How does raising taxes on someone else help you?

How does raising taxes on someone else help me? 2 ways - 1 - It keeps necessary programs working and government offices open. When I need them they will be there. 2 - It protects my pockets. If the money is coming out of someone else's pockets it is not coming out of mine. Due to this past recession my weekly take home is $80 less than last year (I lost my job and had to find a new one) and my husband's take home has increased by $16 a week - so we have lost $64 a week (more than $3,000 a year) but prices on necessities have been skyrocketing - food, gas, etc. And, a lot of other people are worse off than we are. So, if they want to take more taxes out of someone else, I am all for it - IF they can actually collect those taxes. The wealthiest people and corporations are also the ones most likely to be paying little to no income taxes or actually to be receiving payments back from the government - just look at GE's record.

raising taxes on others, more specifically the wealthy and corporations in the usa, gets them into the game. right now corporations here have a 35% tax rate. terrible and apparently the highest in the world. however, the real corporate tax rate average is 6%, among the lowest in the world. the raise to individuals making over $250,000 is 4%. This is the same amount they haven't paid for the past ten years. if these are the people who are the "job creators", where are the jobs they created during the bush years? i don't think many of us want to unfairly burden corporations or wealthy individuals with unfair taxes, but if corporations make record profits and pay zero taxes, and get tax credits and the wealthy pay thousands to tax lawyers to avoid taxes, the slack (the amount they're not paying) must be taken up by the middle class. They may be paying the greatest percentage of taxes, but the are making extraordinary amounts of money and have been since the eisenhower administration. to attempt to balance our budget by cutting medicare, medicaid, and social security benefits is unfair and immoral.

Once a tax is imposed on any one sooner or later it works it way done to more people. I have seen several states impose a sales tax to solve a financial problem only to find that they have to raise it every few years. Once the government has more tax money they spend it and then some then they need more money.

I have no problem at all paying more in taxes, as long as it helps the country out. The last time I checked, we ALL are in this mess together, and we ALL should have to work to get out of it. I hate to tell you this, but history shows that raising taxes to pay down debt, then lowering them spurs the economy. It worked for Reagan and Clinton. We have cut taxes three times in the last 10 years, and the economy is struggling to create a job. Please show me where ONLY cutting taxes has actually netted more than 1 million jobs?

To keep it short and simple....because they want someone else to pay the bills...not them. It's always better to spend somone elses money in a lot of peoples opinion. LOL

Well in the case of what's going on in America it does several things. 1 It can help alleviate cuts to programs that 90% of the people use and depend on. 2 If someone else pays a higher tax the budget can be closer to balanced without you paying a higher tax. 3 Probably most the most important one of all. When it comes to raising taxes on the rich or super rich it inhibits stagnation. Here's why number 3 is so important. We all have jobs, if we spend most of what we make, most of the money we make continues to circulate and we keep each other employed through using each others services. Say there's one dollar, 20 people each use it to buy something in a big circle from one person to the next. That dollar has just produced 20 dollars worth of services and thus added $20 to the gdp. Stagnation occurs when people save money or make more than they can spend. If someone doesn't spend the dollar it might then only be used for $10 in production, therefore the other 10 people lost $1 in usable revenue. Now lets take rich people, say Bill Gates (nothing against him personally). His estimated worth was $56 billion. Lets just say he actually had $56 billion in a vault somewhere and decided not to spend it. That's $56 billion out of circulation or in the case of 20 people passing around the same dollar about 1 trillion out of the GDP. Yes that's a little higher than what it would have come out to at least in the short term, but you see the point. Now if you start taxing the crap out of that $56 bil it starts moving around again creating lots of jobs. Basically, what we have happening in America, is that all the rich people and corporations are either making far more than they can put back into circulation; or collectively hoarding billions of dollars. Which equals many more billions of dollars of jobs disappearing. Now that the jobs are gone the market sucks so they won't invest and possibly save more so the problem only gets worse. If they suddenly start paying more taxes that money starts moving again and eventually that dollar bill gets passed to more people essentially creating new jobs. Bar another economic lesson, the rich are collecting all the money by way of saving or by incredibly disproportionate salaries and it's killing the economy, which they themselves need to keep making money. Of course when you have the money to buy more than you could possibly use what's the incentive to actually spend it? If that was all to complicated think of it like Italian dressing. As long as you stir it, the dressing stays mixed and you have good dressing. If you stop, it starts to separate (stagnation). Eventually, you just have all the oil (money {ironic isn't it}) on top, and everything else (people/jobs) just sits on the bottom doing nothing. Spending stirs the dressing, investing stirs the dressing, and lastly taxes can stir the dressing. Thinking of the oil as money, the less that sits on top the more there is going around everywhere else. If it starts to settle on top that's everyone else from bottom up going broke. On a personal level, that's what I have against the rich. Not that they are rich or have more; but that they take so much more than they can practically use, that it's costing others what they need.

I think raising taxes because of envy is a wrong thing. Also I believe that there should be a tax free base that anyone below it should not have to pay income tax and what income tax they have should be returned. I am also against so much regulations and red tapes that make it unable for businesses to hire, such as Obamacare. The thing is where taxes are concerned, those who scream for higher taxes, just think of the federal income tax. They do not consider the state income tax and the other taxes that these individuals pay. I can see eliminating some deductions, but not charity deductions because they help those who are wealthy give more to the poor and charities for churches because the charities pay for the pastor's salaries, etc. Raising taxes however would cause businesses to let more people go, and once you start, you cannot stop.

The only thing that would help any of us would be if all wage earning Americans actually paid some taxes. It helps none of us if they raise taxes on the rich or on corporations. Of course they're not creating jobs right now. This is the most unfriendly to business administration we've ever had. The cost of business has gone up because of fuel costs, because of regulations, because of what they're already forced to do under Obamacare and what they'll be forced to do under Obamacare later. Having a government that changes its mind as the wind blows means that the risk of expansion is great. Why bother?

This is a pretty loaded question, because it's very assuming and finger-pointing. The government runs on money, and it has to come from somewhere. I've personally never cheered when taxes have been raised, because it's not exactly surprising. One way or another, I don't like to hear people complain when they have enough money to eat, are treated with dignity, and are comfortable in their daily lives. If paying more taxes to pay for the many things our government has to do doesn't interfere with personal happiness and comfort, it's not a problem.