Tax the Rich?

[Hoosier Daddy]

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577305302658158454.html

In an eternal irony unique to large welfare states, it is the expansion of government in the name of the poor and middle class that always costs poor and middle-class families the most. When the U.S. collects 16.1% of GDP in income taxes, the top 10% of taxpayers pay 7.3% and the other 90% pick up 8.9%.

In France, however, they collect 24.3% of GDP in income taxes with the top 10% paying 6.8% and the rest paying a whopping 17.5% of GDP. Sweden collects its 28.5% of GDP through income taxes by tapping the top 10% for 7.6%, but the other 90% get hit for a back-breaking 20.9% of GDP.

If the U.S. spent and taxed like France and Sweden, it would hardly affect the top 10%, who would pay about what they pay now, but the bottom 90% would see their taxes double.

[Kadelic]

Here's a clickable link :)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 58454.html

So what do we do?

[74novaman]

So what do we do?

Stop spending at absurd rates.

Heard on the radio that if you decided to run the US govt on the latest megamillions jackpot, you'd be broke in 61 minutes.

That's a sustainable level of spending, right?