Dear Friends
Let's put tax cuts in terms which everyone can understand.
Suppose that every day, ten people go out for dinner. The
bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,
it would go something like this:
· The first four (the poorest) would pay nothing.
· The fifth would pay $1.
· The sixth would pay $3.
· The seventh $7.
· The eighth $12.
· The ninth $18.
· The tenth (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
They ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite
happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw
them a problem. "Since you are all such good customers, "the
owner said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal
by $20". So, now dinner for the ten only cost $80. The group
still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So,
the first four were unaffected, they would still eat for
free. What about the other six, the paying customers? How
could they divide up the $20 windfall so that everyone would
get their 'fair share'? The six paying customers realized
that $20 divided by six is $3.33. If they subtracted that
from everybody's share, then the fifth and the sixth would
each end up being 'PAID' to eat their meal. So, the
restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce
each person's bill by roughly the same amount, and proceeded
to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
· The fifth, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
· The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
· The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
· The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
· The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
· The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. The first four
continued to eat for free.
Once outside the restaurant, they began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth,
pointing to the tenth diner "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth. "I only saved a
dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than
me!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh. "Why should he get $10
back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four in unison. "We didn't
get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine surrounded and beat up the tenth diner.
The next night the tenth diner didn't show up for dinner, so
the nine sat down and ate without number ten. When it came
time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They didn't have enough money between all of them for even
half of the bill!
That, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is
how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest
taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
wie in obwalden.
Tax them toomuch, attack them for being wealthy, and they
just may not show up at the table any more.
deshalb schadet die steuerflucht allen.
der "steuerwettbewerb" ist scheisse.
There are lots of good restaurants out there in the world!
und geldwaschanlagen.
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