1 posted on
06/25/2009 10:43:11 AM PDT by
sdw2009
To: sdw2009
Tax avoidance will (and should) become rampant very soon.
2 posted on
06/25/2009 10:45:51 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: sdw2009
And Obama wants to cut their taxes....as if there is any left to cut.
3 posted on
06/25/2009 10:46:07 AM PDT by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: sdw2009
According to IRS data, the bottom 50% of wage earners paid a total of 2.99% of all taxes – almost none...Of all federal income tax.
Now throw in Social Security and Medicare taxes. Federal gas taxes. Phone taxes. Property taxes. State income and sales taxes. The percentage will change dramatically.
Part of the problem with the tax debate is defining the taxes being paid.
4 posted on
06/25/2009 10:47:43 AM PDT by
dirtboy
To: sdw2009
Rush has been telling us this for YEARS. (Though it still bears repeating!)
5 posted on
06/25/2009 10:47:54 AM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: sdw2009
Very NICE.
Now it would be interesting to know what percentage of the Federal Budget goes to provide services to the bottom 50% of wage earners.
7 posted on
06/25/2009 10:50:38 AM PDT by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: sdw2009; All
8 posted on
06/25/2009 10:51:34 AM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: sdw2009
I think it’s time for a “No representation without taxation” revolt...
10 posted on
06/25/2009 10:52:44 AM PDT by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: sdw2009
This omits FICA taxes I am sure.
It is only true for the Federal Income Tax
11 posted on
06/25/2009 10:54:20 AM PDT by
devere
To: sdw2009
No representation without taxation. Strip the vote from welfare leeches.
14 posted on
06/25/2009 11:02:05 AM PDT by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: sdw2009
Reagan’s advisers tried to tell him that the EITC would have terrible long-term consequences
To: sdw2009
That fact means nothing unless we know how much do the bottom 50% EARN?
If it is way more than 3% then it is outrageous, but if it is around 2-3%, then it is proportionally correct.
19 posted on
06/25/2009 11:31:54 AM PDT by
sagar
To: sdw2009
I’m shocked, shocked I tells ya!
If they dropped it to 48% of the population, they probably would find that they paid 0% of the total tax.
25 posted on
06/25/2009 12:50:29 PM PDT by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
To: sdw2009
Heck, a bunch of them get rebates but pay zero tax. That’s ‘progressive’ in action.
26 posted on
06/25/2009 12:51:21 PM PDT by
polymuser
("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
To: sdw2009
, the bottom 50% of wage earners paid a total of 2.99% of all taxes – almost none...
Maybe if you're only looking at income taxes. I doubt I'm in the top 50 percent, and I have paid plenty of taxes.
28 posted on
06/25/2009 12:57:53 PM PDT by
mysterio
To: sdw2009
What should make your blood boil is that it took you so long to find out. It's been true since at least Clinton's tenure. Remember the largest tax increase of all time? That was a good start, and chump change compared to what Hussein has planned.
took me about 30 seconds to find a useful site...
Americans are idiots
If they buy the fiction that "only the rich" will be raped.
30 posted on
06/25/2009 6:20:51 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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