People who make 2 million a year in income should be paying 1 million in taxes to pay for all the cost of maintaining the economic infrastructure that allows them to make all that money. Roads and bridges that delivery trucks run on cost money. That Fed-Ex plane delivery takes off and lands on expensive runways and fly through airspace kept in order by air traffic controller that have to be paid and radar system that cost money.
You think highways and bridges are FREE? You think the Air Force that keep the air space above the US free of foreign fighter planes are FREE?
So a neurosurgeon who makes 2 million dollars a year takes up more bridges and roads than anyone else? So for all of their training and 80 hour work weeks, they should be taxed at progressively higher rates than anyone else? The longer hours they work, the more of that money should be money they are just giving to the government? bollocks. Look, the trucks and gas they used gets taxed. The FedEx planes and fuel gets taxed...it all gets taxed....they're generating jobs and incomes. you make the rich seem evil and greedy. some of the ones at the top actually worked and sacrificed, then they get screwed...they work for the government and are taxed more of their work day just because they happen to be more successful.
I never said they were. everyone uses these infrastructures. from public transportation to roads and bridges. I don't know how you can extrapolate that based on one's income they personally utilize more infrastructure than others.
IF... and that's a BIG IF... you are in the top tax bracket, which somewhere around a couple million a year in income.
I have never seen numbers showing that higher income earners use more public infrastructure and programs more than low income workers. But I always hear people bring it up to try to convince others that upper tax bracket rates should increase. Thinking of a few public programs and infrastructure: Where I live, way more low income individuals use public transportation than higher income earners. Low income earners get welfare Low income earners get food stamps Low income earners use public attorneys more than rich people, who use private attorneys I'd be interested to see somebody intelligent break this down, not WWBRoyD.
Neorosurgeons don't even make a million. Their malpractice insurace costs too much. The majority of the people making 2 million + a year don't earn that money. They sit on their ass and collect that income from interest/dividends from their trust accounts.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Dude, you are arguing on here, and you have ABSOLUTELY NO idea what you are talking about. How old are you? Have you ever even paid taxes? It really is amazing that you have ZERO shame in arguing about something that you are so incredibly wrong about. The top Federal tax bracket starts at $357k.
They could gross 1-2 million, then get taxed AND have to pay their malpractice insurance. Even some oral surgeons make over $1million. I know doctors that make over $5 million a year and others and they hardly sit on their ass and collect dividen interest from their trust accounts. Partners at law firms make in the 7 figure range. Doctors who run and manage multiple clinics make that and more. small business owners can make that much. restaurant owners. But I guess its a bunch of stoned, trust fund babies that live off the suffering of others that make the big bucks eh? Look, the only people that make good money aren't CEOs of big multi-nationanl corporations.
You're got nothing to defend your stated opinion. You have nothing but personal insults to fling. Conservatives have a way of never seeing evidence that inconvenient for them to see even when it's waived in their face.
