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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't need Mitt Romney's "help".
Neither does anyone else. What is needed is to get govt. to cut spending. And to get govt. to stop hindering businesss and threatening tax hikes and allowing companies to drill for oil to help create jobs, .lower costs and get the economy rolling again. If you don't understand that...then it's obvious that YOU are failing miserably.
As for me failing miserably...that has never, and will never happen.
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Taxes are lower than during the Clinton administration, which happens to be the last time Americans, as a whole, really felt prosperous. Everybody says businesses are being hindered yet everyday you turn around and there is another story about a company doing something illegally for years with nobody noticing. Companies do not base hiring decisions based on taxes but rather their needs. If they're expanding and need to hire 10 people to keep up with demand they aren't going to say "gee, taxes are too high, so I'm not going to hire them."
As a small business owner, after deductions I pay 22 cents on every dollar to some government agency. I can afford to pay more. Mitt pays almost 50% less than me and cannot stop talking about lowering taxes.
I don't give a shit if he pays more than me per year. He also has a couple hundred of million at his disposal. I will gladly take $300,000,000 off his hands and pay $66,000,000 in taxes just like I gladly pay the same 22% on what he considers chump change.
Even with a flat tax at 15% he'd still pay more than I would so the argument of "I pay more" doesn't really stand as every realistic proposal out there calls for those with more paying more.
Tax everybody at a 15% consumption rate and call it a day. Reward for savings. Rewarding savings could also affect business but I bet nobody would be bitching then.