RCA wrote:
I posted this because I agree that the last people who should be up in arms are those being taxed. It is a 3% hike but their wealth has grow and for the other 95% it hasn't and some of the things said are ridiculous. You respond by ridiculing Bill Maher instead of posting how you feel about the comments. I haven't seen all his stuff so to be honest I have no idea why so many are up in arms but either way, why would you post unless it was relevant. It seemed like you were just babbling on about nothing.
You posted something from the reigning king of being a d!ck. Even to his fans and supporters he's known to be highly polarizing. To not expect responses critical of him in general is foolish. Beyond that, you took the extra step of making false assumptions about people you don't really know in some recoiled defensive attempt at eloquence.
As for the actual tax matter. It's all rhetoric. Meaningless, divisive, pompous rhetoric. He is pretty much everything he accuses everyone else of being, i.e. a "useless schmuck who contributes absolutely nothing to society " and gets paid for being such.
The wealthy already contribute more to the financial underpinning of society than anyone else, and honestly, that whole redistribution of wealth thing was tried, and it didn't work out so well. He blames trillion dollar deficits on rich people paying taxes, when the federal gov't just gave the state of MA a couple million bucks for actually LOWERING their educational standards to conform with federal standards for public schools. We now teach things at later years because it makes the rest of the country look bad when we don't. We're getting federal grant money to do that. That's some good spending right there.
Tax what you want, it really doesn't matter. To whine about the whiners wining is in and of itself, whining. When investment curtails because the money is being taken away to feed "overworked" social programs giving handouts to people, job growth will stall (as if it hasn't already) and we can go right back to overworking our newly liberated free lunches with a new line of people who just lost out on the job market and wind up right back where we started. Plinking a tax rate up and down a half a point isn't going to make that better or worse. Modern economic systems are too self correcting to have their balances swayed by such meaningless gestures.
