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Learning Richard, 12/21/2005, 2:24:51 PM,
<1135193091.515828.101880@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> > There is something definitely wrong with your thinking. The rich
> > pay way more taxes to the government than the poor or middle class
> > do.[/color]
>
> As a percentage of their income? You mean to tell me that folks who
> get 7 and 8 figure salaries actually deserve to pay such a paltry
> pennance of their wealth?[/color]

Deserve? Are you still in the entitlement mode? Regardless, we both
know that the tax laws will never change to anything resembling a Fair
Tax. The rich will always have to pay a larger percentage of their
income compared to the rest. There will always be the assumption that
"they have more money so they can give up more", similar to the
entitlement mentality.
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> In fact (and I digress slightly), the middle class gives a much larger
> percentage of their income to charity (I've hear 2.4%, whereas those
> who make over 150k give about 0.8%).[/color]

I give nearly 10% -- who are the other slackers. When it comes to
charity, the donee is more interested in the amount given rather than
the percentage of the person's income. Bill Gates' billion dollar
donations are much more substantial than my few thousand dollar
donations. What I give to my church is because of my desire to help
with God's work. If the government mandated I give so much to my
church (or any other organization) I would resent that tremondously.
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> Yeah and I benefit from capital gains tax reductions as well, but I
> don't deserve those benefits if it means that the parent of a poor
> child has to skip her dinner so her kid can eat, after she spent a day
> serving up combo meals at McDonalds, because suddenly she earns too
> much for food stamps.[/color]

If you don't deserve those benefits pass them on to a charity where
they will be used to feed that woman. Stop passing the buck and do
something yourself to help others.

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"I do not belong to any organised political party: I'm a democrat." ~
Will Rogers