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Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by FlyersFan
Who they gonna tax when all the rich people are gone?
Originally posted by caterpillage
Not much incentive then to risk your time, energy and capital starting a business and building into something. Much easier to just stay on the low end and live off the system.
Originally posted by jlfose
Or put another way a 75 percent tax would leave the person with the equivalent of $312,000 Dollars a year after taxes. Doesn't that seem like more than enough money to live really well on each year?
It's THEIR brainpower and THEIR effort that makes that wealth. No one has a right to steal it from them.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
I would like to make a million, but if I did I would not begrudge paying my taxes back into a pot that has provided the nation with things that only tax can pay for.
Originally posted by Submarines
I'm not sure how the French tax code works, but if it is like the US, 50 percent of people, all lower and middle class either don't pay taxes or get their taxes refunded. Imagine if everyone paid a fair share of taxes, how much the governments would have.
What this is all about is those that don't pay tax now, and really don't want to in the future, want people to tow the line for them. The few pay for the many.
1 Million Euros a year is about 1.25 Million Dollars a year.
Or put another way a 75 percent tax would leave the person with the equivalent of $312,000 Dollars a year after taxes
. Doesn't that seem like more than enough money to live really well on each year?
I can't speak on what France should do, but in the US I don't see why we don't just go with a flat federal tax rate. One rate that is the same for everyone with no deductions except for a home or school loan. That way if you work hard you will not have a disincentive to continuing to do so, and because there are no loopholes everyone pays.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Wertdagf
LOL yeah because we all all know people with desk jobs deserve to live in mansions.
the work is sooooo hard it took so much education..
People deserve to get paid for what they do.
Go to college ... earn an engineering degree ... get paid for your brain power.
Seriously .. you just sound jealous.
Originally posted by randomname
if the rich are just going to store their wealth in a computer database, what good is it doing anybody.
It's THEIR money. They earned it. It's THEIRS.
It's NONE OF OUR BUSINESS if they want to save it or spend it or invest it.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by DaRAGE
Do you pay taxes?
I would like to have a million.
If you just won a million would you want to give up seventy five percent of it?
I would like to decide who got the other 75%, not where the government spent it.
Originally posted by StarBoy
Taxing the rich is not the answer. It means less jobs, lower wages, and less production.
People need to understand that we need less regulations and taxes, but in a new monetary system based on something rare.
This can only be done by a total system crash, which is coming. Buy gold and silver to save your wealth. And food, ammo...
Originally posted by StarBoy
Taxing the rich is not the answer. It means less jobs, lower wages, and less production.
People need to understand that we need less regulations and taxes, but in a new monetary system based on something rare.
This can only be done by a total system crash, which is coming. Buy gold and silver to save your wealth. And food, ammo...
Originally posted by jlfose
1 Million Euros a year is about 1.25 Million Dollars a year. Or put another way a 75 percent tax would leave the person with the equivalent of $312,000 Dollars a year after taxes. Doesn't that seem like more than enough money to live really well on each year?