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Originally Posted by 12clicks
I wish I paid 17%. isn't that neat!
we can all wish but the fact remains that the CBO says when adding all taxes together, the effective rate that the top 1% pays is much higher than the middle class pays, regardless of the lies obama trots out.
but look how he's succeeded in making you think otherwise.
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The difference is that he was referring to Capital Gains tax (which oddly enough wasn't included in that CBO estimate) vs. Individual Income Tax rates... and I am quite certain that when he was referring to middle class he was referring to people like me who earn between $84k and $250k.
The last time I paid anywhere near 3% was when I was working as a Restaurant Manager in the 90s and had kids that I could claim EIC for. I do claim one... I have a 5 year old... but it certainly doesn't reduce my liability much...
I don't own property because I am still improving my credit score from going through 2 divorces and being broke for years... so no mortgage interest deduction. I don't have alot of expenses that I can write off because my office is in my bedroom and I don't really have an area in my house that I can dedicate to an office. I don't really drive anywhere for business meetings... so not much there either and my hosting costs are nominal.
I am working on a new project that will probably change all of that... but this is my current reality.
If it were taxes alone... I might be able to support a Republican... but I have learned over the years that they talk out of the side of their necks... meaning that they say what you want to hear but do something entirely different. They are the primary driver of our current debt and the facts prove that no matter what they may say... and a perfect example of the "side of their neck" comment.
I don't support everything that Democrats want and I certainly don't see myself as a Progressive... in fact I think Progressives are the opposite crazy of Tea Party crazy. Two sides of the same coin. However, Obama hasn't done anything that he didn't say he would do from the beginning of his campaign that I care about.
Republicans don't do anything... nothing... zero... to help small business owners like me. They only help out huge corporations that they call "small businesses". They FUCK small business owners like me right in the buttcrack.