Re:People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax ...
by anigbrowl on Friday February 05, 2010 @06:07PM
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Our government already can't manage what they have with any sort of reasonable efficiency.
An assertion in axiomatic clothing, I think.
As for your opening question, more successful at what? Certainly, success in one's career or investment is one answer, but so is 'successful at minimizing one's tax liability'. We're talking about going back to the marginal tax rates of the 1990s, which strangely I don't remember as being a time of great fiscal suffering. If we had not cut those taxes to begin with, perhaps we wouldn't have such large deficits as we presently do.
An assertion in axiomatic clothing, I think.
As for your opening question, more successful at what? Certainly, success in one's career or investment is one answer, but so is 'successful at minimizing one's tax liability'. We're talking about going back to the marginal tax rates of the 1990s, which strangely I don't remember as being a time of great fiscal suffering. If we had not cut those taxes to begin with, perhaps we wouldn't have such large deficits as we presently do.