The Glade 4.0

Wow man. I feel for you. that's just sick.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Didn't you yourself just admit that at "extreme levels of earning" the wealthy are not subject to "punitive taxation"?

I'm also kind of curious how you reached these numbers as the FICA tax IS the Medicare/SS tax, SS tax is capped at the first $106,800 of income, and the Medicare tax is 1.45%.

I'm just going on what I know. I don't know your personal situation. What I know is liberal wealthy people have come out and said they don't pay that high of a percentage of their income to taxes. I also know that the millionaires in Congress with all the power aren't going to tax themselves and their rich contributors into oblivion like you suggest.

Xequecal:

I'm giving you the numbers I pay as a self-employed individual. Those are the actual numbers from this year's filing. Uncle Sam can go suck my **** dick.

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Who is demonizing you? I'm demonizing the ones who believe that inequality of outcome is the result of wickedness alone.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

That number sucks balls.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Well you know, Khross is rich so **** him. I think it's great that he feels entitled to the money he gets paid to sit in his richy-rich ivory tower, but I've got a crack addiction to support.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Khross might be rich, but he's obviously not too smart, or he would have found all of those loopholes Xeq was telling us about...

I thought everyone on the board agreed that the CPI is at best worthless and at worst total bullshit lies based on the exclusion of the volatile commodities: food and energy? (aka sustenance and warmth)

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Oh, I agree, yes. But when you cite a graph as evidence, I generally assume you're asserting that it's a valid set of data.

When even that data doesn't represent what you're saying, I'll roll with the assumptions inherent and point it out.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Can you elaborate on this?

Why wouldn't the sources and amounts of tax revenue be your business? And if it is your business, why wouldn't the income levels that support that be your business?

That's like the best strawman EVER.

I put this in the favorite Glade quotes.

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I thought Coro was more into shrooms...

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Coro doesnt discriminate like that

The default assumption made when presenting information in that light is that "the rich have too much money so lets take more of it". It assumes that the gap in wealth between nebulous classes is somehow compelling evidence for one or more of those classes to steal from others or engage in other punitive actions. Its not, it never has been, and I am simply not interested in hearing or reading people whine about it for the umpteenth time.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville