Comments on: McCOTTER: Putting ‘Limited’ Back In Government http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Mad Citizen http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2532226 A Mad Citizen Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:49:37 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-2532226 Now, I'd like to know why you believe that I (and perhaps you), as a middle class citizen, should pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than someone like Warren Buffet. Now, I'd like to know why you believe that I (and perhaps you), as a middle class citizen, should pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than someone like Warren Buffet.

]]> By: Thinking_Man http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2344034 Thinking_Man Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:55:28 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-2344034 A 10% flat rate would do away with all of Warrens (and apparently your) objections to being taxed at a different rate, side step the argument with hand waving if you like but the point address yours, and you don’t like it, because it is not about the super rich using tax breaks, it's about stealing what does not belong to you to enrich your own life. A 10% flat rate would do away with all of Warrens (and apparently your) objections to being taxed at a different rate, side step the argument with hand waving if you like but the point address yours, and you don’t like it, because it is not about the super rich using tax breaks, it's about stealing what does not belong to you to enrich your own life.

]]> By: A Mad Citizen http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2288898 A Mad Citizen Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:42:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-2288898 Everyone isn't taxed at 10%. Of course Warren Buffet pays more in taxes than his secretary. Warren Buffet was referring to the fact that his secretary pays a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of her income in taxes than he does. Simple arithmetic should tell you that this would be a hand out to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, especially the upper middle class since they pay a higher percentage that the lower middle class. In any case, all governments redistribute wealth. That's how we fund the infrastructure and common services. We couldn't, for instance, privatize the military and have them bill each citizen individually for services rendered. Now, I'd like to know why you believe that I (and perhaps you), as a middle class citizen, should pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than someone like Warren Buffet. Everyone isn't taxed at 10%. Of course Warren Buffet pays more in taxes than his secretary. Warren Buffet was referring to the fact that his secretary pays a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of her income in taxes than he does. Simple arithmetic should tell you that this would be a hand out to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, especially the upper middle class since they pay a higher percentage that the lower middle class.

In any case, all governments redistribute wealth. That's how we fund the infrastructure and common services. We couldn't, for instance, privatize the military and have them bill each citizen individually for services rendered.

Now, I'd like to know why you believe that I (and perhaps you), as a middle class citizen, should pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than someone like Warren Buffet.

]]> By: Thinking_Man http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1631502 Thinking_Man Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:35:54 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-1631502 Your argument is flawed. If everyone were taxed at 10% people who made more would still pay more in dollars. Letting people or corporations keep their money is not "redistributing" anything, it's not YOURS to redistribute, if you did not earn it you do not OWN it. Sorry thats so hard for the left to figure out. If Warren is so worried about his secratary then let him raise her salary, instead he wants the rest of us to do it for him via lower middle class handouts. Typical lefist BS Your argument is flawed. If everyone were taxed at 10% people who made more would still pay more in dollars.

Letting people or corporations keep their money is not "redistributing" anything, it's not YOURS to redistribute, if you did not earn it you do not OWN it. Sorry thats so hard for the left to figure out.

If Warren is so worried about his secratary then let him raise her salary, instead he wants the rest of us to do it for him via lower middle class handouts.

Typical lefist BS

]]> By: Thinking_Man http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1631470 Thinking_Man Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:32:25 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-1631470 You are all over the place with your corporate hate here. Pick one topic and talk about that becasue this mishmash of "wrongs" done by American business is not even addressable or close to being honest. Here a few ethical truths the left has to ignore to sleep at night 1. If you make a choice you should pay for the consequences 2. You are not "owed" anything by anyone unless you have a contract with them 3. You don’t earn it you don’t own it 4. Theft is theft regardless of who you steal it from, why you steal it or who you give the loot to. Poverty has been stable regardless of handout programs for the last 50 years. Living off the largess of others means that you are receiving benefit that you did not earn, it could be because of bad mistakes that YOU made, or just YOUR general laziness, or YOUR greed, see point 4. Misuse of government money goes way, way, beyond simple handout programs, regardless I am under no moral obligation to make your life better than you can make it yourself whether you are an individual or a politician. You are all over the place with your corporate hate here. Pick one topic and talk about that becasue this mishmash of "wrongs" done by American business is not even addressable or close to being honest.

Here a few ethical truths the left has to ignore to sleep at night

1. If you make a choice you should pay for the consequences
2. You are not "owed" anything by anyone unless you have a contract with them
3. You don’t earn it you don’t own it
4. Theft is theft regardless of who you steal it from, why you steal it or who you give the loot to.

Poverty has been stable regardless of handout programs for the last 50 years.

Living off the largess of others means that you are receiving benefit that you did not earn, it could be because of bad mistakes that YOU made, or just YOUR general laziness, or YOUR greed, see point 4.

Misuse of government money goes way, way, beyond simple handout programs, regardless I am under no moral obligation to make your life better than you can make it yourself whether you are an individual or a politician.

]]> By: hockeynation http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1631022 hockeynation Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:46:44 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-1631022 Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption. Corporate welfare programs siphon funds from appropriate public investments, subsidize companies ripping minerals from federal lands, enable pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers, perpetuate anti-competitive oligopolistic markets, injure our national security, and weaken our democracy. At a time when the national GDP is soaring, one in five children lives in deep poverty, one might expect that a public effort to curtail welfare would focus on cutting big handouts to rich corporations, not small supports for poor individuals. But somehow the invocations of the need for stand-on-your-own-two-feet responsibility do not apply to large corporations. When you refer to living off the largess, are you referring to the single mom working 2 sometimes 3 jobs, just so that she can put food on the table, and have cloths on her kids backs, is this the spoiled and lazy you refer to, or is it the multi millionaire, who has benefited from tax breaks, and government subsidies, who spends millions lobbying to ensure that he does not loose any of his tax payer hand outs. Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption. Corporate welfare programs siphon funds from appropriate public investments, subsidize companies ripping minerals from federal lands, enable pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers, perpetuate anti-competitive oligopolistic markets, injure our national security, and weaken our democracy.

At a time when the national GDP is soaring, one in five children lives in deep poverty, one might expect that a public effort to curtail welfare would focus on cutting big handouts to rich corporations, not small supports for poor individuals. But somehow the invocations of the need for stand-on-your-own-two-feet responsibility do not apply to large corporations.

When you refer to living off the largess, are you referring to the single mom working 2 sometimes 3 jobs, just so that she can put food on the table, and have cloths on her kids backs, is this the spoiled and lazy you refer to, or is it the multi millionaire, who has benefited from tax breaks, and government subsidies, who spends millions lobbying to ensure that he does not loose any of his tax payer hand outs.

]]> By: Tennessee_Jed http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/21/mccotter-putting-limited-back-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1624922 Tennessee_Jed Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:25:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=63654#comment-1624922 big money owns big government. Lobbyists contol most politicians, both Republicans and Democrats. Obama, for example is controlled by trial lawyers, big labor and George Soros. big money owns big government. Lobbyists contol most politicians, both Republicans and Democrats. Obama, for example is controlled by trial lawyers, big labor and George Soros.

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