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I'm all for this. What changes do you propose, how do you intend on carrying out those changes so that the execution matches the intent, and how can I help?

by rkho 8y ago

KozmoNau7 8y ago
As a country, take care of your disadvantaged people, the jobless, the homeless, the troubled. Enforce a proper minimum wage, scaled as a proper living wage for a given area. Enact single payer healthcare. Stop persecuting minorities, and end the ridiculous war on drugs. Enact gun control. In the longer run, abolish (crony) capitalism, abolish lobbying and "campaign donations" (bribes) and break the military-industrial complex. Make the wealthy actually pay their taxes and give back to the society that they built their wealth on top of. Increase equality.
- pageandrew 8y ago
  > make the wealthy actually pay their taxes Sounds like you need to get your facts straight. > A Pew Research Center analysis of IRS data from 2015, the most recent available, shows that taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more paid well over half (58.8%) of federal income taxes https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjKrI2YxPHeAhXeGTQIHYJ0DPkQzPwBegQIARAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Ffact-tank%2F2017%2F10%2F06%2Fa-closer-look-at-who-does-and-doesnt-pay-u-s-income-tax%2F&psig=AOvVaw2msuvZt4ZVhtEqDoVs4Me6&ust=1543303633491797 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjK...
  - KozmoNau7 8y ago
    They are still paying nowhere near the same portion of their income as those of less advantage are paying. Plus their disposable income is still vastly larger, and they're basically untouched by the regressive costs paid by less fortunate people. The wealthy should pay more, that is why progressive tax systems exist. They reap the largest benefit of society's goods, by a gigantic margin.
  - dmm 8y ago
    Only 47% of federal revenue is from income taxes though. 34% is from regressive payroll taxes. Taxes need to be way higher. Federal revenues this year barely cover mandatory spending.
  - JetSpiegel 8y ago
    And yet their share of wealth increased. Percentage of a lowering tax base (Trump's tax cuts) is irrelevant. They need to pay more tax in absolute terms.

I'm all for this. What changes do you propose, how do you intend on carrying out those changes so that the execution matches the intent, and how can I help?

by rkho 8y ago

I'm all for this. What changes do you propose, how do you intend on carrying out those changes so that the execution matches the intent, and how can I help?

KozmoNau7 8y ago

As a country, take care of your disadvantaged people, the jobless, the homeless, the troubled. Enforce a proper minimum wage, scaled as a proper living wage for a given area. Enact single payer healthcare. Stop persecuting minorities, and end the ridiculous war on drugs. Enact gun control. In the longer run, abolish (crony) capitalism, abolish lobbying and "campaign donations" (bribes) and break the military-industrial complex. Make the wealthy actually pay their taxes and give back to the society that they built their wealth on top of. Increase equality.

pageandrew 8y ago
> make the wealthy actually pay their taxes Sounds like you need to get your facts straight. > A Pew Research Center analysis of IRS data from 2015, the most recent available, shows that taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more paid well over half (58.8%) of federal income taxes https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjKrI2YxPHeAhXeGTQIHYJ0DPkQzPwBegQIARAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Ffact-tank%2F2017%2F10%2F06%2Fa-closer-look-at-who-does-and-doesnt-pay-u-s-income-tax%2F&psig=AOvVaw2msuvZt4ZVhtEqDoVs4Me6&ust=1543303633491797 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjK...
- KozmoNau7 8y ago
  They are still paying nowhere near the same portion of their income as those of less advantage are paying. Plus their disposable income is still vastly larger, and they're basically untouched by the regressive costs paid by less fortunate people. The wealthy should pay more, that is why progressive tax systems exist. They reap the largest benefit of society's goods, by a gigantic margin.
- dmm 8y ago
  Only 47% of federal revenue is from income taxes though. 34% is from regressive payroll taxes. Taxes need to be way higher. Federal revenues this year barely cover mandatory spending.
- JetSpiegel 8y ago
  And yet their share of wealth increased. Percentage of a lowering tax base (Trump's tax cuts) is irrelevant. They need to pay more tax in absolute terms.