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Originally Posted by Robbie
But none of the people in that little cartoon actually pay the tax rate they are shown with.
That's the part of this whole class warfare argument that is never brought up.
Back when I was making $50,000 a year I NEVER actually paid the assigned tax rate I was supposed to pay. I took every deduction I could and squeezed out every last write off I could.
What's needed is a chart that shows what people REALLY pay. All those people in lower incomes do NOT actually pay their tax rate either.
This whole argument is such a joke.
Fact is people who actually make real money pay almost all the taxes in this country. Yet they don't get any more "services" from the govt. than anybody else. They just pay more.
I pay more money in taxes...more than most of you. And I can flat out tell you that I don't get anything more than any of you do (talking infrastructure...because I have NEVER gotten any kind of "assistance" from the govt. EVER)
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Those lucky poor people and their low taxes.
Careful, you'll wear out that back-patting arm.
Did you go to public school? Did your employees? Does your business utilize the government-created internet? Do you have a corporation or LLC that shields you from personal liability? Have you ever litigated in a taxpayer-funded court of law? Is your money in a bank protected by the FDIC?
I don't know what your business is. I don't care. You didn't become a success without some help along the way. Nobody does. We are all a part of a society. Get over yourself.
Anytime you want to give all your money away, you too, can live the good life that poor people now enjoy with their low taxes.
Being poor sucks. You won't find a poor person that wouldn't rather have money - even if it meant higher taxes.
We've got 311,592,000 people in America. Not all of them can be rich. If you're hanging on to that fantasy, it's long past time to give it up.
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Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe. The mobility gap has been widely discussed in academic circles, but a sour season of mass unemployment and street protests has moved the discussion toward center stage.
Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Republican candidate for president, warned this fall that movement ?up into the middle income is actually greater, the mobility in Europe, than it is in America.? National Review, a conservative thought leader, wrote that ?most Western European and English-speaking nations have higher rates of mobility.? Even Representative Paul D. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who argues that overall mobility remains high, recently wrote that ?mobility from the very bottom up? is ?where the United States lags behind.?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us...s.html?_r=1&hp
So it's pretty gross to hear rich people complain about taxes. Who should pay the bulk of the taxes? The poor who are struggling to get out of poverty?
