Raise Taxes

[MadBadger]

Thats my solution for just about every budget crisis everywhere. Sound simple? Well, it is.

[Xenotime]

1. K+R!!! Start with the rich and obcenely wealthy

[RKP5637]

3. That's what I told a republican. His comment, they will all leave the US and

take all their money with them. My comment, F it. We would be better without them. He had no answer back.

[Xenotime]

4. Good for you! They arguements are usually shallow and not thought out.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Where are they gonna go?

As bad as they talk about the US, they speak even worse about everywhere else. Socialist Europe? Communist China? Mexico? Canada (the horror!)?

Fuck them. They won't go any damn where. Tax them till it hurts.

[RKP5637]

9. That's what I say too, "Tax them till it hurts." It's one huge bluff IMO. n/t

[demosincebirth]

11. Where would they go? Europe, Japan? They all have much higher tax rates than the U.S>

[demosincebirth]

12. I'm for a 10-20% tax rate for every one except those making under

35,000 a years with families

[RKP5637]

13. Exactly, it's a pure BS bluff. ... but they think they can fake it by inane

threats - typical republican way.

[RKP5637]

2. Toooo radical an idea, that doesn't fit the everything for free and no taxes equation in

la la America.

[damntexdem]

5. Yes, and start by reversing the tax cuts for the rich.

And fully revitalize the so-called "death tax" -- estate taxes are our friends.

[joquan]

7. Simple and perfect, just the way i like it!

[eleny]

8. It's the grownup solution

[hack89]

10. It will only work if government is reformed

the biggest obstacle to more taxes is the common perception that the government just wastes it. High taxes are tolerated in Europe because it is clear what they get for their money. Not so in most American states - Rhode Island, where I live, has a well deserved reputation for corruption, waste and cronyism. There is no way anyone can argue that raising taxes is the only way to solve our problems.

[pansypoo53219]

14. clinton did it. tax the rich

EISENHOWER did it. and so did REAGAN.