Rant - 2011/08/01

argument: if you tax the employers they will just pass the costs down to the customers who are pretty undeniably, to a considerable degree, employees but if you tax the employees they will just request more money in wages from their employers who will raise the costs to the customers due to higher overhead which will cause the employees to request more money in wages from their employers ....

pity for the unfortunate employer who cant seem to ever extort anywhere near enough all the while all the selfish bottom feeders want to steal their gots.

circular logic much?
the person who makes this argument wishes all those pesky employees were just slaves so they wouldnt have to split the profits. oh and also, no taxes, EVER.

Rant - 2011/08/01

I usually try to keep to a normal volume about hypocrisy. albeit I have no intention to ignore said hypocrisy(s). that being said I find myself fuming whenever I hear someone call for a flat tax and in the same breath say that the lowest earners would be granted exemptions from that tax burden; so 0%. So lets recap... I know I threw a lot of —or very few— big and complex —or brain dead simple— social engineering ideas out there. the flat tax that they want is applied progressively —or we could call it a progressive-flat tax. well, not to sound as stupid as flat taxers, isnt that what we have? we have a flat tax for people who make between 8,500 and 34,500; they pay a flat tax of 15%. and we have a flat tax for people who make below poverty; they pay a flat tax of 0%. and we have a flat tax for people who make 379,150 and above; they pay a flat tax of 35%.
oh, the flat taxer would say, we meant that we want to get rid of all those exemptions...
but didnt you just say that low earners would be getting an exemption? no one else merits any exemptions at all? what about the military? what about first responders? what about the people who work in less hospitable environments where as a condition of their employment they are unable to buy insurances at the rates that a normal person would pay? what about the disabled? what about the un-employable elderly?

so, thank you to all who have vomited out nonsense about flat taxes all these years. you are officially stupider than 4th grader logic.