Originally Posted by 732002

1. No, deficit spending would be at least one other.

2. No, it is the effect most overlooked and/or denied.

3. Giving us $2k the same as cutting our taxes $2K?
Neither would create prosperity.

Originally Posted by Jim B.

My remark was:

There are people in the "Tea Party" that want no tax and no government.

Perhaps you could clarify whether that meant "all".

I never even implied that the "perspective is widespread".

But yes some of them DO believe it as I have stated.

In fact, the County of Nevada, where I reside, is said to be the actual birthplace of the Tea Party movement.

There is no shortage of the caterwauling about tax and government in this area.

Originally Posted by jcyuhn

Stumbled across this link today. It attempts to capture the total tax burden on each quintile looking at all taxes imposed at all levels of government: federal income tax, payroll tax, state income tax, local taxes, etc.

Originally Posted by jcyuhn

Interesting choice of the word lenient. Is there a connotation in your statement that high tax rates exist to punish high incomes?

Are you aware the current top tax rates of 36% and 39% are the Clinton rates? At this point in time, going back to the 1990s entails massive tax increases on the middle and lower classes, both of whom are paying far less than at anytime in recent history.

I was rather hoping you would pull a number out of the air so that we could get a feeling for just what percentage of a mans labor, in your world view, the government is entitled to confiscate; in other words the most that you think is "fair."