Study confirms corporate profits going to executives and shareholders, not workers

[Elfiero]

Uh oh!

Look Elfie, Uncle Tom's everywhere! They're taking over!!! Run for your life!

Sure, I go for all my polling data to a CONservative polling company.................

Reuters (isn't even American) has him improving yes....he's gone from 9.8% approval among blacks, to 12.6%....... which the error bar pretty much eliminates any gain.

Yeah the Racist in Chief is just LOVED by the African- American community now.......................LMAO.

Got anymore mythology to share?

 

[Troglodyte]

Obviously, whatever percent in a flat tax scenario will hurt the person making less money. But you’re eliminating the boogeymen of evil corporate greedy old white guys. I would also think it would incentivize you to better yourself and find a new job to make more money. It’s why fast food jobs and retail workers and waiter/waitressing jobs are not meant to be careers. They’re meant to be jobs to pay minimal bills while in school, or a temporary source of income if you got laid off/fired/whatever. But if you’re content in poverty, or content with complacency, that shouldn’t be visited on someone who’s ambitious or monetarily successful because they studied harder, worked harder, made an effort to better themselves.

But progressive taxes are incremental. A person making $1 million pays the same amount of tax on the first $100k as a person making a total of $100k. You argue it’s unfair that 1%ers get taxed higher amounts in the upper brackets and overall, but why do they choose to keep earning the higher wages? It can’t be that unfair.

 

[Supersteeler]

Sure, I go for all my polling data to a CONservative polling company.................

Reuters (isn't even American) has him improving yes....he's gone from 9.8% approval among blacks, to 12.6%....... which the error bar pretty much eliminates any gain.

Yeah the Racist in Chief is just LOVED by the African- American community now.......................LMAO.

Got anymore mythology to share?

If your head gets stuck in the sand any farther you will fall in. Your party is disintegrating and walking away, stop and look around sometime.

 

[mightyguru]

Welcome to capitalism? That's just the way it works dude.

 

[fedderone]

But progressive taxes are incremental. A person making $1 million pays the same amount of tax on the first $100k as a person making a total of $100k. You argue it’s unfair that 1%ers get taxed higher amounts in the upper brackets and overall, but why do they choose to keep earning the higher wages? It can’t be that unfair.

Is this a serious question?
Why does someone making millions of dollars want to continue to make millions of dollars?
You think the thought crosses their mind that they should quit their current job to take a job at Wendy’s to get to a better tax bracket?
My original fair comment to Elfiero ( still unanswered ) had to do with El’s comment about 1%ers NOT paying their fair share. I argued that they currently pay the majority of federal taxes in this country. What would be “more their fair share”?


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[Ron Burgundy]

I argued that they currently pay the majority of federal taxes in this country. What would be “more their fair share”?

All of it. If someone has a lot of money then they obviously got it unfairly and the government needs to take it back and give it to the people.
Reminds me of my ex-wife's mother. Hard-core Labor Democrat and I've heard her say that "Those people have too much money and the government should take it." Now in the next breath she complain about "lazy bums on welfare", so it wasn't like she wanted the government to take money from The Rich and give it to her, just that she thought there should be an upper limit on how much money people should be able to keep and no one should have more than she did.

 

[Stewey]

Is this a serious question?
Why does someone making millions of dollars want to continue to make millions of dollars?
You think the thought crosses their mind that they should quit their current job to take a job at Wendy’s to get to a better tax bracket?
My original fair comment to Elfiero ( still unanswered ) had to do with El’s comment about 1%ers NOT paying their fair share. I argued that they currently pay the majority of federal taxes in this country. What would be “more their fair share”?


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"What would be the 1%'ers fair share"? ….is a question libtard democRATS have never answered. Whatever they manage to contrive is even too absurd for them.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

But progressive taxes are incremental. A person making $1 million pays the same amount of tax on the first $100k as a person making a total of $100k. You argue it’s unfair that 1%ers get taxed higher amounts in the upper brackets and overall, but why do they choose to keep earning the higher wages? It can’t be that unfair.

Keep a liberal talking long enough and you will get a peek into their way of thinking. Here we see that the Trog's test for the fairness of a tax is whether or not it makes someone stop earning at a certain level.

 

[Troglodyte]

Is this a serious question?
Why does someone making millions of dollars want to continue to make millions of dollars?
You think the thought crosses their mind that they should quit their current job to take a job at Wendy’s to get to a better tax bracket?

The point of the question was the obvious answer. High taxes are not a disincentive to high income. Until they are, a progressive tax isn’t unfair at all.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

The point of the question was the obvious answer. High taxes are not a disincentive to high income. Until they are, a progressive tax isn’t unfair at all.

And there we have it.

 

[bmoritz]

I guess they figured if a guy making a million bucks a year has to give the government 35 or 39% of it... whatever the top bracket is.... he still has rough $650000 to live on..... which in essence means that he’ll never want for anything. On the other hand, if a guy making $20K has to give up even 10%, that will hurt him a helluva lot more in the end. It definitely seems unfair when you look at it on paper, but ultimately I think it’s the best way to do it.

That's life, get over it. Some people have more than others. And if you're making $20,000, better yourself. Or stop bitching.

 

[bmoritz]

The point of the question was the obvious answer. High taxes are not a disincentive to high income. Until they are, a progressive tax isn’t unfair at all.

Then by your logic, why should anybody at the low end be bitching about wanting more, since they'd have to enter a higher tax bracket?

I thought that moron Elfie said some stupid ****, but this comment by you might actually be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Troglodyte]

Keep a liberal talking long enough and you will get a peek into their way of thinking. Here we see that the Trog's test for the fairness of a tax is whether or not it makes someone stop earning at a certain level.

Explain how a situation where the upside far exceeds the downside is unfair. You have from now until eternity.

 

[ZonaBurgh]

That's life, get over it. Some people have more than others. And if you're making $20,000, better yourself. Or stop bitching.

This is the logic one gets when everyone gets a trophy as a kid, and can't understand why it doesn't apply in the real world.

I agree, if you want something, work for it. And build real self esteem in the process.

 

[IndySteel]

American workers employed at small businesses across the United States are benefitting strongly with increased wages as President Trump clamps down on immigration.
The Trump economic model has been to tighten the labor market — partially through increased immigration enforcement—by asking businesses to hire Americans who have been marginalized from the workforce rather than imported a foreign underclass of cheap labor.

This economic model has secured new job opportunities and higher wages for blue collar American workers as there is less downward pressure on their hourly salaries from mass unskilled, illegal immigration.

The latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey finds that small businesses are raising wages to retain and attract new workers into the workforce.

 

[fedderone]

The point of the question was the obvious answer. High taxes are not a disincentive to high income. Until they are, a progressive tax isn’t unfair at all.

It is absolutely unfair.
You want to penalize someone for making more money than someone else, and you want to reward someone who doesn't make as much money as someone else.
It's also unfair that greedy rich people can hire legal and tax experts to find EVERY SINGLE loop hole, exemption, write-off, etc. to exploit and file to keep from paying as much taxes......in a progressive tax system we're set up on. By the way, our current federal tax code is the equivalent to 11 King James Bibles as far as word count.
The average American cannot navigate nor use to their advantage, they have to hire an accountant to try and do their best. Meanwhile, people who can afford can have lawyers and CPAs mull over their finances and use every advantage.
I want to do away with ALL of the above scenarios. It should not be this complicated. It should make sense and be FAIR to everyone. We should neither penalize nor reward anyone for anything. We need taxes to run the government. Everyone should kick in something. Your something is a percent. The same percent it is for everyone else. The more you make, the more they take. But it alleviates whining and crying and people the opportunity to be turds.

 

[fedderone]

That's life, get over it. Some people have more than others. And if you're making $20,000, better yourself. Or stop bitching.

Correct.
We have to stop teaching that purple ribbons exist.
Everyone can't win.
Everyone will not be a millionaire.
Not everyone can be CEO.
Either accept your role or change your role.
It's up to you, not everyone else/society/rich white guys/boogeymen/etc.
What ever happened to personal responsibility?

 

[Supersteeler]

Correct.
We have to stop teaching that purple ribbons exist.
Everyone can't win.
Everyone will not be a millionaire.
Not everyone can be CEO.
Either accept your role or change your role.
It's up to you, not everyone else/society/rich white guys/boogeymen/etc.
What ever happened to personal responsibility?

Personal responsibility has been bred out of society. For this generation, If you don't do well, blame somebody else, but by all means, DO NOT work harder to fix your situation. Just yell about it really loud, you'll feel better.

 

[oneforthebus]

Next year we will pay a lot less in taxes, and it's looking like we will be able to buy an association health plan that might actually be affordable and doesn't force us to buy coverage for a bunch of stuff we don't need. Business has also been gangbusters---we are almost at the point of having to sub out some work. I no longer lie awake at night wondering if we're going to be able to pay for our kids' college.

We have numerous friends who own businesses who are also way better off.

Do I approve of Trump? Not really. Am I ever going to help put a raging socialist in the White House who will roll back everything we've gained? Hell no.

 

[bmoritz]

For the first time in over a decade, I'm regularly seeing "Help Wanted" or "Apply Within" signs. This is a GREAT thing. Only whinny *** loser liberals (like that piece of **** Elfi) who hate this country aren't happy about it.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

For the first time in over a decade, I'm regularly seeing "Help Wanted" or "Apply Within" signs. This is a GREAT thing. Only whinny *** loser liberals (like that piece of **** Elfi) who hate this country aren't happy about it.

More people earning their own way and less people dependent on government is bad for Democrats.

 

[DBS1970]

It is absolutely unfair.
You want to penalize someone for making more money than someone else, and you want to reward someone who doesn't make as much money as someone else.
It's also unfair that greedy rich people can hire legal and tax experts to find EVERY SINGLE loop hole, exemption, write-off, etc. to exploit and file to keep from paying as much taxes......in a progressive tax system we're set up on. By the way, our current federal tax code is the equivalent to 11 King James Bibles as far as word count.
The average American cannot navigate nor use to their advantage, they have to hire an accountant to try and do their best. Meanwhile, people who can afford can have lawyers and CPAs mull over their finances and use every advantage.
I want to do away with ALL of the above scenarios. It should not be this complicated. It should make sense and be FAIR to everyone. We should neither penalize nor reward anyone for anything. We need taxes to run the government. Everyone should kick in something. Your something is a percent. The same percent it is for everyone else. The more you make, the more they take. But it alleviates whining and crying and people the opportunity to be turds.

I can only add one thing: Direct taxation of income is inherently regressive. Only slaves don't own what they produce through their labor, our current tax code is slavery with extra steps.

 

[Troglodyte]

Am I ever going to help put a raging socialist in the White House who will roll back everything we've gained? Hell no.

I think you mean “borrowed”.

 

[Troglodyte]

I can only add one thing: Direct taxation of income is inherently regressive. Only slaves don't own what they produce through their labor, our current tax code is slavery with extra steps.

Odd that you would gladly trade incomes with those who are enslaved the most, isn’t it?

 

[DBS1970]

Odd that you would gladly trade incomes with those who are enslaved the most, isn’t it?

Um no.

I do not suffer from wealth envy like you nor do I covet another mans wages, wealth or property. I realize that the key to prosperity is laws and policy that doesn't punish hard work and entrepreneurship and a tax code that does not take capital out of the market place. We had roads, courts, a national defense and everything else we have now before the 16th Amendment and we had more freedom and prosperity.