lol he did the math wrong. He did delta divide by 17.17 instead of delta divide by 22.85%. Not shocked though coming from a writer.
TastesLikeChicken
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Brainonska511
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That's irrelevant. It's all about relative poverty.
On a global scale, poverty and extreme poverty are living under $2 and $1 a day, respectively. So yes, poor people in Africa are much worse off than in the US, but that doesn't mean we should tell our poor to "suck it up, they could be living in Africa."
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TastesLikeChicken
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lol. Nice non-answer.
Who pays the most in taxes, by FAR, in this country? It damn sure isn't the poor.
mugs
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In fact they often do not (pay federal income taxes). Those bold numbers are taxable income, and it's quite possible to have income but not taxable income. It's also possible to have taxable income but receive tax credits that offset all or more than all of the taxes you would have owed.
Of course they still pay social security taxes, sales taxes, property taxes (directly or indirectly). Those taxes are a significant burden for a poor person with little disposable income.
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If you had any accuracy you would have answered my last question. You owned yourself by avoiding it.
her209
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Fixed again.
And it was responded to, but in case you missed it, here it is again for you.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf
Yeah. Don't let facts get in the way of those evil rich!
What's even more funny is looking at the IRS data and seeing how it didn't change all the much. The article uses income (not adjusted for inflation) and compares with adjusted for inflation income and taxes.
It's full of shit and bad math.
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It was a question. It ended in a question mark. Allow me to help you out:
"Who pays the most in taxes, by FAR, in this country?"
You haven't actually responded to that question yet. You keep trying to dance around around it, but you have done nothing towards providing an answer.
Answer the question.
"Who pays the most in taxes, by FAR, in this country?"
TastesLikeChicken
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Thanks for essentially tapping out. I knew you couldn't provide an honest answer and would have to resort to stupidity instead.
Maybe a more correct assertion would be MOST poor do not pay any taxes. There is always an exception, and some people (likely single, without kids) pulling in a low income obviously pay a hundred bucks or so a year in taxes. I can say with certainty, however, many people who aren't considered "poor" by our standards get back far more than they paid in, without any funny math.
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Sales tax????
FICA is part of your tax filing, which is what I am talking about. Take a married couple, with about $30k or so income, with a child. After standard deductions, child tax credit, and EIC you will see someone who paid about $4700 in federal taxes getting back around $6000. And that doesn't even include child care credit for those who use daycare. Fill it all out on the forms, and you will see what I mean.
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