| Sunspot144 | 01-12-2019 05:25 PM |
Re: american tax system
@jarsky I think you are going after the wrong people man (though they should be paying taxes). They're the winners in my book and it's hard to understand til you're one of them. For the record I'm NOT one, yet.
It's not til you employ that a lot of "once-an-employee" will understand that when you've made something of yourself everyone's gonna want a piece of you. It's a lot harder going out on your own and taking risks than it is to go after someone who "has way more money than they need." Yea, of course someone in your position would say something like that.
It's the old "employer" vs "employee" war that's been going on since forever. The employees believe their entitled to higher wages and better benefits, when in reality it's the employers that gave them an opportunity to provide for themselves. They took the risks, they made the investments, they did the work to build and make something of themselves, not the other way around. Don't like it? Get out.
So then you get advocates "for the people" *cough liberals* who try to suck you dry for all your worth because they ignore or are too blind-sighted to see that those they're fighting for didn't care to take risks and decided that working for someone else is easier. What gets rolled into their ideology are people who couldn't care less about contributing, and they reap the rewards of getting unemployment checks, cheap housing, and oh yea, free health care.
Taxes are well spent and needed IMO; like repairing/building roads and providing salaries for educational positions. But it's some of the other spending that's really disturbing. We've created a whole industry out of providing for the loose ends in our society and that includes drug addicts, criminals and people with no work ethic that gets me maddest. I remember a property manager of a government housing complex say something along the lines of "thank god for these people because without them I'd be out of work."
If you're not contributing to society in a good way you're bringing everyone else down. The money I worked for shouldn't be going to taking care of and paying those responsible for those who decided 'getting high', 'robbing a gas station' or 'not looking for a job' was a good idea. I'd give half of them the death penalty if it meant I could keep half of my taxes every year. I'm trying to survive and enjoy my 60-70 years I've got on this rock, they couldn't give less of a **** about the big picture. So now you get to wipe their ass for them. Some of them like being in jail! Think about that. | 
