<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (2Dogs @ Mar 1 2009, 09:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Put a name on a pig and it is still a pig.[/b]
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (usetacould @ Mar 1 2009, 09:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
No, it is you who don&#39;t understand. We want less federal government as it was intended by the constitution, and the liberal out of our wallet.[/b]
You are now talking about a entirely different subject but one that you two still need to understand the difference in Regressive taxes and Progressive to rationally discuss. Maybe this will help.



http://www.psnw.com/~bashford/taxation.html

Progressive taxes (such as income taxes) pay mostly for Rich Boy toys: Desert Storm, Cold War, gunboat diplomacy, the Fed&#39;s infinite labor pool (WANTED: unemployment) and any related poverty, NAFTA, GAT, free trade agreements, interstate freeways, National Parks, FBI, CIA, a hot-shot standing military, etc. And regressive taxes: (mostly local sales taxes and fees) go for Poor Boy toys: local roads, hospitals, schools, local parks, libraries, cops, city/county councils, fire fighting, etc.

If "toys" sounds too flippant, feel free to swap with a term that rings true for you, such as "tools of the trade", or "economic infrastructures."

To oversimplify a bit, a carpenter does not require the Rich Boy toys, and the CEO of GM does not require the Poor Boy toys. And progressive (mostly federal income) taxes soak the rich, regressive (mostly local sales) taxes soak the poor.

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YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS CONCEPT TO DISCUSS TAXES. It is why Republicans want to ONLY discuss Income Taxes. It is an incomplete discussion, one that hides their Soak the Poor agenda. Discussing REGRESSIVE taxes are as Paul Harvey would say "And Now for the rest of the story" God rest his soul.