Petros
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Communism has been given plenty of chances. Let's try a market with less government involvement for once.
So you're saying...rich people pay only 8% of taxes and poor people pay 92%? How does that happen when they're taxed 40%?Melon said:What the hell are you talking about? In the 1950s, corporations paid 90% of the tax base in the U.S. Nowadays, they pay 8% of the tax base.
Stop being so hyperbolic. It stops when they pay the same percentage as the poor.melon said:Stop being so hyperbolic. Where do the tax cuts stop? Until rich people pay no taxes at all?
Go grab your lawyer or call the cops if it's illegal.Melon said:Hell...a lot of them already do this with illegal tax shelters.
How crude.Melon said:Bite me, dumb ass.
They won't once big Cali businesses move there The reason CA generates more wealth than it eats? Big corporations. Not less people on welfare. There is more money given to government program recipients than any southern state.Melon said:You know, you have a point here. What's also lost is that the wealth of the "Blue States" also fund most federal government, and "low tax" states like most of the South actually consume more federal dollars than they generate.
I re-emphasize: It's not the welfare recipients in California that generate its wealth; it's the big businesses that are moving in droves because the government is squeezing the blood out of them.Melon said:I mean, if we're going to give these states money that they haven't earned,
There are more lazy people in CA than in most of the south, believe me. The only reason it stays afloat is the businesses that are moving away.Melon said:what's their incentive to get off of their ass and do something about it? Welfare only generates laziness, right?
Most businesses feel the same way. That's why they hate it here, too.melon said:Oh and I nearly forgot: your potential decade-long or more droughts and your high energy consumption that could lead to blackouts. California can die of dehydration in the dark before I ever want to give one red cent to that state ever again.
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