01-26-2019, 07:53 AM
PaulW,
First of all, I think government can do a lot of good things that private interests can't or won't. Taxes can be good.
Second, just because people are hypothetically improving their circumstances doesn't mean tax rates should automatically go up.
Third, we both know many jobs being created are lower level service jobs, and most of the employed are working harder for less. Those are the people that would bear the brunt of the fuel/registration/tax hikes.
Please bring back the higher marginal tax rates, instead of working the dwindling middle class to death. Rockefeller made his fortune under a 90% top marginal rate!
ETA: most people in my neighborhood have to drive "gas guzzlers" because they live on unpaved roads. They also put a lot of gas into generators and still pay the fuel tax. They are not rich.
First of all, I think government can do a lot of good things that private interests can't or won't. Taxes can be good.
Second, just because people are hypothetically improving their circumstances doesn't mean tax rates should automatically go up.
Third, we both know many jobs being created are lower level service jobs, and most of the employed are working harder for less. Those are the people that would bear the brunt of the fuel/registration/tax hikes.
Please bring back the higher marginal tax rates, instead of working the dwindling middle class to death. Rockefeller made his fortune under a 90% top marginal rate!
ETA: most people in my neighborhood have to drive "gas guzzlers" because they live on unpaved roads. They also put a lot of gas into generators and still pay the fuel tax. They are not rich.