Reply #37: They ARE paying their taxes.....you got this all wrong

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Being patriotic has nothing to do with any of this.

The majority of people will continue to pay the same relative amount in taxes. It is the SMALL MINORITY who will be paying LESS AND LESS IN TAXES.

It is the upper few percent that are gaining.
Your taxes and my taxes aren't going to change that much.
They didn't even change that much during Clinton. IT WAS THE UPPER ESCHELON THAT GOT HIT DURING CLINTON, NOT THE AVERAGE PERSON.

I'm going to simplify this for you and then please give it some serious thought. Rummy, Rove, and all the other dumb ass Reaganites are out to cut taxes so the rich can take more money. The upper 1% now controls 50 trillion in taxes and with money and power they will be able to exploit the middle class as a "purchasing class" and not an "ownership class".

In their ideal model, you will simply live on credit, work until you drop, and own nothing....therefore have no power in key decision making.

The way things are working now, your taxes are not going to be raised significantly one way or the other. The only thing which is happening is that as less and less revenues come in with tax breaks to the rich, the country goes more and more in debt....AND the country has less and less available for relevant services and investments. Because the country is more and more in debt, your INTEREST PAYMENTS each year in your federal income taxes will progressively INCREASE. As they increase, less and less of your taxes will go to any relevant services. Your real estate taxes will go up. Your costs for health care and everything else will go up.

Your country is not investing in its middle class or relevant technologies/solutions that will allow us to compete in the future global market. Our standard of living is now #3 in the world and will drop further each year the repukes are in power.

What you have to do is change the mantra of "paying taxes" from getting ripped off to one of smart investing and then you'll have something. Forget the patriotic idea...it's simply smart business.