Thread: Seven Reasons Why Congress Should Repeal, Not Fix, the Death Tax

Here's some places to cut: ? http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title= Congressional_Office ​ s_and_Staff ? Each congress member gets alloted $748,000 for hiring up to 18 staff.? Cut that down to three staff per member at a max of $60,000 for each staff.? That cuts the allocation from ~$326M to ~$78M -?that just saved us $248M. ? Do the same for Senators: 3 staff (they currently have no limit) at a max of $60,000 per staff and the...

?Gotta go.? Real work to do.....

Neither will giving government yet ANOTHER source of revenue work. I've never advocated giving them ANOTHER source of revenue.? I'm only questioning the logic of?taking away a current source of revenue. I have a master's degree, follow current events, earn a high income, and pay a ton of taxes. Are you trying to say that having a master's degree, following current events, and having a high income makes you...

A flat tax is a terrible idea.

I think it could potentially?be reasonable to limit the right to vote to people who pay federal income taxes.? Even then, though, there are exceptions who don't pay taxes but do not deserve to have their right to vote taken away - for example, someone who lives entirely on an untaxed disability insurance policy, or a full-time college student who doesn't earn enough to pay taxes. ? I think that is reasonable although either a...

I think it's ridiculous that almost half of households don't pay federal income tax and that so many people think that the solution to everything is to raise taxes on the rich. I agree, but allowing more and more middle class workers get caught up in the AMT every year?is not the answer either. You know that while I may be one of the more liberal posters here, I think it's ridiculous that almost half of households don't...

So our government doesn't stay the same all the time. I am not disagreeing with your feelings about ths spending that is going on, but the players do change ? Yes - and they all seem to spend like Paris Hilton when she's drunk.

Ameiko - What you refer to as a middle class, wasn't really. That has only come in really in the last Century. Basically, it has been the rich and the peons. Now the peons don't have to be abjectly poor, but neither could they afford a lot beyond having a small dwelling. That changed in the late 1800's and has continued to this day, but we are starting to see a reversion, where the middle class is definitely getting poorer.

Ameiko, Um. ok. That analagy is just way out there. "Death tax" is a misnomer. It is a Neocon attempt to change the lexicon - something they were very good at before they abused their power and got it taken away. It gets all the Joe the Plumber types worked up over something that has no impact on them. Think of it as a tax on the income of the living heirs, not a tax on the decedent. When you die, poof, all your posessions and money...