Occupy Wall Street live General Assembly meeting

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

, while increasing the taxes on everyone else, even those too poor to now have to pay taxes.

Decide a percentage and charge everyone the same, no deductions. At 15% someone making $5 billion like that Dem Paulson guy will pay 750 million while someone making 5K on welfare will pay will pay 750 bucks. 750 mill v. 750 bucks. That's fair!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

That's fair!

Well, not if you think that regressive taxes that impact the poorest more greatly than the richest are most certainly not "fair" in the least. You know, increasing the tax rate for the poorest, while massively decreasing it for the wealthiest?

Oh yeah: and every single "flat tax" proposal out there takes income away from the government. Massive income cuts. I guess that's okay for the selfish and unAmerican that don't want the government to actually, you know, do anything for Americans.

But hey, you wanna support starting to tax people that are now considered too poor to have to pay federal taxes, you go with it, and see how far it takes you