Comments on: Being Middle Class in America Sucks.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:11:04 +0000

darth, I am pretty sure that we had something to do with that whole starving thing, but putting that aside, nothing in the tax code is an accident. It is carefully contrived to place as much burden as possible on the most productive members of the non elite strata while minimizing taxes for the elite.

By: darth pathel

darth pathel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:19:24 +0000

well be happy you live in america i dream of being there like you know how terrble it is too live in bangladesh where there are starved to death poeple all around

By: USA sucks

USA sucks — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:14:06 +0000

USA sucks, Europe and Australia are better!

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By: d weed

d weed — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:59:29 +0000

get your facts straight … the top 1% earners in the country pay over 40% of the taxes. Is their anything else you would like bought for you?

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By: Reverend Russell

Reverend Russell — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:48:43 +0000

America sucks… and I do not mean that in a good way.. America at it’s core clings to th religious belief system of it’s founding fathers… Calvinism. We live in and always have lived in a theocracy based on the devotees of the 16th Century heretic, John Calvin . the Bible of our theocracy is Adam Smith’s (another devout Calvinist) Wealth of Nations which Smith cleverly morphed Calvin’s “chosen” theology into a social doctrine that was implemented by Washington and Hamilton et al … the doctrine vis a vis Smith’s sacredly blessed “entrepreneur” … the tenets of the doctrine are never fully addressed… but it goes like this: The “Chosen” IE God’s Chosen… are under a covenant.. not to be broken… under that covenant they are blessed as God bestows upon them a bounty. The “no chosen” have no bounty. And for “chosen” to give away that bounty is a violation of the covenant. The chosen know who they are,.. they “have” those not “having” exhibit prima facie evidence of their “not chosen” status. The Republican party is based on Calvin’s doctrine.. thus, to pay taxes.. is a breach of the covenant that accrue from being chosen.. and paying a tax is a transfer payment to the not chosen which violates the covenant that goes with being “chosen.” Thus our social construct does not allow for any implementation that embraces the notion that “we are all in this together” illogical to a Calvinist AKA Republican. Thus we can never achieve what our biil of rights declares i our due whether chosen or not… the not chosen in Calvin’s model decides.. allocates who has and who goes without. Reagan came from a devout Calvinist family as did all the Bush’s for generations. Until America abandons it’s Calvinistic theocracy we can never achieve the goal of equality… unity… the dignity of all of us to be accorded dignity on the basis of being human. Such notions are antithetical to the core beliefs of Americans in general. So we continue our quest to prove individually we are “Chosen” and our contemporaries are not. In the vernacular, “I got mine, God declared it so, screw you for not being ‘chosen’ like me.”

By: Bill Maher

Bill Maher — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:45:05 +0000

Other advanced countries laugh at us, because we pay taxes, but get no services in return. Can’t get free health care that would be socialism says joe the fake plumber, can’t get a pension more socialism, can’t get free college more socialism. Well if those are socialism than call me a damn socialist. At least in Europe when you pay taxes you get a free education and health care, you know actually getting stuff for all your taxes. This is why I hate Americans!

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:05:21 +0000

This country is a c omplete joke. When is the typical American going to wake up, is apathy is too much. Where is the OUTRAGE??!! Stressing all about these taxes–to fund what?/–bailouts for billionaires, junky American cars, Wall Stree con-men, “401ks” that are a middle class rip off, white collar welfare, useless wars that we emabarrassingly lost??? Stop paying taxes, if we all did that this joke govt. would shut down. The problem is most USA people are wimps, and followers, they do not have a backbone and will not act collectively in this situation. Fire the idiots in the congress/senate and hire some of your own. Stop electing millionaires/billionaires to congress/senate/president–they ONLY care about themselves and their pay raises-interestingly they do not have 401k s they state it’s too risky?? Stop buying services, stop using services, then it will hit’em in the wallet–that is the ONLY way USA people wake up.

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