Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-25012056-20161204190758

Eoros wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote:

Eoros wrote: Do you mean to say we should take money away from rich people, Grievous? That's a bit oversimplified, but in essence. I think that taxes should be raised on those that can afford it, and the rich can. It wouldn't be extreme - they would still have plenty of money. But as they have the more money, it's only logical that they take a larger part to help those that don't.

Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that all rich people suck and should be laid low. I just think they should play a bigger role in helping society.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 16:41, December 4, 2016 (UTC) Millionaires have 56% of their salary taken away by the federal government already. They don't need to lose 70% of their income to the feds who will just use it for their own ends, most likely. Democrats work like this, folks.

And rich people are some of the top contributors to society. Most of them are rich because they have businesses. And what do those businesses do? They hire people. And get other people rich. That's the ultimate goal of capitalism: to make better products at a lower price, so people will buy your stuff, increasing your wealth and your employees's wealth, and making the consumber's life better. So the rich people are the ones acutally doing things in the world, to put it bluntly.

No, many really aren't. Instead, they're using their business for their own gain and exploiting their workers. Some of the rich may truly be doing their part, which is great; but many ore of their number are out only for their own benefit. Look at Trump. He's gotten rich because he dodges taxes, rips people off, and cons families out of their homes. He's spent his career giving nothing good to society.

At any rate, using tax money for one's own needs quite frankly isn't how this works. It's easy enough to say it, to believe it, or to see it among the other tabloid-grade stories on Fox News, but it would take a far larger conspiracy than just the Democratic Party. The government could very easily use tax revenue to help people, instead of funding a far larger military than we need or bailing out the criminals at Wall Street.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 19:07, December 4, 2016 (UTC)