Hi Linda. I am a little behind on reading posts. I have been laying low recovering, not avoiding this conversation. I do find it very interesting, although the way you two fight is….is distracting.
You are talking as if the ”rich” are some mythical bunch of people living in palaces perched, untouchable, on the top of a hill somewhere, lounging around not doing any work. In my world/life, most people pay tax at the top level.
You don’t have to be rich to pay a lot of tax nowadays. I pay 40pct tax plus anything else they can throw at me.
That money comes out of my pocket and I assure you I feel every penny that they take away from me. It is real money. It comes out of MY wallet. The Government takes it away from ME, and I object to paying so much, to get so little back.
I work really hard, have done all my life, everything I have, I have earned myself. I have learned some skills that enable me to earn a bit more that some others and for that I get rewarded by high taxes. I pay double the tax you pay and it pisses me off.
I wholeheartedly agree with paying taxes. I live in this country and community and I am safe and happy, and for that privilege I pay tax, which is cool, but I object to paying too much tax.
Mr Trickle-down.....lol…yes I guess that does describe me pretty well. I am currently having some building work done on my house and the trickle-down is a river of money flowing into the local (English) builders doing the work. But that’s my choice.
I guess if you don’t earn that much, its easy to talk of “those rich people over there” but it is different when its your own money and then the government takes it away in such large amounts for so little return. (That is not meant to be condescending, but I can’t think of another way to say it.)
I believe that I am in a much better position to decide how I spend my money. I know what I need and I know what I want. The government has decided that I don’t.