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[opebo]

Right-wing fantasy.  Dude, the US already has absurdly, dangerously low tax rates - they can't go any lower without complete collapse and chaos.

[opebo]

Right-wing fantasy.  Dude, the US already has absurdly, dangerously low tax rates - they can't go any lower without complete collapse and chaos.

We have a spending problem, not a taxation problem. We need to cut spending, not hike taxes.

That's just nonsense, Politico - spending is insignificant, both in historical terms and compared to other countries.  It is a historical fact that tax rates used to be 90%, and the economy was much better then.  Your right-wing fantasy is completely belied by the record.

[opebo]

About the only people who really want taxes to go up are those who pay little or no taxes.

Current tax rates are roughly a happy medium between the lowest point of the '80s and the highest point of the '90s.

Politico, the rates in the 1990s were far, far too low, and much lower than (roughly half) they were during the era of responsible economic policy (1933-1981).

And obviously the vampiric class don't want to have their free money cut off, while those the 99% who toil for them (and incidentally do pay taxes through payroll and sales taxes) might like to see their master's taxes go up.

[opebo]

Just think of all that GDP and all those miserable toiling bastards.  Why can't we just voluntarily go extinct?

[opebo]

Just think of all that GDP and all those miserable toiling bastards.  Why can't we just voluntarily go extinct?

We're not eating Soylent Green yet, so reproduction can't be all that bad at this point. Of course, the type of hedonists who insist upon forcing their pathetic attitude/lifestyle upon everybody else will say otherwise...

'Hedonists'?  What?  Human life is pain and suffering, why keep repeating it?