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The bit that you're missing out on (and this has nothing to do with your IMG status), is that its immoral to legislate the right of someone else to the money that you earned. Want to make more money? Good, work more. Want to make more money and give it away because somebody else said you "had to"? - Doesn't (and shouldn't) work that way. I busted my @ss to enjoy the money that I earn and the life that I live. I don't "owe" it to anyone else because they "can't have the same things".
To quote Veers (and I love saying this to people when "politics" breaks out at the pub): "The government is not the fairness nanny."
If I want to give my money away to a charitable organization; I can do that... but I will not be mandated to do that.
I only said that I was an IMG to make it clear that I might not fully understand American politics or your tax system.
So essentially what you're saying is that we should abolish the taxation system. Good lets do that. No more roads, schools, hospitals, oh and certainly no more money to fund the countless wars that have been created to make more money that goes to the 1%. Right?
What Americans have forgotten (or so it seems) is that governments take tax money to provide services to the people that elected them. What do you get from your government as an American? Free housing? You wish. Free eduction? This post wouldn't exist if that were half true. Free healthcare? *insert joke*
You have the opportunity, for the first time in our lifetimes, to elect someone that isn't owned by wall street or big corporations, who wants to level out the playing field in terms of income tax, who wants to provide your people with free education so that your kids don't graduate as doctors with a 300k debt that'll cripple them for 5-10 years after they graduate, who wants to provide people with affordable healthcare so that they wouldn't have to sell a kidney on the black market to pay for the cost of an emergency room visit. Yeah Sanders is one big communist a**hole for wanting to do that. Increasing income tax by 4% isn't really going to make you poor now is it? You're still going to enjoy the money you're going to get, which isn't really going to be affected that much. So you make 190k instead of 200k after tax. Those 800 dollars a month are sure going to cripple your investment opportunities. No. It won't actually make a big difference. Income tax in the US isn't more than 50% of income like in some european countries.
I honestly don't understand why people would rather put their trust in the same c*nts on wall street (hilary) that screwed you, AND THE ENTIRE WORLD, over in 08, over someone who (at least seems to be) is a genuine a politician as I'll ever see.
I dunno to me it seems straight forward. Am I missing something that isn't being said on the news?
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