JeffreyLebowski
Lifer
- Aug 23, 2000
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What you say is in fact, a lie.
They may not pay a federal INCOME tax, but they do pay taxes. Like I posted in this thread, I made basically no money and paid ~10% of my AGI to federal payroll taxes, plus I have to pay 9.5% state sales tax on stuff I buy.
Sure feels awesome paying like 20% of my AGI away in taxes. Oh wait, I forgot, I don't pay any because I'm poor.
No he is correct. Federal INCOME tax. SS, Medicare, Medicaid, are not income tax. They are taxes for those programs solely.
I take it you don't even do your own taxes. When filling tax returns, there are no options to reduce your SS, Med taxes. It's all based on your Federal Income tax (or state if you have state income tax).
It's people like you and the other sheep of the Democrat party that like to over simplify things.
http://libertyworks.com/
When the Bush tax cuts were enacted, income taxes had been steadily declining based on the Clinton tax rates. When the Boosh tax cuts where inacted, Income tax revenue INCREASED. Infact, thee 2007 tax year was the largest income tax intake in history. Taxes aren't the problem. SPENDING is. Congress needs to stop spending OUR money.
Anyone that thinks raising taxes on the "rich" is the answer has fallen for the class warfare scam that the Democrats are piling on. It's nothing more than another way for them to garner votes, tax money away from the successful and productive, and give just enough to the lowest earners, to make them feel better, but not actually impact their lives to the point of making them productive.
