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Originally Posted by spdrun
OK, if you're netting $1 million a year and have to pay $50k more in tax, you'll likely survive. This isn't a tax on gross receipts.
But personally, I'd support a return to Clinton-era status quo for ALL citizens. End the wars, even if it means throwing our allies in the Middle East under the bus and watching them die in agony. Raise taxes to pre-Dubya levels.
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By that logic, you should be punished more for stealing $100 from me than $10 million from Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. They will survive better than with that than my loss.
Easy to say until you ask them to do things for you that you don't want to do yourself. At which point, I can tell you to "Go fawk yourself". IIRC, a few years back, Israel was already trying to lessen it's dependence on US money. Why? So they can more easily tell you to jump in the lake. Take Darfur for instance. We don't really care if they can live or die. I wouldn't care about any ally we have either if we can be sure that we can forever do without them. As a drug dealer, I would be loathe to simply stop selling you dope and risk that you go to rehab and get clean. I would extend you credit, take a small hit today to keep you addicted that I may make more tomorrow. If I suddenly say "No credit. No cash, no dope" you might suffer but you might go to rehab and not need me in the future.