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Originally Posted by theking
The chart is meaningless other than to show that there are more and more millionaires/billionaries and that over all they pay the bulk of the taxes but the percentage rate they pay is far from overwhelming.
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Far from overwhelming???????? You/people only say that because you look at the remainder of the dollars they have and say....... oh goodness, they have enough left over, so what's the big deal?
Look at it as the value of an individual dollar, rather than as a whole collection of money. How would you like to pay 35-40% tax on the dollars you earn? If you are in the 15K bracket, there is no tax, the next bracket is like 10%. No one in those brackets pays even close to what the high earners do.
It pisses me off when people take the argument that wealthy people should be happy to pay more as they have more available to them to work with. Fuck that! All it is, is the wealthy paying for the usage by others. That's called welfare. That's called charity. Figure out something fair, but at this point it's just plain old theft, that's it, disguised as law.
If you and I earn a dollar, to be fair, we both should share the same amount for the common good. What makes the idea that I can earn 100,000 times more than you mean that my dollars require me to contribute more than you on a per dollar basis anything remotely even close to fair or making sense?
Politics, voting, demographics... it's all a scam