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Originally posted by jibeho
Anyone catch the fairness rhetoric? Everyone pays their fair share? So nearly 50% of the population paying zero federal income tax is now Fair? Marginalizing the middle class is fair? Pandering to voters solely on the basis of race is now fair?
Originally posted by DaTroof
Originally posted by jibeho
Anyone catch the fairness rhetoric? Everyone pays their fair share? So nearly 50% of the population paying zero federal income tax is now Fair? Marginalizing the middle class is fair? Pandering to voters solely on the basis of race is now fair?
He's not talking about taxes... he's talking about putting time into the community. Point out the part where he says the word "tax". No really. Stop being racist. Are you a Ron Paul supporter? I'd bet $50 you are.
EDIT: And the quote is "Everyone does their fair share". Not "pays". Stop putting words in Obama's mouth.edit on 22-2-2012 by DaTroof because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DaTroof
How is this video dividing our nation? I think perhaps you're letting your racism show.
To ask whether life is fair -- either here and now, or at any time or place around the world, over the past several thousand years -- is to ask a question whose answer is obvious. Life has seldom been within shouting distance of fair, in the sense of even approximately equal prospects of success.
Countries whose politicians have been able to squander ever larger amounts of a nation's resources have not only failed to make the world more fair, the concentration of more resources and power in these politicians' hands has led to results that were often counterproductive at best, and bloodily catastrophic at worst.
More fundamentally, the question whether life is fair is very different from the question whether a given society's rules are fair. Society's rules can be fair in the sense of using the same standards of rewards and punishments for everyone. But that barely scratches the surface of making prospects or outcomes the same.
Obama readily admitted that. But he said that "fairness" justified a higher tax rate on "the rich." Yet how does a higher tax rate on paper, without a real increase in the amount of taxes actually collected, promote fairness?
However, raising tax rates on "the rich" pays off politically, even if the government loses revenues when the rich put their money into tax shelters.
High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates -- or perhaps any taxes at all.