[Barry the Sprout]

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Originally posted by Magness:
So you do favor screwing the rich!!! How typically liberal!!! Regardless of what side of the big pond people are on, it seems that all liberals have a Robin Hood complex ... i.e. steal from the rich to give to the poor. But then again, descrimination is just fine and dandy if it's a rich person getting screwed!!! (No, I'm not rich. This is simply honest ideolgical anger.) Typical political correctness. It's ok to be bigoted so long as it's against one of descrimination-approved groups, as determined by the high and mighty, best and brightest, liberal intelligensia!!!

IMHO there's one and only one fair method of taxation. A flat income tax with no deductions!!! If I make 10x more than another person, then I should be paying 10x more in total dollars (or pounds). But the rate should remain the same!!! If I made 10x more than you then I would pay 10x more in taxes.
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Why are they rich Magness? Did they work hard for it? Some did but most didn't. Most of the super rich (not middle class homeowners or white coller workers or anything like that) are as rich as they are off the backs of other people.

That is not a manifesto point, not a persuasion. Just a fact. Companies work by skimming little bits off the product of labour of all who work for them. They drive down labour costs for everyone, whether you are in a sweatshop or at a desk in Wall Street. They attempt to produce as much as they can for as little as possible and then take the profits.

The reason why I "bash the rich" is that they bash the rest of us! The super rich of our society have taken from the vast majority of people in order to become so. Taxing them more makes them give a little bit back. They still have a lot of money which they earned through the labour of others, so I don't think society has cheated them too much to be honest.