Who should pay taxes and how much of their income should they pay in taxes? \u00a0What is fair?\u00a0 Should everyone pay the same percentage of their income in taxes, or should the percentage increase as their income increases?\u00a0 If everyone paid the same percentage of their income in taxes, the more you earned the more taxes you would pay.\u00a0 That seems more than fair.\u00a0 Our government thinks not.\u00a0 Our government believes those who earn more should pay not only more in total taxes but also pay a higher percentage of their income as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Is that rewarding hard work and success or is that punishing success?\u00a0 What is wrong with earning more money?\u00a0 Would this tax system be compatible with our Founding Fathers vision of America’s opportunities?\u00a0 Or is this the spirit of European socialism?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the IRS, in 2006 the top 5% of wage earners paid 60% of the total federal taxes but only had 37% of the total pre-tax income.\u00a0 The wealthiest 5% of our country paid twice their share of taxes.\u00a0 Is that not enough?\u00a0 Is this inequity rewarding democratic opportunities or is it socialist redistribution of wealth?\u00a0 Did our Founding Fathers expect the government to redistribute the wealth?\u00a0 Does the Constitution guarantee equality in lifestyle or does the Constitution guarantee freedom and opportunity? President Reagan observed, “The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people …and too much liberty with the Constitution.”<\/p>\n
Our politicians ignore the Constitution, massaging it to say what they want.\u00a0 An example of the government overstepping their Constitutional authority and “sharing the wealth” was when they were complicit with lenders getting people home mortgages for which they did not qualify.\u00a0 The result of this “sharing the wealth;” when the economy faltered, the people could not make their payments, and the dominos toppled.\u00a0 They set up the economy for failure because they knew best.\u00a0 Pure socialism.\u00a0 President Reagan summed it up saying, “Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”<\/p>\n
The Founding Fathers never intended for the government to fix all society’s ills, all the inequities of life, all the unfairness in life.\u00a0 They never intended nor advocated for socialist redistribution of wealth.\u00a0 Is life fair?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Will life ever be fair?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Can government fix that?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Should government try to fix that?\u00a0 No.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, when is enough, enough?\u00a0 Always demanding more of our money, is the government rewarding hard work?\u00a0 Or, are they removing the incentives for success, replacing the American dream with the American nightmare; dismantling the democracy our Founding Fathers gifted us with their blood?\u00a0 The government’s reward for hard work and earning significant sums of money is a punishing, progressive income tax system.<\/p>\n
My oldest brother graduated high school at age 16, in 1947.\u00a0 That summer my parents put him on a train to Lincoln, Nebraska to attend college.\u00a0 My parents could not help him financially.\u00a0 They were too poor.\u00a0 My father shook my brother’s hand and said, “Good luck son.”\u00a0 In our family that meant, “You are on your own.\u00a0 Do well and make your parents proud.”\u00a0 At age 16 he was on his own.\u00a0 He worked tirelessly and paid his way through college, medical school and completed a residency in dermatology.\u00a0 He created an international business in hair transplantation, pioneering that medical specialty.\u00a0 Yes, the Bosley you see on television discussing\u00a0hair transplantation is my big brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Does my brother owe the government a larger percentage of his income than the rest of us do?\u00a0 Is that the reward for working 12 hour days for decades creating his business?\u00a0 Is that the American dream our Founding Fathers foresaw and promised? Why should he pay a higher percentage of his income in taxes than the rest of us do?\u00a0 Shouldn’t we all pay the same percentage, those earning more paying more total dollars in taxes?\u00a0 Isn’t that enough?\u00a0 Do those who achieve great success need to be punished? Should the government decide the maximum we can earn and then punitively tax us if we dare exceed that limit?\u00a0 That is exactly what they are doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What do our politicians promise?\u00a0 Money, never ending money.\u00a0 They promise socialism.\u00a0 They promise to pervert the Constitution and morph government into the role of taking care of everyone from birth to death; no need for us to take care of ourselves.\u00a0 And they expect 5% of the people to pay for the rest of us.\u00a0 In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned us saying, “Democracy in America is doomed when the people learn to vote themselves money from the public trough.”\u00a0 Politicians.\u00a0 Money.\u00a0 Never ending money.<\/p>\n
Equality in lifestyle requires socialism with redistribution of wealth.\u00a0 Equality in opportunity requires democracy with rewards for hard work.\u00a0 We choose.<\/p>\n
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