SlidellCajun

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Taxes are the price to pay for living in an organized society. Most folks don't want to live in your lolbertarian fantasy world.

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Agreed that Taxes are the price to pay for a government. The method of taxation does not have to be income taxation. It’s been allowed by a passive citizenry.

If we shift from an income tax base to a consumption tax base, it will attract wealthy productive citizens. Why would we not want that?
The wealthy hardly get any return for carrying the load. They are responsible for the majority of the income tax that is received by the government and what do they get on reform? Curses. Politicians like Obama, Hillary, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Warren all curse the wealthy. They blame the wealthy. They get little in return for their income theft in the way of service from the government.

As for it being unfairly burdensome on the poor, we still have social systems to care for our poor. It doesn’t have to be eliminated. And it can be levied differently on different products. Food doesn’t need to be taxed the same as televisions or cars.

If Cleveland had taken Shadeur in first round, would they have still taken Gabriel?

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taxes are the most regressive of all taxes and shift the tax burden to the lower income tiers and trap them in their station in life as you are taking more of their income in taxes as they consume more. Just rip the mask off and say you hate poor people. Just be honest about it and own it.

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I don’t hate poor people. I just realize that there will always be poor people and rigging a tax system to benefit them doesn’t make them wealthy.

I would much rather celebrate and encourage wealth and production by giving tax incentive.

And fwiw- under no condition is it “Fair” for an anyone to take what you’ve earned even if it’s cloaked as a government.

It’ll come down to earnings

We have first quarter numbers coming in and so far they been good. Some heavy hitters reporting this week

Four of the Magnificent Seven companies— Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms and Microsoft — will release their quarterly reports this week. Also, Heavyweights Visa, Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly and Berkshire Hathaway are also releasing.
Earnings results have been somewhat strong this quarter, with 73% of companies reporting so far beating analysts' estimates — below the 5-year average of 77%, according to FactSet data.


If we see some of these companies beat expectations, we’ll see the market praise stock prices

He’s a distraction

He cannot see past himself.

Narcissist that uses Jesus to justify his narcissism

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You’re just not smart enough to understand these things.

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Can we get all that to happen before the mid term elections?

I use this board because I want the info because I don’t like clicking on links. I want one stop shop for my info.

Not too much to ask

At this point, He can’t surpass the annual pay he got last year

He’d be better off going back to college

Yeah, I don’t like Shadeur or his dad

He told some teams that he wanted to run HIS offense and now theirs.
He told some that we was interviewing them and not the other way around


This guy is toxic and it’s showing

They took him to be a backup