Kat wrote on May 20^th, 2013 at 1:48pm:


Missing out are you pussie try working

"Then we used to tie an onion to our belt, which was the style at the time."

Kat wrote on May 20^th, 2013 at 1:48pm:


Right, Kat, it's not theft, it's taxation.

Swagman wrote on May 17^th, 2013 at 2:09pm:


Well, that's fine, because single males with no kids don't really need that much money. While I am sure some of them do want kids in the future, we should wait until they get a woman pregnant first.

warrigal wrote on May 19^th, 2013 at 5:20am:


From my experience it's your parents or your married friends who expect you to have kids. There is less pressure on you from other singles to have kids. I think everyone should make up their own mind as to whether they want kids and not submit to other people's expectations.

Kat wrote on May 20^th, 2013 at 9:35am:


If having kids was our patriotic duty, I don't hear the government saying much about it. If it is really so important for us to have kids, it's the government's job to make laws to force us to do that. Unfortunately, the government doesn't seem to have the courage to do that because it isn't PC. Well, good for us. Where's the tough love? Why does the government like using the carrot more than the stick?

The Heartless Felon wrote on May 21^st, 2013 at 5:52am:


Gross income is really just an indication of your market value. It is not, however, an indication of your personal needs or the effort you put into your work. If income is an indication of the value of your work, then its significance is relative. It tells you that your work is better than someone else's work. Because it's relative, however, the number itself is not a true measure of the value of your work. It's how you compare to everyone else that is important.

We could adjust people's net income without affecting their relative "ranking" in terms of gross income. I would only regard it as "theft" if a high-income earner doesn't end up better off than a low-income earner. If taxes don't deprive me of my relative position in the "ladder" or "hierarchy" of gross income, I wouldn't see it as theft. It's because it hasn't robbed me of my sense of self-worth. Salaries and wages are just ego-boosters.

I think there should be limits on income tax as well as limits on people's net income. There needs to be a balance. Income tax should never be so high so as to result in a net income for a particular person that is lower than someone else with a lower gross income. The relationship between gross income and net income should be a one-to-one function. A higher gross income should always result in a higher net income. I don't agree with the concept in France where they effectively reduced the net income to zero for some people.

Swagman wrote on May 20^th, 2013 at 12:11pm:


The money isn't your's until you get paid and you put it in the bank. Once the money goes into your bank account, they can't touch it. It's only then that it's theft. I can understand the feeling of doing all that hard work and not getting what you wanted out of it, but the important thing is that you still end up better off than someone with a lower gross income. You may not be able to afford that new house, but at least you're still better off.