Top 10% earners paid 71% of all income tax (wage, solution, companies)

[Sunny-Days-in-Florida]

Originally Posted by tonyandclaire89

Don't you luv it when the liberal leeches constantly start screaming that the top earners are not paying their fair share...

how-your-income-stacks-up: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance


United States is a close second to the highest corporate tax rate in the world

FOXNews.com - Europeans, China Outpace U.S. on Corporate Tax Reductions

They want the successful people like these people to feed, house and take care of them is why they want more.

We should DEMAND that all American citizens over the age of 18 pay their FAIR SHARE of taxes that keep this country running and NOT steal from these people.

Success should be rewarded not stolen from them.

The bums who suck all of us who pay taxes dry need to be forced to pay into or WORK for their share of taxes they do not pay.

OP- Most liberals have no clue to facts like these. They just believe whatever someone else tells them.

It is totally unfair for these people and others to carry the rest of the bums who pay no taxes at all.

Time for change, time to force people to earn their own keep and stop sponging off of good hard working successful people.

[Gary Siete]

Yes, the US has a progressive tax system. Below is the average federal tax rate for each income level.

The Tax Foundation - Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data

Tax Rate Income
22.45% > $410,096
20.53% > $160,041
18.79% > $113,018
15.98% > $66,532
14.03% > $32,879
2.99% < $32,879

[Reelist in Atlanta]

Originally Posted by tonyandclaire89

Top 10% earners paid 71% of all income tax

Don't you luv it when the liberal leeches constantly start screaming that the top earners are not paying their fair share...

Yep and the bottom 40% pay no income tax at all. Yet everyone's vote counts the same. It's kind of scary, isn't it?

I can't wait until the non-payers reach 51%. What a wonderful world it will be.


"The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away
from those who are willing to work and give to those who
would not."
- Thomas Jeffereson

[sanrene]

For some of the leeches, even this disproportional tax burden is not enough. They would like that 10% to pay even more.

[Azalea City Man]

Originally Posted by Gary Siete

Yes, the US has a progressive tax system. Below is the average federal tax rate for each income level.

The Tax Foundation - Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data

Tax Rate Income
22.45% > $410,096
20.53% > $160,041
18.79% > $113,018
15.98% > $66,532
14.03% > $32,879
2.99% < $32,879

Thanks for posting the actual numbers.

I pay 14%. Mr. Earns Alot pays 22.5%.

I earn 50k and go home with 43k. Mr. Earns Alot earns 1 Million and walks home with 780k.

I think we will both survive lol. Paying 8% less doesn't exactly make me a leach. 780k can be stretched much further than 43k when it comes to groceries.

[Gary Siete]

Using the tax foundation data (see below) I have calculated the tax impact if everyone paid the same tax rate. Taxes for most Americans would double. Even the most rabid Republican wouldn't try and ram that through.



http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

[Azalea City Man]

Originally Posted by Gary Siete

Using the tax foundation data (see below) I have calculated the tax impact if everyone paid the same tax rate. Taxes for most Americans would double. Even the most rabid Republican wouldn't try and ram that through.



The Tax Foundation - Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data

It would be cool to see how America would react to that platform though if used by a politician running for president. I would love to see how we would respond just for curiosity's sake.

[CAVA1990]

Well considering corporate income tax just gets passed through to the consumer in higher prices, I think we're all paying that piece of it.

[Zimbochick]

I just love the grand sweeping generalizations that liberals are all earning minimum wage, and making minimal tax and SS contributions. I would hazard a guess that minimum wage earners in middle America living in their double-wides are not big Obama supporters.

[CAVA1990]

it boggles the mind how the wealthy have conned the folks at the bottom to vote for their agenda with the phony belief that "oh, I'll be rich someday so I better side with those guys".