Whats Fair When it Comes to Taxes?

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by firstdown

So I need to stay in a lower income bracket because my neighbors decide that they are OK making $35,000 a year? Why should I feel the need to hold myself back because others make the poor or wrong decisions? You also say people are stuck in the back and never catch up. Good thing not all people have this mind set or they would never make it in life. Its sad that people actually think that way because they then tell people on the bottom there is no hope for them only hurting them even more. I was told because I did not have a College Degree I could never get the job I have today. If I listened to those people then I'd be probably be stuck in a dead end job. How come the Chinese lady down the street could come here speaking no english and little to no money and now own three dry cleaners? The only dead end in America is the dead end that people allow to be put in or behind. Is it harder for some then others. Yes, see the chinese lady but if people have the will they can suceed.

Your right. If people were told "you can't" or "never will" then they won't. You didn't listen to them good job. But what about the single mother with 5 kids who can't afford to pay for child care and work at McDonalds... the only place to would hire her? In VA when she goes to Social Services and asks for help or "assistance" they tell her she has a job or she makes too much money due to the job and they can't help her. So what does that mother do? She quits her job and then refiles and gets the full benifits for what they think a mother with 5 kids should get instead of simply supplementing what she was already making.

Our system of Gov. is bad from the top all the way down to the county level.