Saw this crap on Facebook and posted this response.

[humbled_opinion]

95. applaud your response

but it is never convincing to the teaheads i.e. the argument the teaheads where I work at make is that the President is missing the larger point that being that Snoopy's i.e., already pays taxes to support all those things you mentioned. They argue that the President is declaring that Snoopy's etc, are not paying a fair share, when in fact the majority of working people in America don't pay or pay very little federal tax. They continue, If Snoopy's was somehow getting exempted from paying taxes than of course you would have a point. Their argument is when is enough taxes enough. IOW they claim that most people do not pay federal income tax because it is a progressive tax, the more you make the more they take... The owner of Snoopy's may hire 10 - 20 people and at the end of a business year he may only personally take home 100k in salary but he is taxed on the entire net that the business took in i.e. 400k or so but after he pays salaries and expenses the 100k is what is left over.

Than they go on and on about how calling on the rich to pay for more and more spending can never be the answer because eventually you will take all the money from the rich but the programs will still need to be funded so that cost will roll down hill from there to the lowest level...

and then of course I always hear this obscure quote that no one can adequately attribute to anyone in particular but they claim is sounds convincing.....

"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship."


So they continue the Democrats are the party of promises of benefits and they extrapolate the consequences from there...