jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

MS. FACTUAL

Note your source, CNN..that speaks for itself...Commie News Network...back to your welfare checks....

pafret Loc: Northeast

No law can be written to cover all possible contingencies. It would take most of the forests of the world to print such a law. That said, corporations hire platoons of accountants and tax lawyers to seek out vulnerabilities in tax laws and establish strategies for their corporations operations, which will minimize tax impact. These people are experts, in cash flow analysis, investment practices and a host of other financial esoterica which most of us never knew existed. It is not illegal, it takes advantage of what is commonly called "loopholes" in the law. It makes good business sense to take payment for services in specific manners, times, and places. It is never illegal to avoid taxes, the crime is in evading taxes.

However, our lawmakers introduce legislation to regulate and define the legal practice for a host of matters. Are these Congress people Einsteins with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things? Given the stupidity of their public utterances that is patently absurd; so where do these laws come from? The answer is that lobbyists who represent the exact industry being regulated for tax purposes write most industry specific legislation. They build in the gray areas and slippery loopholes used by corporations to "avoid" taxes.

Why does Congress go along with what is known to be self-serving action by lobbyists? That is where the money comes from to get re-elected. Introducing legislation provided by the industries being regulated brings big contributions, directly and indirectly. How often have you read of some congressman accepting plane trips or vacations from a corporation. These are the individuals who got out of step and their peccadilloes are exposed. The reality is these practices are pervasive and a fact of life for our bought and paid for government.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Where do you get your stats?

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Mathematicians have shown that if every single person, business and corporation were taxed at 100% the national debt would not be paid in 2000 years. Now imagine the unfunded liabilities very near 200 trillion dollars.

Since paying off our national debt or unfunded liability is an impossibility.
What one single act is needed, that defies liberals? Rhetorical question.... Smaller government both state and federal, lower spending, and only then lower taxes for all

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

So, with the rich paying over 70% of the collected, federal tax revenue, is not enough for you. How do they bleed everyone dry? Most of them are in the business of providing jobs that makes their money. What if every business went overseas and made their products there? Then we would lose all of those jobs and become like the third world countries. You are incredibly confused about who creates jobs and products in this country.

Chocura750

Those tremendous incomes are the product of the efforts of millions of people who get paid very little.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

That is because you only provided for your own market in this country, not for world consumption. Yoou need to get real.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

The uneducated earn less, and since liberals are the ones complaining about the low earnings? It's the lame argument of the lazy wanting $25. Minimum wage

pafret Loc: Northeast

One hundred percent correct. There are three main evils which have corrupted our government. The Fed is the first, not imposing term limits on governmental service is the second and defining corporations as persons is the third.

Elimination of any one of these three would effect a major improvement in all Americans lives. A Captain of a commercial fishing boat used to tell me that, "When a fish stinks, it stinks from the head". Whether this is true or not, the fact is that the problem is the giovernment. We all need to demand one of these evils be rectified and when achieved turn our atttention to the others.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

Probably because of all of the illegals they have in that state, working for less money than most Americans. Illegals have undermined the wage scale of most Americans in the areas where there is a great number of illegals working and taking jobs away from American workers and legal residents of this country.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

With the exception of corporations that are run by boards, not "an' individual. And many of these that payout high salaries also spend hundreds of millions to billions in research and development employing tens of thousands. Taxing them as a person would cost thousands of jobs, less research and development as well as expansion.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Your 100% correct and can be backed with empirical evidence, unless you are reading fake news studies.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Giving everyone a "haircut" seems a little inequitable when the consequences for the poor, on food stamps is starvation and death, whereas the wealthy will experience a reduction in income but they remain wealthy. We could print stimulus money but instead of giving it to the banks we could distribute it to all citizens at or below the median income level. These people will promptly spend it on all sorts of silly things like visiting a doctor or dentist, putting a new roof on their house, replacing a clapped out, rust bucket car. Its called trickle up prosperity, the wealthy who invest in stocks will garner increased return on their investments when the factories gear up for more production and sales. Just imagine what would have happened if Obama had dumped ten trillion dollars into the hands of people who would immediately spend it on durable hard goods and housing. It might even cause a rebirth of American manufacturing.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Good reductio ad absurdum ! Your last pargraph, unfortunately, is only likely to happen when pigs fly.