By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that,

Well let’s tax them more and stop that. That may we will go into a recession where the less affluent will bear the brunt of it.

  • NeuromancerOPM
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    5 months ago

    I looked but it’s irrelevant.

    It’s a 100% relevant. We can’t have a conversation if you won’t be intellectually honest.

    I normally abandon a thread when it’s not productive. If you deny the real world then there is little value in a conversation.

    All Americans should be taxed at a similar pain level. It encourages people to stop voting for stupid spending.

      • NeuromancerOPM
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        5 months ago

        Then please directly answer the many questions I’ve posed which you refuse to acknowledge, like the ones in my previous message on this thread. It’s a two-way street dude.

        It’s not my job is answer every strange question you ask. I focus on the ones that make sense and ignore the others.

        We have a spending problem in this country. The democrat gave tricked to think it’s a taxing issue. It isn’t. We could take all the billionaires money and we’d still not cover our spending for a year.

        We need to spend less.

          • NeuromancerOPM
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            5 months ago

            the democrat gave tricked to think it’s a taxing issue.

            The Democrats tricked you into thinking it’s a taxing issue.

              • NeuromancerOPM
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                5 months ago

                This president has been one of the worst. The last president who really did a decent job with spending was Clinton. Otherwise, they have all spent more than they brought it.

                The Democrats want you to believe if the top 5% paid more then all our problems would be solved. It wouldn’t. We spend too much as a country. The only way to tax our way our of it is everyone pays their fair share and stop expecting 5% to pay the bulk of the taxes. The top 5% pays the bulk of the taxes far larger than their income.

                You can tax your way out of stupid spending.

                  • NeuromancerOPM
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                    5 months ago

                    It’s not just a spending problem. There are also problems with the tax code itself, loopholes the rich can use to reduce their tax contributions, military overspending, IRS audits not being done on the richest who are overestimating their debt and underestimate their assets, and so many other problems that are not specific to whatever president we currently have.

                    A lot of wrongness in this. There are no loopholes. The system is designed the way it is. Don’t ever think it was a mistake.

                    We don’t overspend on the military. We are slightly above our NATO commitment.

                    IRS audits the wealthy, guess what, when you hire a lawyer and account to do your taxes they are often accurate.