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Ha. Tell me about it. I did my taxes a few weeks ago...I have no mortgage, no kids, basically nothing but the standard deduction...I looked at my with holding...no exemptions. I get nothing back, and still pay another $200.
It is a problem when folks on welfare, food stamps file taxes and get money back!
You actually do pay tax, but not federal income tax. As a percentage of income low income tax payers pay the most tax. Why do you hate the EITC? It is primarily designed for low income households and is supported by both R/D and has strong economic support. Eliminating it would simply effectively raise taxes substantially on the lowest earning Americans. This makes no sense, economically or politically. Most Americans are paying federal income tax, but as more people start collecting S.S. the number of people paying will decrease. Well, depending on how 401K withdrawals end up getting taxed.
You're still robbing working taxpayers to redistribute the goodies to others. How could anyone argue that it is fair to do so?
Payroll taxes should be left out of the discussion since we all have the same chance to draw those benefits when we retire. They may be paying a higher percentage of their working income, but it's fair to point out that they are also drawing a higher percentage of their working income than working people when they retire and benefit from their social Security checks.
Ha. Tell me about it. I did my taxes a few weeks ago...I have no mortgage, no kids, basically nothing but the standard deduction...I looked at my with holding...no exemptions. I get nothing back, and still pay another $200.
It is a problem when folks on welfare, food stamps file taxes and get money back!
Obamacare is going to make it worse for people like you (and me). We'll be paying for everyone else's benefits with very little to show for ourselves.
That 7 billion is the point. Thats money i would rather seen cut than some of the cuts happening because of the sequester. Not that i am against those cuts either. My whole point to this thread was pointing out just 1 wasteful goverment spending program that needs to go. As you said only 3500 per family. Ok lets look at that in a different way. That is $67 a week for those families to make up by finding some sort of job or doing without. I am sorry if i sound heartless but if this goverment can say hard working americans will lose their jobs because the only cuts they can think of are ones to family supporters just because it will make republicans look bad then i can point out just 1 able body group that gets more than there share as dems like to say, that should sacrifice for the better good of the country.
Really you are against the federal government spending 7billion in a year out of a federal budget that is over 3.5trillion to temporarily help women and children?
Here is a thought exercise if the federal government spent nothing on TANF, what would the federal budget be?
Answer 3.493 trillion. The budget doesn't change much. TANF is absolutely irrelevant to the federal budget
It is a teeny tiny program.
Are you serious? TANF mostly helps children. You are sick in the head.
Cutting TANF has a minuscule impact on the budget, but would devastate the lives if a lot of families
Let's say that failed government immigration policy (porous borders, illegal immigration, lack of enforcement, etc), costs a burger flipper x dollars in the form of undercut wages and y dollars in the form of inflated rents.
Do you believe government owes said burger flipper NOTHING?
Yes, the government owes burger flipper nothing. Burger flipper and all his peers elected the government that instituted said failed policy. Apparently, that's what burger flipper and all his peers wanted.
Low-income earners general have little or no federal income tax liability. Those who are not required to file a 1040 do not do so unless they expect to get a refund of any or all federal income tax they paid that year and/or will receive additional money FROM the government in the form of REFUNDABLE tax credits.
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