[Harry Lime]

Leondros, did you not post yourself the chart showing that the negative taxation effects those making above 200K/year? That is not the uber-rich, but certainly not the middle class as blankall suggests.

At a certain point the scale of money that we are talking about in terms of personal income becomes a number that is not being returned to the local economy by the people that are earning it.

Also, I would venture that if people making over 200K/year are working 75 hours per week, then they need to restructure their own life/work ratio to enjoy their own pre-retirement years. If there is a lack of incentive for people to work excessively, that is probably a good thing for the people themselves.

Also, I'd like to apologize to blankall, I did not mean you personally were saying that poor people were lazy, but rather generally that many times in this thread it was insinuated that 20K/year would cause a general malaise, which is a statement with no basis in reality. I can't imagine someone refusing to work because they can afford Netflix for free.