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Originally Posted by HandballJim
what is the sense of voting if you can't complain about something, also making 31k means your poor and should not be paying more taxes.
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First I didn't say you can't complain but you can't complain about how YOUR taxes are spent if you aren't paying any taxes.
Second the $31k was an EXAMPLE. That's poor? then most of America is poor because $31K is $15 an hour. And half of America doesn't make that.
Ok another example married couple 2 kids under 17 with $52,000 a year income. That's the median income in the US.
standard deduction $11,400
dependants( 4 X $3650 )$14,600
Child tax credit ( 2 X $1000 )$2000
earned income credit $0
total dedecutions and credits= $28,000
Income $52,000 - Dedecutons $31,000 = $21,000 in taxable income.
Income tax on $21,000 = $2319.
% of income paid in income tax 2319/52000= 4.5%
Seriously how can someone who is paying less than 5% of their income in income taxes complain about paying too much? How much is fair?
Even a single guy with no dependants making $80K a year pays at most 17.6% of his income in income tax. And that's only if he's too stupid to not be able to find any deductions.
You know Bill Gates, Warrrent Buffet sure they can bitch. They pay more in 1 year than this entire board will pay combined over 50 years. Guess what they aren't bitching. Hmmmmm.
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I also don't think people who work hard and have 3 jobs or have a degree and earn more money should be penalized by being taxed more. I think success should be rewarded.
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If you have to work 3 jobs to survive you're doing something WRONG.
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Instead you have generations of families living in housing projects popping out kids living off the welfare system that I contribute to with my taxes. Why should they better themselves...so they can get taxed more.
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IF your taxes are going towards welfares it's maybe a few pennies of each dollar at most. We'd save more money by having the Pentagon stop buying $500 hammers and $800 coffee pots, then turning around and selling them at auction for 25 cents.
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This is by far the best country to live in if your poor...
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I thought it would be somewhere in socialist Europe
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Originally Posted by Rangermoore
Which half are you? Besides the moron demotard half...  |
Never been a democrat. I have been a republican though. Nice assumption retard.