RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 12, 2021 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2021 at 10:42 am by Brian37.)
(October 12, 2021 at 10:24 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sin taxes. Definitely think those should be precisely zero dollars.
What does "sin" which is a bullshit superstitious word in any case, have to do with it?
Nobody likes to pay taxes on anything, be it food, or booze, or property, or income.
It is a matter of millionaires and billionaires bitching about paying more, which they can afford. Which is why it is annoying as hell to listen to someone in the middle and working class bitch about taxes on the things they buy, when between the tax and what the producer charges, cant see that the tax on that item is minute compared to what the producer charges.
(October 12, 2021 at 9:10 am)Spongebob Wrote: I believe that Brian has a point, though it gets buried in his strange way of presentation. Yes, conservatives generally want lower taxes and some want zero tax though that makes absolutely no sense economically. But I think Brian is also getting to the point that conservatives/Republicans have totally missed the magicians hand reaching into their pockets this past half century, and that is corporate greed. Minorities, Democrats and immigrants are seen as the demons to them because that's what Republicans and Christians want them to believe. In fact, income tax rates have remained fairly steady. Increases have come more at the state and local level and in the form of sales taxes and most of those communities are run by Republicans. I live in a town where $50,000 pickup trucks outnumber people, yet every one of those truck owners would bitch and complain about how the government has robbed them of their wealth. Huh?
And I agree with OLB, gas taxes are actually a good thing as they help keep pressure on people to buy more efficient automobiles and they provide funds for roads. I don't mind tobacco taxes because I don't smoke but I sure would buy more whiskey if the price was a wee bit lower.
^^^^^^^ So much this.
Taxes are not evil by any stretch. If it were not for taxes we would not have police, fire departments, military or public schools.
The only argument to be made is how much to tax, whom to tax. Right now, and for the past 40 years for that matter, the corporate giants and their CEOs are the real welfare queens.
