Damn Liberals... (formerly Best Games of All Time moved)

[Weltall]

If a rich person is paying $300,000 in taxes out of a million, and a poor person is paying $3,000 in taxes out of ten thousand, that is fair to everyone. You don't want fair. You want the rich to be penalized even more, when they and the middle class pay 95% of the federal government's income. The 'poor' pay about 5%. Why don't you just say that? You know that excess taxes on the rich never end up with the poor. It is just as likely to end up in some billion-dollar liberal think-tank project researching the long-term effects of buffalo semen on arctic wildlife as in the hands of a single mother with three kids.

I just don't understand why you are against making the poor better themselves. They don't pick lower-paying jobs because of their nobility, it's because it takes less education and work to get those jobs. Six figure salaries come to those who put in extra effort in their education. I'm not rich by any means, I'm not even really middle class, but I have a very definite shot at attaining a six figure salary and that's my goal in life. If I can do it, so can others. If you settle for mediocre jobs and lousy pay, you have no one to blame but yourself. Even the poor can get ample student loans and financial aid.