(09-29-2020, 07:08 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-29-2020, 06:37 PM)mikesez Wrote: You will never mature as a citizen as long as you keep calling taxes penalties.
A penalty is something the government charges you with for your specific situation because you specifically did something wrong, like when I made a mistake on my taxes.
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A wealth tax is a penalty.  You are taxed because someone thinks that you have "too much".

Taxing a higher wage earner is a penalty because someone thinks that you earn "too much".

The death tax is a penalty because someone thinks that you saved "too much" to pass down to your heirs.

Those penalties are often justified by leftists like you because a person that has or earns over a certain amount is "too much" and "they don't need it".

If I worked and saved all of my life and earned say $20 million that I want to leave to my children.  Why is the government justified in taking almost half of that?  It's a penalty because I worked for and saved "too much".

When you finally mature you might realize that taxes have essentially become a penalty for quite a few people.  I personally earn a pretty good salary, have done so for a good portion of my life (after my military career).  I am penalized for what I earn every year and most times have to write a check for the government penalizing me more, yet my own children who earn less than me get a tax "refund" every year.

Taxes are a necessity, but when they are unfair (as the current system is) they become a penalty.

Allow me to add to this.  Due to prudent spending/saving and not living beyond our means my wife and paid off our house before we turned 40.  Because we were responsible we are not able to take standard deductions that most of you enjoy.  Ergo for being prudent and not accumulating debt we are penalized by an unjust tax system for being responsible human beings.

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