Reply #43: Great! There are some specific ideas...........

[socialist_n_TN]

and I guess that definitely means the rich SHOULD be asked to do more. But that wasn't even the question I was getting at. BTW, I personally had no problems with the tax rates during the pre Reagan years (as I recall) and DEFINITELY not during the Clinton presidency, so I wouldn't have a problem with either.

Sorry if I appear cranky. I'm not really. I was just looking for justification for keeping things the same for people who make a LOT of money and asking the rest of us to take what are in essence cuts to our social safety net. The words bandied about mostly by the deficit hawks (and I know there are not many on here) are "sacrifice" and "austerity". I can't figure out the justifications and I haven't even heard it MENTIONED, so I was asking for help. IOW, even if you don't BELIEVE it, what have you HEARD are the justifications.

Finally, maybe I come off as cranky because everytime some sort of redistribution idea comes up I see a few posts on HERE talking about, "stealing the rich's money". To me it's not stealing, it's THEM sacrificing TOO.

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