Tax The Rich!

An IRS Tax Code Book

I was talking to a man, in McDonald's yesterday, when politics and taxes came up. In the conversation he said he was a 100 percent Socialist, and then said, "Tax the rich to feed the poor, until the rich are rich no more!"

I replied, "That sounds great, except for one little thing. When the poor are still poor, and the rich are now also poor, then who do we tax to feed all of us?"

His reply was, " Oh, I get it, you're one of those !&%#!*!, crazy, right wing, Republican NUT-JOBS!!" the last screamed at the top of his lungs, as he left.

The truth be told I think both the Republicans and the Democrats have strayed from their mission purposes, and beliefs. I refer to myself as a Fiercely Independent American. Part of the reason I support the Fair Tax.

The first income tax, in 1913, was four-hundred pages and "only" taxed the richest one percent. (sound familiar?) Soon everyone was being taxed because they could get more money from everyone than from just the top wealth earners. The tax-code has gone from four-hundred pages to 54,846 pages in 2003, to 73,608 pages in 2012.

I understand that our government needs money to operate, but so do I. I also believe our federal government has way overstepped its boundaries and needs to be knocked back into place. Their job is to; protect our borders, mint coinage, postal service, federal judicial system, and foreign diplomacy. The rest are states issues. I realize that going this far would be difficult, if not impossible, but the less thy have to deal with the better!

So, anyway, I got to thinking, instead of, "Tax the rich to feed the poor, until the rich are rich no more!" why don't we try pulling each other up instead of knocking each other down? How about a new mantra, "Let the rich teach the poor, until the poor are poor no more!" After all as Sophie Tucker once famously quipped, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better."