Taxing the rich - what is the cutoff?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Schneed -- if my views are so short sighted, I am very interested to hear how the Iraq war will make money for the United States.

Who in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks ever said the war would make money for us??? That would be utterly despicable to go to war for the purposes of financial gain. I responded to your statement about the disconnect between wanting to lower taxes and be for the war (and war spending) at the same time.

This shouldn't be hard to understand. Take your own personal budget. You could be for spending money on a plasma TV, say $1000. You could also be for taking a job for less money (say you want more vacation time). Say this new job represents a $3000 decrease in your pay.

You can still get the plasma TV, as long as you're for cutting $4000 out of your monthly budget. $3000 of cuts to account for the decrease in pay, and $1000 in cuts to pay for the Plasma TV. Maybe you figure I don't need a car, I'll trade it in for a motorbike and save on gas. Maybe you figure I don't need a cell phone. Maybe you figure you don't need to eat out as much. Maybe you figure you don't need a vacation this year. Whatever.

Same thing with the Iraq war. Just because people want to see lower taxes doesn't mean they have to give up spending on the war. Perhaps they want to cut wasteful spending in other government agencies before they consider halting the war spending.