave someone hungry or die of a disease because they didn't work as hard as you?
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Maybe in a perfect world your post would make sense....but the world we live in is far from perfect. Fact is, there will always be poor people, there will always be sickness and diesease, there will always be people who struggle and there will always be people who feel like more can be done to help the less fortunate.
Please don't missunderstand me. I'm not saying we should turn our backs on the less fortunate. Every year I clean out my wardrobe and donate clothes to the salvation army/goodwill. I give food during christmas drives to the charities. Believe me, there are plenty of ways to help the poor other than taxing the wealthy the way Kerry wants to. The business of the less fortunate should be left up to the state and local governments. Its not the federal government's problem. Some states have more poor people than others. Does that mean that Nebraska farmers should help support crack addicted junkies living in New York City? Or should the mill worker living in north carolina, who puts in 12 hour days, have to help support the single mother living in Los Angeles because she left her husband all because she thought he was cheating on her? Or should the family in surburban Chicago have to help keep alive the man who had no health insurance and yet kept having unprotected sex with gay men while living in San Fransisco? Well, what do you think?
As for your tax paragraph: Most of what you spoke on comes from state funding, not federal funding. When we speak of taxes and Bush...we're talking about federal income taxes.