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If you want to truly feel superior you keep the handouts higher than the take home pay and never give someone the chance to dig their way out of poverty.
Give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime.......
right wingers would rather teach than give.....We have given to death and all we have are more welfare recipients...
Except you don't exactly teach anyone anything. All your mantra is that people should work, but you offer no idea or help on getting people into jobs that pay a livable salary :-P.
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Except you don't exactly teach anyone anything. All your mantra is that people should work, but you offer no idea or help on getting people into jobs that pay a livable salary :-P.
So why are you waiting for someone else to provide a job? Go start your own business and pay yourself whatever you want.
The bottom 50% pays little or no taxes. These people need to start carrying their own weight and stop relying on the rest of us to pick up the slack for them. I didn't suffer through all those years of college just so I could hand over more of my money to cover their portion of the tax revenue. I'm sick of dragging all this dead weight around.
Seems to me there should be a lifetime cap on taxes.
Once you've paid in around $5 million that ought to be considered enough for one person. You've clearly covered yourself and your family plus probably ten other people. How many people is one person supposed to carry?
The bottom 50% pays little or no taxes. These people need to start carrying their own weight and stop relying on the rest of us to pick up the slack for them. I didn't suffer through all those years of college just so I could hand over more of my money to cover their portion of the tax revenue. I'm sick of dragging all this dead weight around.
The tax code favors low income and very high income earners and the very wealthy.
Those with the 400 reported highest annual AGI ( more than $100 million) paid and average of an 18% tax rate. More than half paid a rate of 10-20%. 37/400 paid less than 10%.
The working poor with children tend not to pay federal tax.
For some reason, I'm getting ultra sensitive about all these threads and postings referring to *poor* people. Maybe we need to use a different adjective to describe a certain 'group' of people.
I AM POOR! But I certainly hope you are not referring to me!
I'm 51yrs , no dependents, single, and work FT @ $9.50/hr. I don't receive any gov help of any kind! I'm not eligible for ANYTHING! Every February (tax time) I file a straight form, with no extra candy of any kind. No extra forms to fill out.
So guess what? I am paying my taxes. Last 2 yrs my income taxes averaged 21%.
I also pay taxes every time I go to the store... Sales Tax. I pay taxes every time I fuel up the car. Every time I pay my monthly utilities.... there are taxes included (that I pay).
I live alone. I don't have anybody to share monthly expenses. So you do the math. At $9.50/hr.... I am poor! Now just exactly *who* are all these threads and postings referring to?
The tax code tends to punish singles / couples without children , who are not homeowners. This is nothing new.
Be aware you paid a higher tax rate than most of the 400 who had a reported AGI of $ 100 million or more. 37/400 paid less than 10% in federal taxes.
Ignore them. You're talking to people who think living off welfare is the same as living in a nice, wonderful, gated community where the entire (black) household eats lobster tail for dinner every night the whole month
21% is impossible according to "the math" and the figures you posted.
State tax?
Payroll taxes?
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