Someone's gotta pay for the Iraq War, and it sure as hell isn't going to be the uber-wealthy. Instead, they get special tax cuts for being so special. I mean, everyone knows that God shows His favorites by making them rich, so it would just be totally wrong to make them pay for God's blessings. It would be punishing them for things that weren't their fault, you know?
The working poor can only pay through indirect means, like cutting programs that help them make ends meet. Check. Still, we need more money to pay for the Goldy tax cuts and Iraq War. OK, squeezing the middle class will shake out a few more pennies. Who does that leave? Oh, the self-employed! Yay!
Seriously, I don't mind paying my fair share in taxes. As a person who has seen the benefits of an excellent public education, tax write-offs on owning a home, and other general good fortune, I believe it is my responsibility to support the same opportunities for other people. My commitment extends, however, to all classes. It strikes me as insanely unfair that I am for some reason paying a higher share of my earnings than people who made 10 or even 100 times more than I did. Last night I calculated how much I managed to eke out this year (and was impressed that my high priced consulting gigs yielded about 30G! Go me!) and then Husband informed me that 60% of that is going to taxes because of FICA.*
I understand that people like Paris Hilton need their hard earned money in ways that I don't, and that their valuable contributions to society's entertainment via porn tapes leaked to the internet completely dwarf anything I might be doing. But is it not a little fucked up that their tax rate is about half of mine? I guess I'll need to screw some little people over so that I may earn God's favor and exempt myself from taxes. Better luck to us all next year.
*Our income disparity does not help my situation. Hello, marriage tax penalty, which gives me a double whammy!
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argh!
ReplyDelete(but go you on the independent consulting!)
Last year was the first year I had to pay taxes as a self employed person, and I was shocked and horrified by how much money the government took from me. You'd think we would be rewarded for our entrepreneurship, rather than shafted by the IRS.
ReplyDeleteBut I suppose you're right, Britney Spears obviously needs her money more than I do. And I can support so many great social programs with my taxes, like the war in Iraq.
Flat tax is where it's at. Not only do the crazy rich folks pay less, they can afford fancy pants accountants to find loop holes for the, so they can pay even less! Boo!
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want to pay taxes, you should get rich, you little socialist.
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