[FoRK] How Barack lost my vote forever

[geege schuman]

Here's your quality of life yardstick:

http://www.retirementliving.com/RLtaxes.html

Do you see a rationale?

Geege




On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Adam L Beberg <beberg at mithral.com> wrote:

> Jeff Bone wrote on 4/17/2008 12:04 PM:
>
> >    In the most recent debate Senator Obama showed his true colors when
> > he stated that he wanted to raise the capital gains tax "for purposes of
> > fairness."
> >
>
> California tried the high taxes thing, currently the highest state, sales,
> and property taxes in the country.
>
> So 20% of the richest Californians left in the last few years. So yes,
> taxing the rich works, the evil capitalists left, we're rid of them, yay!
> Hurray for socialism!
>
> ...and now CA is 16 billion in the hole for just this year. Turns out only
> those tippy top few percent actually pay more in taxes then they cost the
> state in services, oops! Not that that was obvious or anything.
>
> Wealth is very very concentrated, and any country/state that doesn't cater
> to those people loses their economic viability. California and the US for
> the most part has lost it.
>
> --
> Adam L. Beberg
> http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/ <http://www.mithral.com/%7Ebeberg/>
>
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