Republicans and taxes: Is Bush fair to you ALL?

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David S and John Dibble- I doubt nomorelies can answer you since he has been banned from the forum!

He's back as MissCatholic.

[opebo]

As far as "fair share" goes it depends how "fair share" is defined.

A Socialist viewpoint is that the although the top 10% pay 65% of federal income taxes, while the bottom 50% pay 4% this doesn't mean that the top 10% are paying more than their "fair share" (or that the bottom 50% are paying less than their "fair share") because the top 10% have (a hell of a lot) more money than the bottom 50% and as a result should pay more than the bottom 50% do.
So a Socialist would define a "fair share" more by an ability to pay (and contribute to society/infastructure/whatever) than by x pays x so x should get x.
Naturally, re-distribution of wealth comes into this (a lot), as money raised in taxes is used on government programmes to reduce poverty, on infastructure and so on.

I think this is American liberalism, Keyensian Capitalism, 'Social Democracy', or something else, but not Socialism.

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I think this is the 'Socialist' viewpoint, not Communist.  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc.

Anyway it doesn't sound like that bad an idea, and the top 10% should take heed and consider doing a little redistribution to avoid the Revolution.

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Obviously we would produce another Pinochet and take care of those socialists, right opebo? I mean, you can only push us owning classers so far...

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David S and John Dibble- I doubt nomorelies can answer you since he has been banned from the forum!

LOL Well somebody un-ban him so we can chew the hell out of him.

BTW How did he get banned?

[opebo]

Obviously we would produce another Pinochet and take care of those socialists, right opebo? I mean, you can only push us owning classers so far...

Correct.  And by the same token the owning class should be aware of the dangers of pushing the working class too far.  Which is why I advocate the moderate compromise of liberal Keyensian redistributionist capitalism, and not socialism.