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Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by Hefficide
So it seems "blame" and "rejection of responsibility for" are synonymous to you? These are entirely different concepts in my world. If I blamed the poor, I'd be out shaking the beggars down for spare change. I'm not in any way doing that, but neither am I happily sharing my productivity with them anymore.
Originally posted by Hefficide
And, yes, we're all going to have to pitch in going forward - regardless of what party wins what race. It's a matter of discipline and desire vs doctrine and dogma at this point in the game.
~Heff
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
1. I've directly been responsible as a productive employee for my company. We've been discussing the idea that those who produce far less than their "share" somehow deserving me shelling out a larger chunk as my "share" to compensate for their lackings. The problem with that is, in any business unit aside from union protected workers, non producers and underachievers get the pink slip. They don't keep the dead weight and demand the rest of the employees not only pick up the slack, but do so for the benefit of the unproductive.
Over and over again we hear Democrats claim that raising tax rates on the rich won’t dampen economic recovery. They also claim it would only affect a fraction of small business owners. In yesterday’s debate, the president asserted, as he has often, that 97 percent of businesses who pay individual rates would not see a tax increase.
Well, judging from this new study by Internal Revenue Service, allowing Bush-era tax rates for high earners to expire, the centerpiece of President Obama’s tax plan and a big part of his campaign rhetoric, would mean that 1 million companies would be hit with new taxes. According to the IRS, which goes to great lengths to define a small business, high-income earners make up 24 percent of all small businesses that have employees.
Other studies (and pundits) have grossly underestimated the impact that a tax hike on high earners might take on small business, discounting owners of small C corporations and others. Wealthy earners with small businesses account for 923,000 businesses with employees. There are many more in business for themselves.....
IRS: Obama tax hike threatens one million small businesses