I believe you. However, I disagree that the rich should be taxed more heavily than the poor. Kyoto was bad, environmental reform is good. The Kyoto accord won't reduce gas emissions. All it does is put money into the hands of the poorer nations that will use it to industrialize and pollute. Besides that, China, India and the US are not apart of it, meaning that it cannot have a major effect.
I'm neither here nor there with global warming, and there are people here who know a lot more about it, so I'm not going to act like an authority on the matter, but I agree with what's been said regarding actions being taken.
Global warming seems to be a factually existing phenomenon to the point that it's a concern, but I honestly don't believe countries should be putting their economies in jeopardy for something that might not even require such a sacrifice. If global warming needs action taken against it, good, there are ways that are already being worked and used, but this whole hysteria about there being no ice in the arctic or everything being underwater, it's not making me afraid, it's making me laugh.
Originally posted by BackFire
Environment's fine.Stop watching 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
I still find it amazing that anyone takes that movie with massive seriousness.
-AC
Originally posted by Nellinator
They proportionally do their part. Anything over that is charity, which is something I think is lacking, but should be up to the person, otherwise it is that cursed communism again.
No they don't their is so many loop holes written into the tax laws they end up paying nowhere near their share. Perhaps what we need to do then is fix our tax laws and remove those loopholes.
Originally posted by Nellinator
They proportionally do their part. Anything over that is charity, which is something I think is lacking, but should be up to the person, otherwise it is that cursed communism again.
Actually you need a class in politics, Asking for an increase in taxes to the rich is NOT communism. It may be scratching the surface of socialism a bit, but it is NOT communism.
Communism would be if I asked that everyone make the same wage no matter what they do. See communism deals in extremes like that which is one of the reasons it doesn't work, the other being human nature.
Originally posted by Starhawk
No they don't their is so many loop holes written into the tax laws they end up paying nowhere near their share. Perhaps what we need to do then is fix our tax laws and remove those loopholes.
The rich still pay far more taxes then the poor, that's just how it works... Most money however comes from the middle class as they make up the largest part of the society. If you want to get more money, you should tax them more and forget about the rest...
Those people can't leave the country to work somewhere else or buy a house in an other country and pay taxes there anyways.
Originally posted by Fishy
Most money however comes from the middle class as they make up the largest part of the society. If you want to get more money, you should tax them more and forget about the rest...Those people can't leave the country to work somewhere else or buy a house in an other country and pay taxes there anyways.
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