[ExI] rugged individualists

[GLivick]

Taxes are only onerous to those who pay them.  I wonder who they could 
be?  Certainly not the people who make the most money, say the top 5%, 
who are all rich and pay NO taxes (everyone knows that), what with all 
the tax dodges they have and everything.  It's not fair, those people 
just got lucky and landed good jobs, or somehow started some ridiculous 
business that made them rich off our backs.  They should have to pay 
some of the tax burden.  I'm thinking along the lines of, say, most of 
it.  To start, those rich dummies who have employees working for next to 
nothing should at least pay half of all the money that goes into the 
Social Security Trust (now THERE's a word) Fund.  We should also get 
them to pay all the money it takes to fund unemployment insurance, 
since, if it wasn't for them employing people to begin with, there 
wouldn't be any anybody to become unemployed.  The way I see it, it's 
all their fault, those rich, lazy, lucky bastards!

Really, I'm not just being snotty, I'm serious!!!

FutureMan



On 7/14/2011 4:44 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> On 7/14/2011 5:50 PM, David Lubkin wrote:
>> as the sole owner of a corporation that has hired me, I am
>> required to pay into the unemployment fund and am prohibited
>> from collecting from it.
>
>  This is certainly inequitable, but I gather that (in TX at least, and 
> perhaps elewhere) the size of the tax depends on how many claims have 
> been made by previous employees, and since you have not claimed 
> against yourself I surmise that this tax might be a small portion of 
> one percent. Annoying, and arguably unjust, but perhaps not overly 
> onerous?
>
> Damien Broderick
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