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COMEDIAN ‘REDISTRIBUTES’ CHILDREN’S CANDY IN HILARIOUS ‘OBAMA-STYLE’ HALLOWEEN PRANK
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Of course there is an incentive to try harder.
If I am making a wimpy 10 bars of candy an hour and the candy monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 7 bars to do with what I like.
If I am making 100 bars/hour and the monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 70 bars to do with what I like.
Therefore the more candy bars I make the more it benefits me and the more it benefits my country
The problem is, we have too many candy hoarders that have so much candy they are forced to hide it in their pockets. They even move it into other countries because they don't want to pay the same 30% as everyone else.
Heck they are even willing to pay people tons of candy to overlook their candy when it's audit time.
The bag solution you provide is a bit off, but still fits. The worst way to measure candy is by the bag full. 15% of a pillow case is way more than 15% of a plastic grocery bag. What some people try to do is put all their good candy into a smaller bag so when the monster comes he can't take all of the good candy.
Flat tax is the only thing that makes any sense at all.
Imagine this same experiment where you only took 10% from a bag filled with candy and took 30% from a bag half full.
This is the problem with the current economic state of this country.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11169418 We should just get rid of the income tax.... I know that wouldn't happen....politicians love wasting our money too much for that to ever happen. I don't understand why people advocate taking more money from people. Just because those people earn more than them.. I don't want people who make more than me, to pay more taxes....that's not right, let the people keep what they earn. I love that smilie that a few people post, says "I never understood why it is considered greed to want to keep what you earn, yet not considered greed to want and take what others have earned." Yeah I'll agree the income tax is completely absurd. But the way I look at it its like this. If I am a high income earner and rely on people to do the heavy lifting for me, i.e. a job creator. Then I rely more heavily on public transportation, health care, road maintenance, electric, water, sewer, gas. Cause not only do my employees need these things to get to their job, but also I use more federal and state facilities and utilities. I own buildings that need to be up more often than not. My workers rely on the same utilities as I, but if the road is closed they just can't get to work. If the power s out, they don't make any widgets for the day. Sure some may still collect pay, but most will not. So as a high income job creator I rely more heavily on govt. Utilities and transportation. Heck I can even run my business through the post office. So this is how I justify the flat tax rate ideology. Yes I make more so I owe more, but in all actuality I rely on public services more so than the average worker. Considering workers only rely on these things for their own good, I rely on utilities and transportation for each one of my workers and for the business as a whole. Do I think its fair for high earners to have to pay more percentage wise than a normal wage earner? No but having to pay more into a system that I rely more heavily on is something that I totally agree with. I see your point of view. I have a few disagreements with it, but all in all I see your points.  I'll agree there are definitely some holes to my theory, but there are holes in every financial theory. That is why there isn't any one that has withstood the test of time. Income tax needs to die either way. And if you are an american and make most of your money in the US you can't shelter your earnings.
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