Jeff Binkley

 JB> I have no problem paying a reasonable and fair amount of tax.  I do have
 JB> a problem when government spending is upwards of 20% of the GDP of the
 JB> country and the top 10% of the tax payers pay upwards of 60% of all
 JB> taxes.

2005 data 70.30

 JB> I also think that any tax system which punishes people for becoming more
 JB> successful and for saving/investing money is foolish and incents the wrong
 JB> behavior for a society to be economically great.

 JB> The government can destroy free markets faster than any other force.
 JB> Contrarily they cannot create free markets, except by getting out of the
 JB> way.  I do enjoy listening to liberal drone on about how lower taxes do
 JB> not stimulate the economy and increase overall prosperity and yet when
 JB> there is an economic slowdown the first thing they want to do is give
 JB> some of our tax money back for us to spend.  And most do not see the
 JB> irony in this.

Exactly

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