LOL. You mean you believe the teachers union has the right to take food off your table so they can retire with full pay and benefits at age 55?

I don't see any teachers and public employees throwing money at me so I can have a free ride.

Originally Posted by: vegOmatic 

LOL. You mean you believe the teachers union has the right to take food off your table so they can retire with full pay and benefits at age 55?

I don't see any teachers and public employees throwing money at me so I can have a free ride.

Originally Posted by: vegOmatic 

Those teachers and public employees signed a legal contract for their services which included a pension; and now Walker thinks he has the right to just take that away from them?

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Then why hasn't anybody sued Walker for violating their legal contract? Or are we being overly simplistic?

Originally Posted by: Porforis 

I don't know what you Sconi's do. ..

Is it that important for the top 10% to keep lining their pockets off the misery of the masses?

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Got to love the concept that the rich wanting to get richer is an evil premise. If libs would devote all the energy and creativity that they spend worrying about how much the rich make on doing something productive, maybe the US GDP wouldn't be in the crapper.

Another note: Unions bribe , I mean "contribute," money and votes exclusively to democrat politicians. Democrats, in turn, agree to take lots of tax money to give union workers great benefits and other entitlements. If I was not in one of these unions, I would be pretty pissed that my tax money was being used in this borderline bribe/redistribution setup. I would probably say that it is great to tear up such an unfair contract.

Originally Posted by: dyeah_gb 

All I want is for the rich to pay taxes on all their income and not get to shelter it anymore. It's time to start putting some of these fucks in the cages with Bubba and Tyrone. You can not deny that the tax code is set up to benefit the wealthy, and they do everything in their power to avoid their taxes. So when people whine about redistribution of wealth, I both want to laugh and smack a capitalist.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

I'm asking this because I don't really know. It seems to me that the rich people manipulated those in office to gain tax breaks here and there, or maybe rich people told such an such candidate if you pass this tax break for the rich, I'll finance this portion of your campaign plus your family has free use of my limo ... something like that ... any of that true or am I way off?

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

And yet we keep on voting for candidates that want to "fix" the tax code by adding new taxes for the wealthy or tax breaks for other people. Tell me, if the system is rotten and ridiculously complex, why don't we hear anybody - Democrat or Republican seriously pressing for simplification of the tax code? Besides the fact that they'll piss off a bunch of people because thousands of accountants and tax professionals will lose their jobs. Another example of how politics gets in the way of solutions. It's not a perfect solution but it sure beats more of the same old and piling more code on top of the existing beast.

Originally Posted by: Porforis