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And stop acting you deserve something you didn't work for.
Please explain the logic behind "If you didn't work for it, you don't deserve it." After all, there are people who simply are unable to work, many of them veterans. The stats on what percentage of the population is either children, the elderly or the disabled were posted earlier in the thread. Is this a suggestion that being unable to work means that one's life has no value? This sounds more like the "death panel" mentality than anything President Obama might ever have envisioned.
Well guess what. I go to work and provide a service as well. Does that mean I'm already paying my fair share and therefore don't need to pay taxes anymore?
If you get **** for wages and you're basically living paycheck to paycheck than yes you are paying your fair share. As for not paying taxes anymore no, you still have to pay taxes, just like the people living paycheck to paycheck are paying taxes
Sooooo...you're worried and all upset about people that make only 11.1% of the income?
I'm not worried about them, other than the fact that they should also be paying 11.1% of the federal income tax revenue. That's their modified fair share. Earn very little; pay very little. Earn a LOT; pay a LOT. There will still be some people paying SIGNIFICANTLY MORE in federal income tax than others for the same access to federal government services and benefits, but that's just not enough for the egregiously greedy takers.
Birth rates aren't static, I've told you this ad nauseum.
The birth rate differential (those receiving public assistance compared to those not) has been static over the time the Census has reported them. I've posted them complete with links to the Census report data.
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Also, it's better to be growing than shrinking demographically.
Not when an increasingly larger percentage of the population requires public assistance to survive. How is that paid for? How is that sustainable?
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.
100% of the bottom 50% that pay no Federal income taxes spend 100% of their income back into the economy. Plus they still pay property tax, sales tax and social security tax.
How can they pay federal income tax if they wouldn't be able to afford to pay for them?
100% of the bottom 50% that pay no Federal income taxes spend 100% of their income back into the economy. Plus they still pay property tax, sales tax and social security tax.
How can they pay federal income tax if they wouldn't be able to afford to pay for them?
That's their problem. Why should others have to pay your share because of your stupidity.
Maybe we should educate them somehow.... So we don't have to continually pay them welfare.
Our country's public schools are a bust, they only educate 1/3 of all graduates to 12th grade basic proficiency level in reading and math, so what do you suggest?
Our country's public schools are a bust, they only educate 1/3 of all graduates to 12th grade basic proficiency level in reading and math, so what do you suggest?
LOL, Obama's solution, more of the same thing that didn't work in the first place.
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