“The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending”. As Grover Norquist inquired politicians want to kept their own money in their pockets while taking money from the people. The reason why citizens want to increase taxes is because they want to get rid of the nation's financial debt. Raising taxes on the rich has been a topic of debate for quite awhile now. People feel like they should tax the rich more than the middle class and the poor because they have more money to give. There are two groups of people on this debate. The first group are for this idea of increased taxing of the rich they mostly include the middle and lower class. The other side of this debate do not want this
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Robert Riech once stated about the subject,“If the rich were taxed at the same rates they were half a century ago, they'd be paying over $350 billion more this year [2011] alone, which translates into trillions over the next decade”(1f). In the passage above talks about how the rich is being taxed differently from the pass. If the rich were taxed the same amount as they were half a century ago, we could probably pay off over half, if not all, of america's insufficiencies. Wealthy Americans have been under taxed for decades; they only care about their own hard earned money, and think the working classes earnings. Robert R. stated in an article that, "If the rich were taxed at the same rates they were half a century ago, they'd be paying ... enough to accomplish everything the nation needs while also reducing future deficits." (1f). If we committed to taxing the rich more, American shortcomings would be lower. If we had lower deficits we could focus more of the nation’s money on providing more jobs for middle and lower class. Americans have had to overcome challenges since the birth of this nation, this is just another obstacle we must
Robert Riech once stated about the subject,“If the rich were taxed at the same rates they were half a century ago, they'd be paying over $350 billion more this year [2011] alone, which translates into trillions over the next decade”(1f). In the passage above talks about how the rich is being taxed differently from the pass. If the rich were taxed the same amount as they were half a century ago, we could probably pay off over half, if not all, of america's insufficiencies. Wealthy Americans have been under taxed for decades; they only care about their own hard earned money, and think the working classes earnings. Robert R. stated in an article that, "If the rich were taxed at the same rates they were half a century ago, they'd be paying ... enough to accomplish everything the nation needs while also reducing future deficits." (1f). If we committed to taxing the rich more, American shortcomings would be lower. If we had lower deficits we could focus more of the nation’s money on providing more jobs for middle and lower class. Americans have had to overcome challenges since the birth of this nation, this is just another obstacle we must