“Please raise my taxes”
Some halfwit who claims to be “unemployed by choice” begs the President to “please raise my taxes”;
I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell Grants, infrastructure, and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am.
First of all, if he’s not earning any money, he’s not paying income taxes. Maybe he’s paying capital gains on his investments, but he’s not paying income taxes since he has no income. So who is he to ask for a tax increase? he has the option to voluntarily send in some money if he feels that would assuage his guilt over not paying enough, but why is he so ready to inflict his guilty feelings on the rest of us?
And yeah, I’d like to see kids get a decent education, I’d even be willing to pay more taxes if kids got a decent education. But, for example, at the college from which I graduated, a large number of students were psychology majors, which is an absolutely worthless field of endeavor if the student only intends to get a bachelor’s degree.
And, oh, I learned more in high school than I learned twenty years later in college because of “education inflation.” The public schools are more focused on the social aspect of beiong a teenager than they are in educating students – because of the proliferation of grants, everyone is going to college, so let’s spend more time practicing to put condoms on bananas than on the Constitution.
Employers don’t have job training programs? What we need is an education system that provides a baseline education so that employers spend their time and money training people for job-specific tasks. The government can’t do that no matter how much money we give them.
ADDED: Michelle Malkin says that the guy who is so generous with your tax money is a DNC plant. This is my shocked face.
The guy is a plant. He’s been found to have given $300,000 in the last ten years in contributions….all to Democrats.
Yup–guy’s name is Doug Edwards. And also correct, if he doesn’t have any income, he doesn’t pay any income taxes.
But what dipshit there doesn’t realize is that by increasing capital gains taxes is that it puts less money into the private sector to grow the economy and grow jobs, and that all sorts of people pay capital gains taxes, like retirees, etc., not just “rich” people.
IOW, he wants Obumbler to raise everyone else’s taxes.
The way democrats like that guy thinks, makes me laugh. No one stops him from volunteering to write a bigger check to the US Treasury, aka IRS. No one.
The problem is that guys like this bozo will only do it when there is legislation that says they must. How many of the dem whiners sent back their 600 rebates during the Bush years or didn’t cash the check? Not one.
STFU, Dougie and pay up instead. Why wait?
Here’t the thing; I don’t begrudge any of these assholes their right to contribute to whatever they desire. Where we leave the reservation is pretending that they are these unencumbered, merely interested third parties. This is sock puppet theater at its worst and seeks to support a narrative that all of these wealthy jack-offs are just sitting there waiting for the go-ahead from Teleprompter Jebus to give them their justly deserved tax bill. It’s horseshit and they know it.
I think it is funny that people like Buffett is saying they want taxes raised. The man’s company hasn’t paid taxes since 2002 and owes big time. That’s right, the President’s poster-child for tax increases is deeper in the hole than Wesley Snipes!
Any bets on whether Buffet is going to be joining Snipes any time soon, or ever? Buffet’s empire is about billion bucks in the hole with the government, yet he has no problem paying more? Puh-leeze.
And, I’m not surprised this ass clown is a plant. Look for that strategery to expand exponentially as the election draws nearer.
Funny thing is, a billion to Buffet is like a couple grand to you and me.
In your own words:
“What we need is an education system that provides a baseline education…”
Class sizes of the Honors/Advanced-Placement -level classes are small for a reason. “Standard” -level is the catchall for underachievers.
So I ask: do you dispute the effectiveness of the education system itself, or the competence of the parents whose offspring over/populate said system? After all, not all education occurs in the classroom.
Personally, we need to go to a flat tax. Oh, the rich aren’t paying their fair share. Bullshit, they now pay as much as you do. Burn the tax code, send all the IRS agents to INS to hunt illegals as much as they do middle class tax evaders, and call it good.
At the end of the year, you get a letter telling you how much you made. Whether it is income, capital gains, estate, investments, etc. It tells you how much you paid and, if necessary, how much you owe.
Oh, you made $123,000 last year. Our records indicate that you paid only $10,000 in taxes. Because the current flat tax is 10%, please send a check for the additional $13,000.
Oh, you made $132,000 last year. Our records indicate that you paid $14,200 in taxes. Here is a check for the $10,000 that you overpaid.