Jubbergun wrote:
Actually, GE and people like me are both fucking you, you just choose not to let me fucking you over bother you.
It's hard to look at some rich guy and tell him he's not "paying his fair share" when most of what I paid in taxes comes back to me at the end of a fiscal year. Then again, taxes are written for the rich by the rich, and all the loopholes and shit take a lot of the sting away. The way they fuck us all is with embedded taxation, where they tax businesses, who just build the cost of those taxes into the goods and services we all buy. Whenever a politician says "corporations aren't paying their fair share," what they really mean is "you fuckers aren't handing over enough of your loot, so we're going to take more, but hide it from and make you root for us doing it by getting Microsoft and Coke to collect it for us."
Our tax system is a bullshit house of cards full of hidden passageways and trap doors. The fucking shell game needs to stop.
Your Pal,
Jubber
Fair points. And for the record, it pisses me off just as much if I'm paying more in taxes than a Billion dollar company like GE...for sure. Huge corporations getting away with paying zero taxes is fucking infuriating.
However, in terms of how Businesses are taxed, the one's that hire people to figure out loop holes I guess are fine...but the one's (like the business I work for and do the books for) that do everything "by the book" end up paying quite a bit in taxes each year. Not to mention, entrepreneurs are taxed absurdly. It's interesting because we are a company that is actually hiring new employees (you know, creating jobs.). Being taxed so much increases our expenses, and therefore prevents us from hiring as many people as we could. In terms of entrepreneurs getting taxed like crazy...it's sort of anti-capitalism/free-market/"American Dream" What I mean is, if you are smart, come up with a great business etc. all of a sudden Uncle Sam can go "oh yeah, we'll take a ton of that extra money you work your ass off for...we're gonna use it on bombs, Social Security, and Medicare (you know, to help a majority of people who aren't working)"
I guess to me, it's just funny how so many people want to solve America's financial problems by taxing the rich even more than they are already taxed.
Put it this way Jubber, if you started a restaurant, and the restaurant became hugely popular and you started making some serious money - you'd start getting taxed out the ass. Then, when people (who may not even be working...or even trying to find work) say things like "raise taxes on the rich, they can afford it" wouldn't it piss you off? Considering you were the one who came up with the great restaurant idea, and worked countless hours to make it happen and be successful?
