Here's an Idea! Let's NOT TAX INCOME OVER $1mil Per Year....

[Blackhatjack]

Repubs are fond of pointing out that taxpayers who work hard and earn millions of dollars in income should get tax cuts so that they can keep their earnings tax free.

I think we should agree with them....

Instead of having them pay income tax on those earnings like the rest of us taxpayers, let's just send them individual bills for military defense, city-county-state-federal police protection, fire departments, business promotion expenses, road building and maintence, water purification/sewer plant construction, and every other cost that is related to providing them with a positive, secure environment in which they are allowed to earn their millions.

If we did, they would be begging and pleading to go back to paying income taxes(with all their deductions intact)....

[deadmessengers]

1. I love it, but I don't think it goes far enough!

Let's not forget that not only does that positive secure environment allow them to earn their millions, but it also allows them to keep their millions (protection from theft, fraud, etc), and also the fact that the stability of our government is the only thing that makes their millions valuable in the first place (remember that our currency is entirely by fiat - our money is valuable simply because our government says it is, and for no other reason)

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. You've struck upon the real agenda of the plutocracy.

They don't want to give up the tax system or government at all. They want to rig the game so that it benefits them to the utmost. They want to externalize all the risk while privatizing the profits.

[No Elephants]

3. They don't use the infrastructure and environment only for earning. They use them

to indulge themselves as well. Yachts, airplanes, limousines, etc. Comparing the use of infrastructure and the carbon footprint of a poor person and a wealthy person would no doubt amaze us. I am not against the wealthy, but making them pay for at least some of what they use seems eminently fair. I am sorry that Obama puts in terms of the wealthy paying more taxes because they can afford to. That is a transfer of wealth argument and exposes him to charges of socialism. That is not how I see it AT ALL.

[lonestarnot]

4. Sounds like very reasonable!

K & R!

[LeftishBrit]

5. Very good point!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. They sorta already do that in a lot of red states.

My folks lived in Arizona for a while, and there were lower income taxes, sure, but there were fees on just about friggin everything. They wound up paying more in taxes and fees in AZ than so-called "Taxachusetts". Not to mention that their services sucked because they still lacked revenue.