(03-28-2019 10:38 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(03-28-2019 10:21 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(03-28-2019 10:18 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(03-28-2019 10:11 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  And I don't believe in starving the goose - that's a grosse mischaracterization of my stance. I believe that taxation and responsible appropriation allows us to tackle massive problems that are not going to be profitable for private industries to handle. Tell me how exactly you convince private industry to pay for a sea wall to protect lower Manhattan? Sometimes, you need a non-profit motivated entity to come in and provide services that rely on fees from all citizens.

lad, you are correct that it might mischaracterize *your* POV.

It does *not* mischaracterize the POV of more (much, much more) than a generous proportion of progressives in this nation, who view the taxation system as a means for 'social equalization' (or somefink like that....)

I dont think you can deny that.

But even then, it isn't starving the goose - no one is asking for 100% taxation, or anywhere close to that. It would be akin to me saying OO's approach is fattening the goose, as opposed to just feeding it.

It doesnt take 100% to starve the goose. Nice try though.

My suggestion is that when you decide to fkin opine on what the proper corporate or individual rate is, that you actually try to do more than be a W-2 when you proffer those opinions.

So where do you put the cut off then for when taxation becomes starvation? Is it different for corporations than it is for individuals?

My suggestion is that when you decide to fkin opine on what the proper corporate or individual rate is, you provide some numbers to back up your fkin opine.

Or how bout one better, when you decide to fkn opine about a comment someone makes, you actually respond to their comment - I never once stated what I felt the proper corporate or individual rate is, yet you seem to think I've stated my opinion about that up above. My comment was that I don't believe that simply increasing taxes is enough to say that it's starving anything.