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If you go get a second job, the government will reward you by taking a larger cut from your income. Doesn't that just really motivate you to want to work harder?
Now go get that second job so that you can be a little close to contributing your fair share.
You make a great point! Why should a person who earns more have to pay more. Lets look at a manager of a burger joint. He may end up working 80 hours a week for $800/week. Meanwhile, some of his workers make $10/hour doing bare minimums, and complain that they need a raise from their greedy boss.
There is nothing wrong with retirees not paying Federal Income tax; however, there is plenty wrong with working age folks not paying them, year after year after year, while feasting on the taxes of those who do pay FIT.
So if there is an exception for retired people and that is acceptable, why wouldn't the truly disabled people count too and get an exception? That tends to lower the 50% figure a bit.
And if retired individuals and disabled are counted, how about the children. We are talking population figures here. Children count in the population totals. How many of that 50% that don't pay taxes are the children of our nation?
Well I started looking around and using the latest census data, 23.3% of the nation are children under the age of 18.
14.1% of the population are retired, over 65 and 19% of the population are legally disabled. That's a total of 56.4% of the population that actually have a good excuse for not paying federal taxes.
The OP's original post said 50% don't pay taxes and it's time to Blah, blah, blah. In fact here's the OP's post and thread starter. It;s very clear, 50% of the population don't pay federal taxes.
No_More_Handouts "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".
So now that I've run the numbers for you Mr. Handout, what dead weight are you gonna get your taxes from? The retired?............The Disabled..............or how about the children?
Well I started looking around and using the latest census data, 23.3% of the nation are children under the age of 18.
Too many breed and don't consider the consequences that the children have to pay. Oh the mother gets a government check, oh number 5 is on the way. cool! they get a bigger government check. See how they could care less about the children. It's the parents fault. Why is it ok for them to bring children into poverty? It's selfish and immoral.
Ask a child who was born into poverty how that's working out for them.
Those who want to work and keep the fruits of their own labor are castigated as self-centered and greedy, while progressives are held out to be all-compassionate and kind for supporting government-run programs for every malady under the sun. Those who are self-sufficient should be applauded for not burdening society and for fulfilling their own wants and needs.
Enough of Obama's, Liberal rubbish.
What's my fair share? What's my slice of the pie? Well, the pie had to be baked, dummy. Did you roll the dough?
I agree. Those people worked and paid their way. And if it weren't for the dead weights siphoning money from them they'd probably have more saved up for those retirement years.
Interesting but those who have paid taxes that pay for SNAP are losers, lazy etc when they use a service they paid into.
Too many breed and don't consider the consequences that the children have to pay. Oh the mother gets a government check, oh number 5 is on the way. cool! they get a bigger government check. See how they could care less about the children. It's the parents fault. Why is it ok for them to bring children into poverty? It's selfish and immoral.
Ask a child who was born into poverty how that's working out for them.
Look petch i agree with you but thats the welfare of old. Today they don't let people have another child so they can keep collecting welfare. Its not being poor thats bad its society that says its bad. Further honestly how many of the 40+ million who collect SNAP are wemon birthing childreen for welfare. Can you give me a stat? I bet its a small minority.
Interesting but those who have paid taxes that pay for SNAP are losers, lazy etc when they use a service they paid into.
Really. Some people just can't keep their legs together and keep on breeding more welfare cases to feed so that workers are forced to support them.
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