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Originally Posted by pgardn
Oh now wait one moment sir.
Our progressive tax system... you just said rich people
are not willing to pay their fair share. How much more do
you want the wealthy to pay, since it is so bad now?
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No, they aren't willing to pay their fair share. They have to be forced to pay it. I am not saying we have to go over 50%. I have given everyone here an example of where this system is off the tracks, and sucking the blood of the poor and the middle class. That's when the oil companies take 40cents a gallon n' pocket it each time people put gas in their tanks. I am not necessarily saying the price people pay is incredibly out of whack, but they are making 10% profit no matter if costs $2.50 a gallon, or $4.50 a gallon. There is no competition. Not a free market where other companies can cut that profit in half to try to compete. Just suck, suck, suck blood from the poor n' middle class to the tune of 10 bil a quarter per company(regularly.)
Not only that, but they get tax breaks while the rape is occuring. Then , you hear, well stockholders are making money...So, it's not just the oil companies doing good. That's just garbage. The average poor or middle class couple is getting they a-s-s eaten up by these oil companies. It's a flaw in our economic system, and it's been allowed to continue. That's the kind of devastation you and Zig don't understand, and never will. You believe it's a system where ya just work harder and harder and things will work themselves out. They don't. This needs correction. It's a protected monopoly, and it is the way this economic sytem would look all over the country if we didn't have a progressive tax system, and other controls in place.