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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1042134" data-attributes="member: 2189">OK, one last time.&nbsp; Your farm has nothing whatsoever to do with the broader point I was making.&nbsp; This point alone that you made, I took it but expanded out to a far broader context to include everyone and it was to make a point about the destructive nature of taxation and the harm it does to the greater economy to the benefit of the privilege who control the reigns of power.&nbsp; I was responding as if your post was this and this only.&nbsp;&nbsp; I used bold in the hopes of achieving that effect.My point is that the nature of taxation contrary to even Mitt Romney&#039;s myth making, the real purchasing power of someone making less that $10 per hour is $4 per hour.&nbsp; The other $6 goes to the flat income tax of 7.5% we know as social security and medicare, whatever federal income tax they might pay, a state income tax should they live in such state and then of course the sales tax we all pay at any point of purchase, unless of course you have some black and gray market connections, wink/wink! What about the embedded fuel taxes we all pay each time we fill up?&nbsp; You think all that money goes to the cost of the gasoline itself?&nbsp;&nbsp; But all goods and services have hidden taxation built into their prices which we pay but we assume it&#039;s a cost of the actual production of the good or service itself.&nbsp; &nbsp; And this goes back to my comment on the Fair Tax.The real purchasing power of all Americans is eroded by observable and hidden taxation and that was the point.&nbsp; It was not an attack on how you run your farm nor was it ever intended as such.&nbsp; It was an attack square on the taxation system of this country and it&#039;s means of using such to shift wealth out of of the working class and up the economic chain under corp. or finance capitalism.&nbsp;&nbsp; The gov&#039;t is starving for revenue and working stiffs can&#039;t generate what it needs so it harvests more and more money from us and shifts it up so it&#039;s used globally in the hopes of achieving a greater ROI.&nbsp; Get ready, regardless of who wins the election, the weight of the hammer especially on working people is going to get worse.&nbsp; Why do you think they are tightening down the screws more and more on any dissent?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1042134, member: 2189"] OK, one last time. Your farm has nothing whatsoever to do with the broader point I was making. This point alone that you made, I took it but expanded out to a far broader context to include everyone and it was to make a point about the destructive nature of taxation and the harm it does to the greater economy to the benefit of the privilege who control the reigns of power. I was responding as if your post was this and this only. I used bold in the hopes of achieving that effect. My point is that the nature of taxation contrary to even Mitt Romney's myth making, the real purchasing power of someone making less that $10 per hour is $4 per hour. The other $6 goes to the flat income tax of 7.5% we know as social security and medicare, whatever federal income tax they might pay, a state income tax should they live in such state and then of course the sales tax we all pay at any point of purchase, unless of course you have some black and gray market connections, wink/wink! What about the embedded fuel taxes we all pay each time we fill up? You think all that money goes to the cost of the gasoline itself? But all goods and services have hidden taxation built into their prices which we pay but we assume it's a cost of the actual production of the good or service itself. And this goes back to my comment on the Fair Tax. The real purchasing power of all Americans is eroded by observable and hidden taxation and that was the point. It was not an attack on how you run your farm nor was it ever intended as such. It was an attack square on the taxation system of this country and it's means of using such to shift wealth out of of the working class and up the economic chain under corp. or finance capitalism. The gov't is starving for revenue and working stiffs can't generate what it needs so it harvests more and more money from us and shifts it up so it's used globally in the hopes of achieving a greater ROI. Get ready, regardless of who wins the election, the weight of the hammer especially on working people is going to get worse. Why do you think they are tightening down the screws more and more on any dissent? [/QUOTE]

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