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Old 11-09-2021, 02:31 PM
 
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...say thank you to the 39% who pay my freight?
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Old 11-09-2021, 05:48 PM
 
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the republican party has had us all refer to these people as "job-creators" and praise them daily....you want them to pay taxes as well? how absurd
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Old 11-09-2021, 05:56 PM
 
Location: Retired in VT; previously MD & NJ
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Interesting. Are we talking about the people at the bottom who pay no taxes? Or the 1%ters at the top who pay no taxes?
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Old 11-09-2021, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I assume the OP is referring to income taxes because virtually everybody pays taxes in some form or another, whether it’s sales tax, property tax, gas tax, etc. etc.
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Old 11-09-2021, 06:53 PM
 
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I assume the OP is referring to income taxes because virtually everybody pays taxes in some form or another, whether it’s sales tax, property tax, gas tax, etc. etc.
Well obviously. It is absolutely unfair that about 50% of the population pays no federal income tax.
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Old 11-09-2021, 06:54 PM
 
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Who do you think pays no taxes?
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Old 11-09-2021, 07:05 PM
 
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Well obviously. It is absolutely unfair that about 50% of the population pays no federal income tax.
What's even more insulting is that the 50% who pay no federal income tax sucks up the vast majority of federal welfare dollars.
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Old 11-09-2021, 07:07 PM
 
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Interesting. Are we talking about the people at the bottom who pay no taxes? Or the 1%ters at the top who pay no taxes?
?? The top 1% make 20% of income but pay 40% of federal income taxes.
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Old 11-09-2021, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Retired in VT; previously MD & NJ
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?? The top 1% make 20% of income but pay 40% of federal income taxes.
Except for the ones who pay zero. That has been all over the news in recent months.

https://www.propublica.org/article/t...oid-income-tax

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In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.
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Old 11-09-2021, 07:26 PM
 
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Except for the ones who pay zero. That has been all over the news in recent months.

https://www.propublica.org/article/t...oid-income-tax
Did he have taxable income? Someone said the 1% don't pay taxes. The facts are the top 1% pay 40% of all federal income tax. 50% pay no federal income tax.
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