If the General were held today, how would you vote?

[Denny Crane]

Sure a flat tax, by definition, is not regressive. However, with our current level of deductions tend to target higher wage earners. So, it is plausible to believe if you instituted a flat tax rate but left the deductions in place that you would efffectively create a regressive tax system when looking at effective tax rates rather than the nominal rates.

Deductions are necessary. Consider you sell a widget for $1 that costs you $.50 in material to make. Is your income $1 or $.50? Without deductions, your income is $1 (but it's really $.50).

The tax system is not regressive, nor would a flat tax based system be regressive.

As it stands now, the top 1% pay more taxes than the bottom 90% combined. The top 10% pay 70% of all the income taxes. If it weren't progressive, the top 10% would pay 10% of the taxes.

 

[dviss1]

As it stands now, the top 1% pay more taxes than the bottom 90% combined. The top 10% pay 70% of all the income taxes. If it weren't progressive, the top 10% would pay 10% of the taxes.

You and I have always disagreed on this. We will continue to disagree.

 

[Denny Crane]

You and I have always disagreed on this. We will continue to disagree.

That the top 1% pays more than the bottom 90% in income taxes is a fact. There's nothing to agree or disagree about it.

 

[blue32]

Another typical day on the forums where someone gets offended. Ya'll need to get your butt cramps looked at bros, brothers, dawgs, dogs, playas, players!

 

[rasheedfan2005]

You didn't need to bring up Rosa Parks in the first place. That's one of the most terrible analogies I've ever seen. My post didn't illicit that response. You went out of your way to post that crap. And then to tell me to get over myself after you make a point to post it, makes your apology fall flat.

Perhaps I knew from past conversation that rosa parks was an easily identifiable and relatable historical figure that you can relate to. There for making my analogy easy to understand. I dont see how it is racist. you could do the same with say, jeffery dhamer and myself. While im not racist nore a cannabal, i can easily relate to such a character because we are both white, and emotionless psychopaths.

Now after you tried to project me as a racist, I ran with it a bit I'll admit. But that's how ive always handled false accusation, by doing what I'm accused of, to elicit a response and help my subject see that they were wrong in their original assumption. Good chat, dawg.

Now to defend my analogy. Rosa parks, simply sat down and refused to move, she trolled a bunch of racist idiots and became a hero. I simply dont vote, and by not doing so, troll the system, which pretty much makes me a modern day hero.

 

[dviss1]

Perhaps I knew from past conversation that rosa parks was an easily identifiable and relatable historical figure that you can relate to.

Cool story...

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Cool story...

So making that assumption is racist? More or less racist than calling anyone voting for trump a racist?

 

[dviss1]

So making that assumption is racist? More or less racist than calling anyone voting for trump a racist?

No one said that if you want to vote for Trump you're racist. I've never said that. What are you getting that notion from? My thread said that racists love Trump. They do.

I said cool story because I don't believe a word of it.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

No one said that if you want to vote for Trump you're racist. I've never said that. What are you getting that notion from? My thread said that racists love Trump. They do.

I said cool story because I don't believe a word of it.

Hahahahaha you are fun man.

 

[dviss1]

Hahahahaha you are fun man.

Wait till you get a few drinks in me!