Stephen King... in his own words...

[funkfool]

Confiscatory taxes....


Gotta get rid of those books...

[BPTactical]

This is what happens when you incur a brain injury after being hit by a car.
Maybe that is what makes a Libtard

[Tweety Bird]

If he really wants to pay 50% of his $$ in taxes, he could just write Boy Zero a check.

But he won't do that because these shitheads never put their money where their (loud)mouths are.

[Buzzkill69]

It wouldn't bother me one bit if they taxed the million/billionaires 50% as long as it alleviated some of the middle/lower class tax burden. If it help's them sleep better at night thinking "I did my part" and it puts a little more coin in my pocket, I'm all for it!!!

[gcrookston]

I personally support a flat tax. An interesting article from the Von Mises Institute a few years ago, supported with sound math, substantiated a tax of less than 6% on everyone could balance the budget within 3 quarters and eliminate the deficit within 7 years.

P.S. The gov. of Maine, Ohio and Michigan have the fiscal aptitude of a box of hair...

[Bailey Guns]

What a fuckin' moron.

[Tweety Bird]

I personally support a flat tax. An interesting article from the Von Mises Institute a few years ago, supported with sound math, substantiated a tax of less than 6% on everyone could balance the budget within 3 quarters and eliminate the deficit within 7 years.

P.S. The gov. of Maine, Ohio and Michigan have the fiscal aptitude of a box of hair...

I also support a flat tax but I don't think 6% would do the trick. With a GDP of 14 trillion dollars, 6 percent works out to around 840 billion. That might have been enough 20 years ago, but not today.

Our current annual national budget is in the neighborhood of 1.3 to 1.5 trillion dollars so $840B would leave us short. Way short. That would mean a 40% cut in the national budget would be in order just to balance the books AND WE ALL KNOW THAT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, much as we'd like it to. So a 6% flat tax would have us continuing to fall behind, much as we are now.

I think it's going to have to be more like 10 to 15 percent if it's going to balance the budget AND pay down the debt.

But here's the rub. For the last 2 decades, politicians have routinely spent 20 to 40% more money than they have taken in. So could we really trust them with more tax revenue? I suspect not because the thing they don't seem to understand in DC is that IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID!!!

[Aloha_Shooter]

The gov. of Maine, Ohio and Michigan have the fiscal aptitude of a box of hair...

I beg to differ WRT John Kasich. Kasich was responsible for the efforts of the Gingrich Congress to balance the budget and he's doing the same thing for Ohio. I would have much preferred Kasich to Dole in '96 or Bush in '00 and '04 or McCain in '08.