# Occupy Wallstreet

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**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647 "2011-09-29T12:57:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647/33 "2011-10-03T11:58:14Z")

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> [@I \<3 the internet, F the handouts](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-3-the-internet-f-the-handouts/45784/19):
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> I love when people bring up rich paying more taxes.
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> It’s their greed that makes them pay more because they make more and corporations are seeing record profits.
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> Wanna pay less taxes? Make less money.
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> Fine keep the rich tax the way it is, make it less for all I care and tax the poor but let then make more money.
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> No poor person will complain if they are taxed $10k more a year if they are allowed to make $20k more a year.
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> This is exactly what the rich are bitching about. They are seeing a very good 10+ years that allows them to make record profits but they don’t want to pay more.

from the Economist " In 2008, the top 1% paid 38% of all federal income taxes, and the top 5% paid 58%."

I don’t want my taxes to increase any more than any other middle class citizen, but we aren’t going to regain our budget from taxing the wealthy. We need less Government and less Government spending.

You making the rich out to be the bad guy is bullshit, you aren’t seeing the bigger picture. It’s not taxation that got us in to this mess, it’s spending

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