JohnGalt338 Wrote:
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> I am sick of all these liberal millionaires
> claiming that the tax rate is too low and that
> they would be willing to pay more -- well put more
> fucking money in your annual tax payment. You ARE
> allowed to overpay your taxes.
>
> I recognize that we have to pay taxes for our
> government and services. What I don't like is the
> complexity of the tax code and the BS exemptions
> that are out there. A flat rate tax with only
> very basic exemptions would give an expectation of
> fairness to everyone.
>
> Unfortunately, once you do pay your taxes people
> like Gerry Connolly and Obama seem to think it is
> THEIR money to spend on any wildly liberal cause
> that comes along. It remains OUR money entrusted
> to our elected representatives. It's time we get
> folks in our elected positions who understand what
> that means.
>
> As for Mitt Romney, most of his "income" is
> capital gains and has already been heavily taxed
> once at the corporate level. For every person
> upset about his tax rate, consider how people
> would view getting their investments taxed at the
> ordinary income rate. Everyone wants Mitt's
> money, but by all accounts he was a savvy investor
> who made some perceptive choices. Rather than tax
> his investments to death, as Obama would like to
> do, I would rather know his secrets to success.
His secret...or rather the secrets of his tax adivisors is nothing more than knowing the rules and following them.
He didn't write the tax codes. Congress did that. Congress wrote the loopholes too. And Congress has always had the power to close those loopholes.
Why haven't they?
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