When are the bottom 50% going to start paying their fair share? (generation, independent)
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Let's look at the reality of ALL taxes, then, local, state, and federal (including payroll taxes), combined. Total effective tax rates, by income group:
(Data Sources, two liberal think tanks: Tax Policy Center and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
I suggest you take that up with the individual states who administer the educational programs and allot the funds and curriculum to the various school districts. It's not "our country", it's the individual state.
I think you'll find that rich white enclaves have much better education opportunities than poor distressed minority districts.
Not necessarily rich, but they do spend significantlyless money and get MUCH better results.
Quote:
"Camden High School, with an enrollment of 1,200 students, has less than a 40 percent graduation rate, and the former district chief of security Thomas Hewes-Eddinger has called it a “mini-jail.” Yet the district spends $23,356 per student, more than twice the national average.
Nearly 2,200 miles away lies the opposite example: the lowest-cost school district . Alpine school district is located in American Fork, Utah, a town of 27,000 people at the foot of Mount Timpanogos. The racial makeup is 95 percent white, 0.16 percent black and 0.65 percent Asian. The town’s median household income is $52,000; 4 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. The district spends a mere $5,658 per student, nearly half the national average, and has a 78 percent graduation rate.
Although they represent the extremes, these very different districts illustrate a troubling pattern that emerges in the school-spending data: The 10 most expensive schools have some of the lowest graduations rates, and the 10 schools that spend the least per student have some of the highest."
How have you escaped the fact that when considering ALL local, state, and federal taxes, income, corporate, estate, excise, payroll, property, sales, etc., taxes are included?
How have you escaped the fact that when considering ALL local, state, and federal taxes, income, corporate, estate, excise, payroll, property, sales, etc., taxes are included?
You're choosing to be WILLFULLY ignorant.
WTF are you talking about?
NO, corporate, estate, excise, payroll, property, sales, capital gains and inheritance taxes are NOT all the same and they certainly are NOT the same as INCOME taxes whether you are talking local, state or federal.
No, don't you see? When the rich do it, its called "work" and "investment" and "capitalism."
When the poor do its called "cheating" and "idiotic" and "avoiding taxes."
See the difference?
If you know someone is on disability and shouldn't be, video them and report them.
If you know someone is working under the table encourage the people who hired them to send a 1099 at the end of the year.
It's time to turn these freeloaders in. Every time you let them get away with cheating they'll thank you by demanding that you pay more taxes to make up for what they didn't pay.
If you know someone is on disability and shouldn't be, video them and report them.
If you know someone is working under the table encourage the people who hired them to send a 1099 at the end of the year.
It's time to turn these freeloaders in. Every time you let them get away with cheating they'll thank you by demanding that you pay more taxes to make up for what they didn't pay.
LOL, such a statist you are-I thought Republicans were against Government intrusion?
Why don't you start by reporting your local bartender, your kids' babysitter and all your servers at the restaurants you eat out at?
I'm sure you'll be even more well liked haha.
You seem like the type that calls the Cops on kids selling lemonade because they don't have the proper permit from the Government. Pathetic.
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