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The lower taxes = greater revenue theory is false. Look at graphs and charts through out the years.
Actually, it's true--as Reagan's and Kennedy's tax-cuts proved quite thoroughly.
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Low taxes will allow it to eventually get out of control and eventually implode while high taxes for too long will destroy future growth.
Out of control? First, let me ask why you think the government has the right to "control" how or whether other people do business.... Then, let me ask what in the world gives you the idea that the government has the ability to do so.
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Also bigger government the better it can care for its citizens, which is the government's first duty of all.
I can't speak for every government so those of you across the pond may be able to quite correctly disagree as far as your nation is concerned, but as far as the government of the United States of America is concerned, that statement is absolutely false. Nowhere is the government required to care for its citizens. Not in the Constitution, not in the Bill of Rights, not in the intentions of any of the Framers--in fact, quite the opposite: Benjamin Franklin's "If I knew a man was coming to my house for the express purpose of doing good, I would run as fast as I could" quote is a favorite among conservatives. The government's duty is to protect its citizens, both from criminals within and enemies without, and otherwise get the hell out of the way.
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However there are those who'd rather let these people sit out in the rain/starve.
Actually, Americans are the most generous people in the world, as anyone in nearly any nation struck by disaster can attest. The problem isn't with spending money to stop people from starving--the problem is with people taking money from me at gunpoint, blowing more than half of it themselve, and then throwing a few cents to the starving people.
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I will gladly pay all the taxes my government will come up with, because i know they will not pass any tax to expensive or riddiculous,
Already, more than 50% of what you earn goes to the government one way or the other. Every time you buy something, you pay more for it than you should have to because every step of the way someone had to hike up the price of his good or service to cover the taxes. That's why about a third of the world's wealth is held in 70 tiny 'tax-haven' countries.
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and my money will go towards protecting the United States and helping those citizens would need the 5 cents out of my check more than i do.
And when the 50 (not 5) cents out of your check goes to funding "Piss Christ" or "The Holy Virgin Mary" (A jar of urine with a crucifix in it and a bad painting of the virgin Mary with elephant dung smeared on one breast and pictures of vaginas cut out of a porn magazine pasted around her, respectively--funded by the National Endowment for the Arts)? When it goes to the "War on Poverty", which has been waged for 40 years and saw poverty increase? When it's dumped by the truckload into public schools that produce graduates who know how to put on a condom but not how to read a newspaper (while charter and private schools do exponentially better with a fraction of the money)? When billions of dollars of our money go to the apparent goal of making sure that every square foot of concrete in West Virginia has Robert Byrd's (D-KKK-WV) name on it?
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Whatever tax they pass will not cripple, or debilitate me financially
Again, I note the luxury tax, specifically designed to "punish the rich" (because we all know that success deserves punishment), which ended up putting thousands out of work when the yacht industry went down the tubes.
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Anyone else get mad when u hear someone complain about tattered roads, flying being unsafe, or poor education stands and then getting angry that they have to pay extra in taxes to man these organizations. Or someone demanding lower taxes and complaining about we are falling behind in the test scores. Because it really makes me mad.
First, let me note again that we are throwing money at our schools and seeing them get worse, not better. Second, we can indeed be pissed that our government is taking massive amounts of money from us at gunpoint to provide services they shouldn't be providing, and then get pissed again that despite the massive amounts of stolen money, they're still doing a crappy job with those services. The problem with our roads, unsafe flying, and poor education is not that the government is not yet stealing enough money from us, or that the government isn't doing enough--in fact, in the latter two cases, the problem is specifically that the government is doing too much.
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The fact that some of the rich have the audacity to whine about how overtaxed they are pisses me off to no end.
Likewise, the fact that some of our people happily watch someone steal from the rich on their behal and then whine when they have the audacity to want to keep what they earn pisses me off to no end. How come it's 'greed' if you want to keep what you've earned, but not greed if you want to take what someone else earned at gunpoint?
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Remember, the top 1% of American citizens own about 90-95% of the property.
That is an incredibly large number--I'd like to see what you have for a source on that.
