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Not sure how you got to "hoping for tax cuts" from what I wrote. I'm personally in favor of cutting taxes to zero for anybody earning less than, say, $30k/year
by jasonkester 9y ago
Not sure how you got to "hoping for tax cuts" from what I wrote. I'm personally in favor of cutting taxes to zero for anybody earning less than, say, $30k/year, and taxing the rest of us a flat rate to balance the budget. Two tax brackets: first $30k: 0%, the rest of your income: 30%. QED.
I got a little windfall that I didn't want this year, and would much prefer to have had the same amount added to my tax bill so that people who could actually appreciate a few thousand extra dollars got it instead.
But that doesn't have anything to do with this article, with its silly pie fallacy emotional appeal.
- AgentME 9y agoSorry, I probably went too far if I implied I thought you were guilty of the things mentioned in my post. I just meant that the reasoning in your post (glad rich class does exist, let's not punish them / make them not exist, maybe I can be there one day) is the foundation that I think many others use to make bad political decisions. I don't entirely disagree with those points, but I think they get too much weight relative to others in modern politics.