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Mr.Bee

(829 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 04:39 PM Jan 2025

There needs to be a change of thinking about taxes [View all]

When I was a boy, when I was in school, all throughout Jr. High and High School, I was taught taxes were a necessary contribution you made to this country!

You didn't have to pick up trash on the side of the road, you didn't have to join in a non-profit, you paid your taxes and that paid your elected leaders, your infrastructure and your education.

Somehow this 'TAXES BAD' notion popped up in the 1980s, and now we have low taxes, low wages, barely public education and an exploding debt and deficit. There is no revenue, and therefore they're coming after our entitlements we have paid into all our lives. The powers be could eliminate Medicare Social Security and Public Education and still wouldn't have revenue to pay off anything.
So please America, let's stop this notion of TAXES BAD. Bill Clinton should've raised taxes back up as soon as he took office. I will vote for the first candidate that will enact a 90% on any incomes over $100,000. Not $200,000 not $400,000, because in 2022, the average household in the top 5% earned $499,900, the median income for US households in 2023 was $80,610, meaning that half of households earned more than that and half earned less.
So let's think hard about what tax cuts really mean to the American people, and let's look outside our country at some of the happiest people in the world living where taxes are high - and they're happy to pay them!

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