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You do realize the reason they're calling for high taxation is to reduce the costs of kids going to college, child support, and the elimination of major medical
by ori_b 14y ago
You do realize the reason they're calling for high taxation is to reduce the costs of kids going to college, child support, and the elimination of major medical not covered by insurance?
Edit: Sorry, child support should be removed from that list; I was thinking of the costs of raising a child, not what you pay after a divorce.
- largesse 14y agoIf the cost of those and impact of taxation varied at the same time and the same degree that would be no problem. But that has never happened. Given the state of our governmental problem-solving ability in the US all those numbers can do is diverge.
- acchow 14y agoPwned. Also, it's not a zero-sum game. Your taxes can drive up demand to make you even wealthier. Except, perhaps many wealthy people don't actually want more wealth. They just want to be better off then everyone else...
- largesse 14y agoPwned? You really think those problems are going to be solved in the near term? Given the state of our government?
- saraid216 14y agoThe state of our government is in no small part due to people refusing to be taxed.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoAmerican tax rates are not outliers and spending as a percentage of GDP is historically high.
- saraid216 14y agoIrrelevant. The point being made originally was about legislative deadlock.
- hnal943 14y agoIt's not irrelevant - you claimed that the reason legislative deadlock occurs is that people refused to be taxed more. What about the people who refuse to cut automatic increases to spending? Are they to be absovled?
- saraid216 14y agoConsidering the context of this thread, which is about reasons to increase spending and the fact that this would never happen in a deadlocked legislature, the idea that people who refuse to cut spending would be to blame is sort of contradictory.
- largesse 14y agoThat's a fine observation, but unless it can be fixed in the aggregate it's still part of the intractability of the problem. Or (more directly), you're not offering a solution, you're making a complaint.
- mynameishere 14y agoPeople are calling for high taxes to reduce child support? Do you just put random words in a blender and dump out the results?
- socialist_coder 14y agoIf more of the cost of raising a child is paid for by taxes then one might assume child support payments would go down.
- largesse 14y agoIn divorce, there is a settlement agreement. Once you are locked in no one is looking at the cost of living.
- largesse 14y agoI know. I didn't know what to make of that one either.
- 001sky 14y agoYou do realize the reason they're calling for high taxation is to reduce the costs of kids going to college.... Huh? Gov't tax == subsidies == tuition inflation.
- rattray 14y agoI don't believe that's how the math plays out in most socialist countries, where uni often costs a few grand a year iirc. The particulars of the current American system are a different story if we look at certain kinds of private colleges.