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With the Bush tax cuts I see people who get a tax return check for more then they paid in, so it's worse then some folks not paying taxes, they are essentially getting a welfare check at the end of the year.
Yep. Already documented by the Chairman of the Economics Department at Harvard University, here:
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Because transfer payments are, in effect, the opposite of taxes, it makes sense to look not just at taxes paid, but at taxes paid minus transfers received. For 2009, the most recent year available, here are taxes less transfers as a percentage of market income (income that households earned from their work and savings):
Bottom quintile: -301 percent
Second quintile: -42 percent
Middle quintile: -5 percent
Fourth quintile: 10 percent
Highest quintile: 22 percent
Top one percent: 28 percent
The negative 301 percent means that a typical family in the bottom quintile receives about $3 in transfer payments for every dollar earned.
The most surprising fact to me was that the effective tax rate is negative for the middle quintile. According to the CBO data, this number was +14 percent in 1979 (when the data begin) and remained positive through 2007. It was negative 0.5 percent in 2008, and negative 5 percent in 2009. That is, the middle class, having long been a net contributor to the funding of government, is now a net recipient of government largess.
Yesterday, you start a thread in which you throw a tantrum that insurance companies are willing to foot the bill to hire private firefighters to protect the homes (which they insure) of rich people.
SIXTEEN HOURS LATER, you start this thread, in which you state that the GOP is fanning the flames of class warfare.
Sorry, pal, but that makes you a MAJOR FREAKING HYPOCRITE.
Being an outsider, I don't really know the difference between Republican and Democrat, which is probably a good thing. Through the ears of a laymen...what I hear is the cry of betrayal from a nation injured by those who achieved economic success and did not know where to go from there- other than continue to climb a ladder of greed without purpose- Perhaps classic capitalism has bloomed...stayed in full flower and now it wilts. Everything has a start and an end. There is a rush to plant seeds of a new order...and order that is like a departing plane with limited seating.
Instead of finding a way to achieve mutual co-operation and common survival.....it is every man for himself. Like men in a desert fighting over the last bottle of water..Instead of each taking sip and all walking out to safety- One wants to guzzle all the water and sacrifice the rest. There is no politically actuated eugenics....that would suggest someone is in control- This election has a flavor called panic.
They had better figure out quickly there will be no winners at this rate...Who ever wins will still sit at the head of a table where food will not be served....AMERICA will continue to decline. Competition was what drove AMERICA forward- it is now what will drag it to it's knees- Mutual co-operation is the only hope...Those how seek office for powers sake and nothing else will only add to decline.
Yesterday, you start a thread in which you throw a tantrum that insurance companies are willing to foot the bill to hire private firefighters to protect the homes (which they insure) of rich people.
SIXTEEN HOURS LATER, you start this thread, in which you state that the GOP is fanning the flames of class warfare.
Sorry, pal, but that makes you a MAJOR FREAKING HYPOCRITE.
As some cry fire in a theater - others set a fire...and others fan the flames - while cut throat opportunist set up outside the theater to sell bandages and pain killers to the burn victims.
There is no politically actuated eugenics....that would suggest someone is in control
There is somebody in control. People like the multi-billionaire Koch brothers, who not only pour money into elections in obscene amounts, but have the temerity to actually write legislation which benefits only the elites and pay their toadies to pass it. There is a whole cabal of wealthy industrialist's who have perverted the electoral process through a byzantine collection of inter-related think tanks, public interest organizations, political action committees, lobbyists, media outlets and law firms.
They fund and direct the most relentless assault on The People ever seen in this country.
Yesterday, you start a thread in which you throw a tantrum that insurance companies are willing to foot the bill to hire private firefighters to protect the homes (which they insure) of rich people.
SIXTEEN HOURS LATER, you start this thread, in which you state that the GOP is fanning the flames of class warfare.
Sorry, pal, but that makes you a MAJOR FREAKING HYPOCRITE.
So, if I start a thread offering up an example of the special benefits the elites get, I'm a hypocrite? I'm the one practicing class warfare? That's a bit like calling me an arsonist because I reported someone starting a fire.
But, on second thought, I AM engaging in class warfare! It's not a war I sought, not a war I wanted and not a war I started, but by GOD I will NOT lay down and surrender to my would be masters without a fight.
As CPT John Parker said on Lexington green in 1775, "...if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
So, if I start a thread offering up an example of the special benefits the elites get, I'm a hypocrite?
What special benefits do they get that no one else can also get for paying the same price?
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