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How government helps the 1 percent

A very good opinion piece from WaPo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z3

If only we could get the 1% to each spend another million or so a year of ciigs and liquor, we might get their contribution up to an even 6%.

Or we might work the income tax rules just a little....

Any questions as to why the Republicans are always for consumption taxes and against income taxes?

I'll be a against state income tax until I move to a state with one.

The fix is commonly referred to as the flat tax. This crap will continue as long as lobbyists have access to politicians, and politicians have access to a tax code that allows them to wield political power.

The fix is a true progressive tax with no loopholes.

It is simply morally wrong to have a minimum wage worker paying the same percentage of his or her income in taxes as a billionaire hedge fund mogul.

Maybe in an ideal world, but this isn't an ideal world. As long as we have a tax code that allows political types to mess with it at the behest of lobbyists, we will continue to have the concerns that are cited in the OP.

That's just a typical right wing cop-out.

We don't need an ideal world. All we need is a good progressive Democrat like FDR in the White House and Democratic majorities in congress like he had in the 1930's.

Concur.

Hmmm, not a fan of Citizens United, eh Mike? :rolleyes:

Nah. There's not a politician or political party alive who won't tweak the tax code for their own electoral benefit. Therein lies the rub.