NO! I WANT MORE TAXES!!! (serious) I would rather make only 30k a year than 40k a year after taxes, if that means someone else only gets 300k instead of 400k because of taxes. also, just responding to the thread: I'm pretty sure "all-time high" would be the middle ages or any time of monarchies... Unless you meant all time high in the us...
I would be happy for both of them. The problem is that the government spends more money than it would take in if Harry brought home 10 grand a year and Sally took home 50 grand a year. Even if their gross figures were what you started with. I would rather we decide as a nation what crap we are going to pay for and then figure out how to tax everyone equally to make it happen. If the poorer of us figured out that we couldn't pay our rent AND Directv bill then a large corporation might get less of our income. If the large corporations figure out a way to get us suckers to buy their stuff, that is our problem. Nobody forces unemployed or people who live under the poverty line to get a damn cell phone. We give the money to them because we want to. Maybe that is our problem too, we spend our disposable income (if we have it) on something that will NEVER pay us back. That money is gone. The thing is, many of us have been happy to ride along and get the newest gadgets to make our current lives fun. We didn't care if we don't save for our retirement. Now people are finding that they won't get to work full time up until that point and the shit is hitting the fan. I go on car websites a TON and it never ends with people who have to sell all their stuff because they are out of work for two months. Maybe they shouldn't have bought an extra 10 thousand dollar car as a play toy if they don't have a nest egg???????? PS...then they get pissed that they can't sell it for what they paid for it because everyone else is in the same boat!
