Do any have cell phones? Cable TV? Do they eat Mac and cheese?
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Do any have cell phones? Cable TV? Do they eat Mac and cheese?
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It is not just Republicans who don't want a simple tax system. Look at contributions to Wall Street-it is significant on both sides-and as a result, we have a hedge fund subsidy for carried interest. A travesty.
Congress on both sides of the aisle doesn't want to simple tax system. it doesn't pay.
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Instead of working harder lefties spew hatred and resentment at the REAL people paying the bills...Get off the damn couch...
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lolio wrote:
See... wrote:
Top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50% paid the remaining 2.3%.
.Wow - you really didn't think this post through did you. If you did, it's even more concerning that you don't know how math or graduated tax systems work.
I worked in taxes for several years. Taxes work where the poor pay less than the wealthy.
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applied economics wrote:
So many on here are advocates for 1/2 billionaires and billionaires. Half billionaires and billionaires must be telling their bookkeepers to post on letsrun today.
And you advocate for money-clutching politicians who consistently outspend their tax revenue and have driven the USA into a national debt of $31,000,000,000,000 - though some argue it is much larger than that. Let's see, $31,000,000,000,000 divided by the US population of about 331,000,000 means a per capita debt of about $94,000. And since only roughly half the US population pays Federal taxes, a per Federal taxpayer debt of roughly $187,000.
It's long past time to stop with your class warfare and to reduce the insane spending.
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She ran calling \"Wildfire\" wrote:
applied economics wrote:
So many on here are advocates for 1/2 billionaires and billionaires. Half billionaires and billionaires must be telling their bookkeepers to post on letsrun today.
And you advocate for money-clutching politicians who consistently outspend their tax revenue and have driven the USA into a national debt of $31,000,000,000,000 - though some argue it is much larger than that. Let's see, $31,000,000,000,000 divided by the US population of about 331,000,000 means a per capita debt of about $94,000. And since only roughly half the US population pays Federal taxes, a per Federal taxpayer debt of roughly $187,000.
It's long past time to stop with your class warfare and to reduce the insane spending.
About 70% of the debt is either held by the US government or by american investors and institutions. It's silly to talk about the debt in terms of per capita owed.
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See... wrote:
Top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50% paid the remaining 2.3%.
.Consider a country of two people, someone exactly at the 1st percentile making 500k and someong at the 50th percentile making 40k. If they both paid equal proportions of their income as tax, the person in the 1st percentile would pay 92% of the tax and the person in the 50th percentile person would pay 8 percent of the tax. So your 97.7% doesn't sound that crazy. Its not too far off from them paying the same percent of their income as tax despite them making so much more.
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MatthewXCountry wrote:
See... wrote:
Top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50% paid the remaining 2.3%.
.Consider a country of two people, someone exactly at the 1st percentile making 500k and someong at the 50th percentile making 40k. If they both paid equal proportions of their income as tax, the person in the 1st percentile would pay 92% of the tax and the person in the 50th percentile person would pay 8 percent of the tax. So your 97.7% doesn't sound that crazy. Its not too far off from them paying the same percent of their income as tax despite them making so much more.
how you gonna have 2 people and one is in the 50th percentile
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Film Rep wrote:
Duh. It is hard to pay taxes when you got no taxable income.
The poor have income. But they don't pay.
☝️The working poor have very limited income - they shouldn't have to pay.
☝️Let the super-wealthy pay most of the taxes.
These billionaires & multi-millionaires have more dough that they know what to do with.
There's only so many yachts, Leer jets, mansions, beach front property, mountain resorts, etc, that can make a man happy.
If they weren't so greedy, they could pay all the income tax for this country.
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runnerboy70 wrote:
Instead of working harder lefties spew hatred and resentment at the REAL people paying the bills...Get off the damn couch...
kinda ironic coming from the guy who once said "slavery wasn't that bad"
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Thats why voting should be correlated to the amount of taxes you pay. If you dont pay much into the system why should you decide how it is spent? But it should include all taxes not only income tax.
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Tax foundation is a Republican outfit. They clearly have an agenda.
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Film Rep wrote:
Duh. It is hard to pay taxes when you got no taxable income.
No. Its easy not to care about how much the government wastes when you have no skin in the game.
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Tax Clinic Preparer wrote:
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Top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50% paid the remaining 2.3%.
.Hi all,
I am volunteer at a tax clinic preparing poor people's taxes. I can tell you these don't pay taxes because they literally cannot afford to... I prepare people's taxes from anywhere from 10k income to 35k in income. These people literally need every penny to live, they have no savings. No retirement etc. And even more sad, they are taking care of disabled grandparents that have no retirement. We are basically a poor country, that's why people so many pay so little in taxes. Yes, the rich do indeed to pony up and pay a lot more.
You miss the whole point. But that's ALWAYS the case with bleeding heart liberals whose decisions are based on emotion rather than logic.
When you teach people the other guy will pay, they don't care what is costs. When you teach them YOU will pay, all the sudden they are concerned where the money is going.
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A lot of the bootlickers don't seem to realise wealth is created by the poor. Nobody gets rich by working, you get rich by employing people poorer than you to work instead, and then paying them less than the money they made for you.
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See... wrote:
Top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50% paid the remaining 2.3%.
.Wow! And what is truly scary the percentage of their income that they pay in taxes is much lower than the middle class pays. Now that is filthy rich.
Thanks for bringing to our attention about how the middle class is screwed the rich!
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Statistics wrote:
A lot of the bootlickers don't seem to realise wealth is created by the poor. Nobody gets rich by working, you get rich by employing people poorer than you to work instead, and then paying them less than the money they made for you.
No. Not much is created by the bottom 50%. Running is the best example. every ounce of attention is towards the top 1 %. Everyone talks about them and want to see them run. Noone gives a single dollar for the bottom 50 %. They dont contribute or produce anything.
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Well that's a terrible example. Sports don't exist without the elite 1% having someone to beat.
Be dull just having two teams/individuals in every competition, playing endless against each other.
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What? Let's look at the few dozen people who break 13:20. There are thousands of runners who break 15 minutes. Whad do the tens of thousands of slowere runners contribute? The top runners never compete against anyone over 14 minutes.
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