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It should be everyone's role in life. Unfortunately, only half of us are paying into the system. The rest just take.
You mean the half who are:
The working poor
Seniors on Social Security who've spent a lifetime working and contributing
The disabled who can't work
The 491,000 Americans who made more than $100,000 and paid no income tax last year
Active Duty Military
Those takers?
I'll give you this: One of those groups on that list are definitely takers.
Because the tax laws need to be changed..Too many loopholes for the rich.why do they get loopholes and poor people dont.. Let them pay up and shut up or just leave..PS the election is over
Once again, Reagan gets credit for doing more for the impoverished in this country than modern day Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians would ever stand for.
Reagan cut $1 billion from the school lunch program. His Secretary of Agriculture tried to classify
ketchup and pickle relish as a vegetable to save money on the school lunch program
Even us libertarians would donate real food to schools and donate money to the homeless.
Reagan cut the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development by three-quarters, from $32 billion in 1981 to $7.5 billion by 1988. Under Reagan, the number of people living beneath the federal poverty line rose from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32.5 million in 1988.
George Bush Jr doesn't even have THAT record...
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The working poor
Seniors on Social Security who've spent a lifetime working and contributing
The disabled who can't work
The 491,000 Americans who made more than $100,000 and paid no income tax last year
Active Duty Military
Those takers?
I'll give you this: One of those groups on that list are definitely takers.
All the seniors I know pay taxes. ditto for the disabled on social security (I have an aunt who has been on disability since she was in her 20's). I'll have to ask my ss if he paid taxes while in the military. I believe he did. However, I don't beleive anywhere near half of all working americans are in the military so there must be a lot more out there....with all of the baby boomers retired, we'd have 1/3 people on social security.
And there aren't enough write offs for someone to earn $100,000K in income and not pay taxes. You'd be talking investments there which are handled differently for good reason. For example, you can have a bad year when your stocks lose $100,000K followed by a good year where they gain $100,000K which means you really made nothing for two years. How much tax do you think they should pay on the nothing they made in stocks for those two years? Remember stock losses can only be written off against gains. They can't deduct that from income for the year they lost.
In case you haven't noticed, we had a few bad years in the stock market lately. Yes, it's starting to move back up but your mistake is thinking people are making money. They're not. They're gaining back some of their previous losses. Do you really think that should be taxed?
Personally, I think if someone earned nothing across two years, they shouldn't have to pay taxes at all.
Reagan cut $1 billion from the school lunch program. His Secretary of Agriculture tired to classify
ketchup and pickle relish as a vegetable to save money on the school lunch program
Even us libertarians would donate real food to schools and donate money to the homeless.
Reagan cut the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development by three-quarters, from $32 billion in 1981 to $7.5 billion by 1988. Under Reagan, the number of people living beneath the federal poverty line rose from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32.5 million in 1988.
George Bush Jr doesn't even have THAT record...
I got some of your mail on twitter...this is for you ==> Lori Buvinghausen @coallb
To all of you conservatives who voted for Gary Johnson or who didn't vote, thanks for sticking us with Obamacare for the rest of our lives.
You guys keep bickering over how much the rich, starting at $200K per year need to pay.
No matter what percentage comes up the left says it's not enough.
So approach this the other way..."How much can the rich, those making $200K a year, keep?"
That's really what you are aiming for because if they still have lots of money then they didn't pay enough.
The "rich" are not earning millions. That is the old definition. There's not enough of them anymore so you had to lower your standards and say those earning $200K per year are rich.
Ya know..they don't look "rich" to me. They don't qualify for any programs. That means they foot 100% of the bill to send their kids to college.
They don't have yachts or private planes or homes all over the world. But you seem to think they owe just as much as the likes of the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
But go ahead..tell those in the 28% income bracket they are just as greedy as those in the 35% bracket and DEMAND they pay more.
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I got some of your mail on twitter...this is for you ==> Lori Buvinghausen @coallb
To all of you conservatives who voted for Gary Johnson or who didn't vote, thanks for sticking us with Obamacare for the rest of our lives.
Contraire - Libertarians didn't steal votes away from Romney. If anything we took some away
from Obama.
Disgruntled Ron Paul GOP'ers did. Paul didn't even endorse Johnson
Paul GOP'ers did write-in's or didn't vote in battle ground states like OH, VA, and FL.
We (Libertarians) only got 1.1M nation wide and I've said on other posts:
Libertarians aren't going to be the kicking post for Romney's loss. We are our own party
The GOP loss is their own doing
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to schools and donate money to the homeless.
