Taxes follow the wealth not the individual. I am not going to elaborate as this should be apparent. I want to pay less in taxes but I am willing to pay a little to help out our kids and elderly. 4 billion in tax cuts to food stamps seems a rediculous point to argue with vehemence when we paid ~1 TRILLION dollars to bail out Wall Street assholes. While I admire a self made man, I am not thanking anyone for paying their fucking taxes because I pay mine too.
Of course it is disproportionate. A tiny fraction of income producers are charged hundreds or even thousands of times over for services they don't use or under-utilize.
- Top earners don't need regular law enforcement
- Top earners send their kids to private schools
- Top earners don't participate in Medicaid or Medicare
- Top earners don't draw SSDI and often don't even draw SS
So you have people who put millions and more into the system and take virtually nothing out of it.
Let's take point 1: top earners don't need regular law enforcement.
I am going to expand this to all public servcies such as law (including the courts), fire, disaster, FBI, military, etc. Really? Every one of us uses infrastructure and services paid for primarily by taxes. This is an absurd statement.
Point 2: top earners send their kids to private schools
They do this because they can afford to, and their kids get a much better education. Should something be done to fix our educational system? Hell yeah, but I really don't see how rich people (which most lawmakers are) not participating in an educational system they legislate is going to help 'us the people.' I don't see how that exempts them from a common goal shared by all citizens of our country.
Points 3/4: Medicaid/Medicare/SSDI/SS:
Medicaid - This is a fact, most top earners never draw Medicaid.
Medicare/SSDI/SS - unless their wages are from investments, all wages are subject to FICA. If a top earner is disabled, he generally cannot collect his private disability insurance if he does not file for SSDI so this is bullshit. I run a business and I know how this works. SS/medicare - I have never seen a rich person turn down free money they are entitled to, and this includes some well to do friends who collect SS/Medicare along with their pensions/etc. so this is bullshit too.
I want smaller government, less taxes, and everyone who can work, should work, but somehow I question some of the rationalizations I have read here or heard my own Republicans spewing. Are there no other moderates here?