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Tax rich Americans for luxury items
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
The rich cannot resist flaunting how much better off they are than the rest of us. So let’s at least make them pay for it. Bring back the luxury tax on yachts, expensive cars, jewelry, alcohol, homes, clothes, etc. It will annoy them but scarcely dent their millions.
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My, My--green with envy!
Hey Ed >>>>> I am not rich myself but to read your letter just makes me laugh' You sound like a real idiot. The only thing that can stop wealth is SOCIALISM! Then everybody hits the wall together. Grow up!!!
Alcohol?
You are sure one jealous greedbag. If you would spend your time working instead of being envious you might too be wealthy. Maybe you should even go to church and read the Bible. There is something in there called the ten commandments. The tenth one mentions it is morally wrong to covet your neighbor's property. You might learn something.
jib101: Your spin on the 10th Commandment is entertaining. Sick people don't covet their neighbor's "belongings." They covet their own health. You must have missed these little tidbits in your bible study class. Your postings don't indicate you're a Christian but If you are a believer you might want to pay particular attention to the last paragraph.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:24
"Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien." Leviticus 19:10
"When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien." Leviticus 23:22
"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land." Deuteronomy 15:11
'I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.' Matthew 25:36
"I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment." Ezekiel 34:16
Yes. Let's put the workers making all these products out of work. Why should someone have a job making jewelery? Why should someone make money selling alcohol when I don't drink it.
Workers of the world unite and bring back the guillotine
The Bible says you should help the poor but the poor already have healthcare, it is called Medicade. Most of the whiners who want free care are middle class and there is nothing in the Bible about helping greedy middle class citizens who want to save money so that they can still afford their new car, boat, etc. Let them liquidate their luxury assets and get on Medicade.
I guess you believe that if someone is ill it is OK for them to pick up a gun and rob someone as long as the money is used to pay his doctor bills.
There is also a commandment about stealing. What do you think taxation is? I don't pay taxes voluntarily, but because I know that if I don't some government goon will be out with a gun to take it anyway.
Gordon, do you advocate stoning the homosexuals and adulterers too?
Patrick: I am not a believer. Just thought I'd point out a few things for people who might claim to be Christian, but do not practice what is preached.
"The rich cannot resist flaunting how much better off they are than the rest of us. So let's at least make them pay for it. Bring back the luxury tax on yachts, expensive cars, jewelry, alcohol, homes, clothes, etc. It will annoy them but scarcely dent their millions."
Is this what this county had come to?
The wailer did not mention cigarettes. Probably because he smokes.
LarryVegas asks what this county has come to? It is quite apparent as greed, envy and lack of morality has taken over.
You don't like the amount of your house payments? There is some attorney out there who will get them lowered for you, even though you signed a contract to pay a certain amount.
Your credit card bill too high? Someone will try to negotiate the amount of your balance downward even though you signed an agreement to pay off the things you bought with the card.
You can't afford your doctor bills? You elected a president who wants to pay them for you even though the money has to be taken from others. He also promises to give you all kinds of free stuff than you didn't earn.
A majority of the people have lost all sense of morality and refuse to live up to the standards that used to exist in this once great country.
I am glad I'm not young any more as I would hate to see what will be left of this country in another thirty to forty years. It is not going to be pretty.
"The rich cannot resist flaunting how much better off they are than the rest of us."
Let me see, flaunting, flaunting, flaunting...
I get it...
It's the "Bird"
The reason the rich do not resist flaunting the fact that they are better than everyone else is because we are. "Honey, where did I put my Rolex?"
Taxing someone because they are successful is not the best motivator to get younger people to try to reach their potential. It does however show through these post and others what is the most feared for the people with large fortunes. The fear that others will through law or force take what they have made and the fact that they are a minority in a majority rule government with self interest law makers.