Comments on: The Rich Do Not Benefit Disproportionately http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/ Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bs http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-151 bs Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:27:58 +0000 #comment-151 <p>Give me a number. How much should we be <i>allowed</i> to make, Tamblin? $250K/yr? $100K? Should everyone be making the same thing? What is there to motivate people to improve themselves if you and your <strike>socialist</strike> progressive friends succeed in setting income limits and redistributing wealth to the <strike>lazy</strike> less fortunate?</p> <p>What exactly is <b>extreme</b>?</p> <p>Hmmmm???</p> Give me a number. How much should we be allowed to make, Tamblin? $250K/yr? $100K? Should everyone be making the same thing? What is there to motivate people to improve themselves if you and your socialist progressive friends succeed in setting income limits and redistributing wealth to the lazy less fortunate?

What exactly is extreme?

Hmmmm???

]]> By: Tamblin http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-150 Tamblin Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:20:20 +0000 #comment-150 <p>I've said before I'm not christian.</p> I’ve said before I’m not christian.

]]> By: speciallist http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-149 speciallist Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:47:40 +0000 #comment-149 <p>T the T....I'm not surprised you don't "believe in the concept"...</p> T the T….I’m not surprised you don’t “believe in the concept”…

]]> By: Tamblin http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-148 Tamblin Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:24:04 +0000 #comment-148 <p>cardinal sin doesn't concern me since I don't believe in the concept. But since you do, wasn't greed (or Avarice if you prefer) another deadly sin?</p> cardinal sin doesn’t concern me since I don’t believe in the concept. But since you do, wasn’t greed (or Avarice if you prefer) another deadly sin?

]]> By: simpson316 http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-147 simpson316 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:58:27 +0000 #comment-147 <p>Ignore inequality. Focus on overall growth. Despite increasing inequality, ordinary Americans are seeing their incomes <a href="http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/10/ordinary-americ.html">grow</a>.</p> <p>When you begin to focus on inequality you will begin to harm that growth. Taking from the "rich" and giving to the middle class and poor will slow the overall growth of the economy. You will have taken care of your boogie man though. The inequality gap will have closed by making the "rich" poorer and not by raising up the middle class and poor.</p> Ignore inequality. Focus on overall growth. Despite increasing inequality, ordinary Americans are seeing their incomes grow.

When you begin to focus on inequality you will begin to harm that growth. Taking from the “rich” and giving to the middle class and poor will slow the overall growth of the economy. You will have taken care of your boogie man though. The inequality gap will have closed by making the “rich” poorer and not by raising up the middle class and poor.

]]> By: David_Hinz http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-146 David_Hinz Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:55:58 +0000 #comment-146 <p>what is "extreme" is the problem. "Extreme" income disparity means Michael Jordan had no business receiving $100 million dollars in a year. </p> <p>"Extreme" income disparity is nobody's business...</p> what is “extreme” is the problem. “Extreme” income disparity means Michael Jordan had no business receiving $100 million dollars in a year.

“Extreme” income disparity is nobody’s business…

]]> By: stang http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-145 stang Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:47:18 +0000 #comment-145 <p><em>Extreme</em> <strong>envy</strong> is the problem.</p> <p>I leave you to ponder this quote.</p> <blockquote> <p>“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.”</p> <p>Paul Johnson</p> </blockquote> <p>Are you not concerned by cardinal sin? </p> Extreme envy is the problem.

I leave you to ponder this quote.

“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.”

Paul Johnson

Are you not concerned by cardinal sin?

]]> By: Tamblin http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-144 Tamblin Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:28:36 +0000 #comment-144 <p>is that <em>extreme</em> income disparity is unhealthy for a society in a number of respects. Taxpolicy is one way of addressing it. </p> is that extreme income disparity is unhealthy for a society in a number of respects. Taxpolicy is one way of addressing it.

]]> By: janis http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-143 janis Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:16:38 +0000 #comment-143 <p>government assistance, then things are hunky-dory?</p> government assistance, then things are hunky-dory?

]]> By: Tamblin http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-142 Tamblin Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:13:24 +0000 #comment-142 <p>that the left most bar is so high because it's basically divide by 0 issue. Of course the poorest get a bigger share of government services compard to what they pay- they can paythe least and need the most. The more interesting question is just how much money of government services the wealthy are eating up. That's what the graph I suggest would show. And my guess is you'd see basically a mirror image of this graph.</p> <p>Personally so long as income inequality is growing I take that to be strong proof that taxes on the rich are certainly not too high.</p> that the left most bar is so high because it’s basically divide by 0 issue. Of course the poorest get a bigger share of government services compard to what they pay- they can paythe least and need the most. The more interesting question is just how much money of government services the wealthy are eating up. That’s what the graph I suggest would show. And my guess is you’d see basically a mirror image of this graph.

Personally so long as income inequality is growing I take that to be strong proof that taxes on the rich are certainly not too high.

]]> By: Vladimir http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-141 Vladimir Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:10:07 +0000 #comment-141 <p>On the above graph, any bar greater than $1.00 indicates that that group is a net beneficiary of wealth redistribution.</p> <p>Less than a buck, it's your wealth that's being redistributed.</p> <p>Now, the current scheme may not go far enough to suit you, but contrary to popular notion, the middle class is apparently a net beneficiary.</p> <p>The fact remains, as the table shows, the top income earners pay nearly all the tax. And what's obscene is that no tax cut can ever gain any traction because those who bloviate shoot it down with "It disproportionately benefits the rich!"</p> <p>Well, duh, guess who pays all the taxes?</p> On the above graph, any bar greater than $1.00 indicates that that group is a net beneficiary of wealth redistribution.

Less than a buck, it’s your wealth that’s being redistributed.

Now, the current scheme may not go far enough to suit you, but contrary to popular notion, the middle class is apparently a net beneficiary.

The fact remains, as the table shows, the top income earners pay nearly all the tax. And what’s obscene is that no tax cut can ever gain any traction because those who bloviate shoot it down with “It disproportionately benefits the rich!”

Well, duh, guess who pays all the taxes?

]]> By: Tamblin http://www.redstate.com/simpson316/2008/10/26/the-rich-do-not-benefit-disproportionately/#comment-140 Tamblin Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:13:33 +0000 #comment-140 <p>in terms of absolute spending rather than in terms of spending per dollar of tax. </p> in terms of absolute spending rather than in terms of spending per dollar of tax.

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