-mikkie2- wrote:All this talk about financial liability of a federal solution will boil down to one thing. If the GC's are the ones that have to pay for most of all this then can you people stop and think how every single GC tax payer will feel? You want political equality, you want limits of freedom of movement and on top of it, it may be that we are going to have to pick up the tab for most of this. Well I tell you that most GC's will actually feel very hard done by and you can bet you bottom dollar that most people will not view the TC community in a good way. People will be out in the streets demonstrating.
Whats the problem here? Within our consituent state we will pay out taxes and spend our taxes.
At the federal level if you insist we pay equaly (in absolute terms to the SCS) because we have political equality then we will take out from federal funds equaly. If we pay in proportionate to our population sizes then we will take out accordingly. Whats the problem?
Personally I would like to seem some sort of 'progressive' nature to taxation at all levels (progressive taxation means taxation based on income/ wealth and not equal taxation for all regardless of wealth) - but if it is going to 'upset' you I can live without it.
Do the richest say 10% in the RoC 'take to the streets' on the basis of the blatantly unfair situation that they pay more in but do not get to take more out in taxes?