Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Left wingers?

Ehm, what? A left winger would say that government should pay for everything, of course, not the private sector... Or, of cours, let the state run the entire economy.
A significant segment of left wing, liberal thinkers in this nation have an "us vs them" mentality when it comes to employers and employees. In many cases this is entirely justified. In other cases, it is understandable, because a person who has been "the help" all his natural life will be inclined to side with "the help." But I feel that a lot of liberals, particulalry the young ones, downplay the whole job creation/continuation in terms of smaller business entities; on the flip side, conservatives overplay their hand and every time businesses have to comply to a new law, the sky starts falling.

The fact that payroll taxes make up an equal amount of revenue for the fed seems as if it is a double edged sword. When employment and GDP is down both of these will drop. As for the estate tax, people will always die, but I would be curious to see what sort of percentage this estate tax would make of the federal coffers based on which filthy rich people died that year. For example, if old man Hilton and old lady Walton died in the same fiscal year, I would be willing to bet that total would be more than 1%