# Anybody else see the U.S. credit rating drop? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [August 5, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802 "2011-08-05T19:12:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 42
### Author: ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady) #### Post date: [August 8, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802/42 "2011-08-08T18:13:17Z")
> [@So you think your harley is the badest thing on 2 wheels ...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-you-think-your-harley-is-the-badest-thing-on-2-wheels/44463/11): > > Who is he to judge his labor is harder then everybody elses? Are we going to base salary strictly of labor now? Well goodbye regular CEO salary and hello to coal miners making millions. > > How about all the kids that simply inherit the wealth and live off it without ever having to work hard, while their employees can be working their asses off. > > It takes money to make money. Major taxation is part of that making money. > > Why is he only making 10 million and not 20? Obviously he could be working harder and making more money. Or is he going to blame this on someone too? 10 mil a year isn’t enough to live on? Hahah > > No wonder shit is going down hill. Maybe what my post was vague, but you took it a little off of what the point was… had nothing to do with how hard someone worked labor wise and im pretty sure you know thats not what it meant While yes, I feel as though someone making 10 million could probably spare a million a year thats not the point… Point is, if someone has money, whether they worked hard and made all the right moves, caught an easy break and made bank, inherited it, won it in a lawsuite whatever they earned that money, whether they worked their ass off for it, or got lucky… unfortunately some people catch breaks, we get jealous when we see it happen to other people, but most of us in reality would probably feel the same way if we were the ones with the big incomes getting ~20%+ getting taken from us yearly… It is not any of ours or the governments business to determine how much we can spare and assume it wont affect are quality of living. Yes thats stretching it a bit, but say someone makes over a million a year, around 1.5 there getting a little over 300K a year taken away from them in taxes… thats quite a bit, now I doubt they would be financially hurting if it went up another few percent, but how are we to know? Maybe it will put a little bit of strain on the way they are used to living, a privilege they earned no matter how they came about the money. Lets say you work someplace, you make 500 a week, everyone else only makes 300… If I started taking ~100 bucks a week out of your paycheck because you can afford it how would you feel? You’d probably be pretty pissed if someone started taking money the thought you could do without without ever knowing how it would affect your quality of living that you earned. If your making 10 million a year and living that millionare lifestyle, a couple million a year comming out of you in taxes coudl be that “blanket” money if you will… No one needs a million dollar house, no one needs a garage full of ferarris, no one needs a lot of shit, but if they have the money and they did what they had to for it, they have every right to enjoy that lifestyle and want to keep it without missing a beat. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802)._