[ExI] rugged individualists

[Thirdeye Of Eris]

two words, flat tax


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:59 PM, GLivick <glivick at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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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and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the
acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to
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responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and
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