No taxes, no government. No government, no laws. No laws, no property. Therefore, No taxes, no property. nnYou cannot have even a corporate plutocracy without taxes.nnMoreover, all law is enforced by violence ultimately. Property is based on violence – read your history books to see how the current distribution of wealth was created,nnAny just society, and certainly any democracy must be based on something more than force. Ie., a social contract, which establishes an arrangement that is fair for everyone. nnCorporate capitalism is inherently amoral, and therefore it is often immoral. The distribution of wealth that stems from our current corporate system is obscenely immoral and unjust.nnSo, there is a legal and a moral basis for taxation, especially of the super rich who, for the most, part did not in any way “earn” their wealth. There is a big difference between creating wealth and in accumulating wealth.

You aren’t following where your money really goes. nnWall Street is full of people who made some very bad decisions. And they got your money. nnNow they’re laughing their way to the bank. Banks also got your money. They’re laughing too.

You’ve bought into the dream the moneyed interests are feeding you. Actually it’s a fantasy. Tomorrow it’s going to rain pennies from heaven. nnTomorrow never comes. All you’ve got is today.

So, why don’t you have compassion?nnAnd are you aware that some of those who’ve gained the most in our country do NOT pay their taxes? Who, no doubt, chuckle up their sleeves because you, like a little sheep, do?

How much money do you need to have a fulfilling life?nnDoes stockpiling assets add to happiness?nnHaven’t you yourself just revealed that you have a “sense of entitlement”?

Exactly! That’s why we have unions. Or that used to be the force behind unions. This whole debate is about money, and the love of it. Everyone’s mad at the CEO’s of financial institututions, and angry that they’re receiving such large severance packages. Well, so what? They contracted for that with their company. What business is it of ours how much they make? When you apply for a job, and you get hired at a certain wage per hour, that’s what you are contracted to get. You just can’t determine for yourself that you are entitled to more money. And that’s the problem. It’s not the rich who are destroying the middle class. It’s the government’s “spread the wealth around” attitude that is destoying incentives to become rich. The big businesses are the ones that can afford to hire hundreds or thousands of workers. The workers in turn buy products with and pay taxes on their income, and that enables the businesses they buy from to hire more employees, and so on. That’s how capitalism works. And hopefully the government in place doesn’t overspend all the income it gets in American workers’ taxes. It used to be that if you work hard, follow the rules, pay your taxes, that you have every opportunity to be rich. You had pride if you made something of yourself. But this anti-capitalistic attitude, where people frown on someone, just because their rich, has got to stop! By the way, the people that are screaming the loudest about rich people should scream the loudest at our federally-elected leaders who have been at the trough for many years. President on down! If they were paid minimum wage by the hour, and had to pay for their own gas and their own vehicle and their own home, maybe they wouldn’t be fighting so much trying to get re-elected. Everyone I tell that to says, “Well, they need those perks, because they do such a hard job and their…” What, rich?

I agree. I noticed that at the beginning of the housing bubble collapse and the resulting recession, that there was one Democrat that said he was going on a five-dollar-a-day meal budget, because of the taxpayers losing so much money having to pay him, and he dared his collegues to follow his lead. No one took him up on it! And didn’t Congress all get pay raises during the recession? Seems that everyone want to “spread the wealth around” unless it’s their wealth!

2. What gives liberals the belief that government is entitled to this money in the form of tax revenue?nnAnswer: The government is entitled to this money because the tax code always was much higher until Reagan, Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. lowered it to create jobs that never happened. In fact during both Bush years there was little job creation. In fact Clinton had more jobs created than both Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. along with Reagan screwed things up. nnRoads need to be built, teachers, fire fighters, policeman, infrastructure u2013 roads, highways, trains, etcu2026 I donu2019t think the private sector wants to pay for these services on there own.nnNot everyone is perfect but corporations need checks & balances so that they play fair. n

If you really think that everyone has the same opportunities you are childishly mistaken.

@1Capitalist, if you are so self-sufficient why do you accept the 3% tax break Bush gave you? Do you need that government hand-out?

@Brilliant. You seem to be missing my point. By supporting tax breaks for the wealthy, you are supporting a redistribution of wealth. . . to the wealthy. I assume you can wrap your head around the idea that these tax breaks are a hand out to the wealthy. This is why I will again ask you, why do you discriminate? Why are the wealthy more deserving of your hard earned dollars than the poor?

There is no such thing as “American corporations”. They have no alliance to anything but profit.