“You want fair? Everybody pays ONE rate. You want my taxes to go up, that’s fine, yours too. You can bet a lot of that 47% will care a lot more about spending cuts then!”Just as long as that one rate is applied equally to payroll, investment, and capital gains taxes alike. You’ll also need to eliminate tax shelters and close the loop holes the rich use to get out of paying their fair share.
The rich already pay more per year than most Americans make in a year-The rich alread make more in a year than most Americans will make in a lifetime.-Maybe multiple lifetimes.
The latest figures were something like: the top 1% control/recieve about 40% of the wealth while the bottom 60% of wage earners split about 2% of that economic pie. Henry Ford knew if he paid his workers enough they could also buy the cars they were making; thus increasing buyers. i.e. growing the economy. He and others of that time are credited w/ creating the middle class that has been shrinking for the last 40? years. The trend lines for the same time period are: corporate profits and the wealthy have had INcreasing income, while the common hourly wage worker’s income has been DEcreasing.And it hasn’t been taxes that has spurred ‘outsourcing of jobs’. It’s been the riches gained by going from paying US hourly wages w/ benefits to paying overseas wages of $2-6 per DAY, w/ no benefits, no work safety rules and no child labor laws.My question: if someone making $20,000-30,000/ yr. pays a 10-15% what should someone pay that makes 1000 times that? (that’s $20-30,000,000/yr)
ossiningaling over 11 years ago
Lisa Benson is not on the Left. Read her previous cartoons again.
jonesb over 11 years ago
She’s isn’t on the left, at all!
Justice22 over 11 years ago
You are right about Ms Benson, She is the best satirist artist that we liberals have. I don’t knpw how you figured that out.
Jason Allen over 11 years ago
“You want fair? Everybody pays ONE rate. You want my taxes to go up, that’s fine, yours too. You can bet a lot of that 47% will care a lot more about spending cuts then!”Just as long as that one rate is applied equally to payroll, investment, and capital gains taxes alike. You’ll also need to eliminate tax shelters and close the loop holes the rich use to get out of paying their fair share.
josefw over 11 years ago
You were lucky, I was making $1.10 an hour.
braindead Premium Member over 11 years ago
The rich already pay more per year than most Americans make in a year-The rich alread make more in a year than most Americans will make in a lifetime.-Maybe multiple lifetimes.
jamnarama over 11 years ago
The latest figures were something like: the top 1% control/recieve about 40% of the wealth while the bottom 60% of wage earners split about 2% of that economic pie. Henry Ford knew if he paid his workers enough they could also buy the cars they were making; thus increasing buyers. i.e. growing the economy. He and others of that time are credited w/ creating the middle class that has been shrinking for the last 40? years. The trend lines for the same time period are: corporate profits and the wealthy have had INcreasing income, while the common hourly wage worker’s income has been DEcreasing.And it hasn’t been taxes that has spurred ‘outsourcing of jobs’. It’s been the riches gained by going from paying US hourly wages w/ benefits to paying overseas wages of $2-6 per DAY, w/ no benefits, no work safety rules and no child labor laws.My question: if someone making $20,000-30,000/ yr. pays a 10-15% what should someone pay that makes 1000 times that? (that’s $20-30,000,000/yr)
Dave Ferro over 11 years ago
Wow. Superman really did turn communist, didn’t he?