So how will you get some revenues out of ‘em? Send ‘em to the rendering plants and pet food shelves for government employees to buy, perhaps?
Oh...forgot. Government employees, bigger revenues in, littler taxes out.
BTTT
It worked. I’m incensed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We do not pay any income taxes, but when we purchas anything we pay taxes on that. Our income is va & ss disabality, both are non taxable.
Didn't happen to me thankfully, but it's been an incredible year ~ never thought my deductible medical costs would be as high as they are! I'd normally done my taxes late in the previous year then make a calculated decision about paying any excess early or late depending on the adantage.
This year I couldn't even read the IRS booklets until late February and there was all sorts of new stuff that I still haven't sorted out in my mind. Following the advice of other blind folks I've asked IRS some specific questions ~ in the meantime going ahead and filing.
So, who are the blind? Well, the deal is that your best vision in your best eye can't be better than 20/200 even corrected ~ and I was there for most of a year. Then, they cut off the medications and my best actually got down to 20/15 ~ and even my worst, under my tightest control, and moving my eye back and forth, I can pass a driving test ~ no doubt you all want me on the road eh!
Bwahahahahaha
The Internet lets me blow the words up to where it's better than any lens I can buy ~ and is my prosthetic letting me into the real world beyond the darkened living room.
Looking over stories on the net it looks like there are hundreds of thousands of folks with decent incomes who turn up blind ~ permanently ~ every year ~ and even they don't stop paying taxes ~ this nation taxes blind folks.
The deal seems to be to encourage those with impaired vision to get hired help.
Most interesting ~ not the policy I thought it was, but what else could it be?
I'm pretty sure Hannity is targeting blind people in his rants about people not paying income tax.
He's building up a very large supply of negative kharma. Wouldn't get too close to him just in case he gets some early blowback.
In reality, payroll taxes are exactly the same thing as income taxes; money taken from the the individual that disappears into a black hole, never to be seen again. But to admit this obvious fact, in defense of those paying no income taxes, is to admit that a good portion of their world view is fantasy or fraud.
It’s ok, I paid enough for 3 or so households this year...
I don’t buy this argument that people are being simply demonized because “they don’t pay any income taxes”.
So they pay Social Security taxes and a few other things. So do I. And so do many, many other people.
But I pay a boatload of INCOME tax beyond SS and other such things, while they do not. How does that make it anything other than redistribution?
(Very high-income households can fall into the non-payer group if they get their income from tax-exempt bonds or overseas sources for which they get foreign tax credits)
I can’t believe they mention the foreign tax credits as if it’s a loophole! For the record, I don’t get any of my income that way. However, the US is one of the few countries that taxes worldwide income. If a citizen from another country works in the US, that person only pays US taxes. If an American citizen works overseas, they get taxed by the IRS anyway, net of the taxes they paid overseas (there might be a certain amount shielded from income as well). If they change that “loophole”, and Americans can’t get away from the taxman even if they leave the country, these citizens will have to make a decision as to whether the US citizenship is even worth it. The IRS would then get nothing.
Sounds to me like the W4s were properly filed.
A big problem. These people are not overtaxed, although they may think so.
Democrats/Socialists will always be able to go to these voters and say: “Republican’s plan will make you pay more” when talking about proposed budget cuts like Medicare. This group will always (generally) see the wisdom of ‘tax increases on the rich’.
And they are still 'entitled' to Medicare and Social Security.
And, by the way, my disagreement was not with you personally, since I do think it is fair to keep in mind that people who don’t pay any Federal Income Tax do pay sales tax and other such taxes.
The problem is, income tax is obviously the major chunk of money going to the federal government. Everyone needs to pay, because as many people have pointed out, when people are free of that burden of having to pay anything, the exercise of voting for people who will increase taxes on the “other” people to pay for benefits “they” get takes on a completely different dynamic, even IF those people DO pay some kind of taxes.
So 45% have no skin in the game.
I have seen and heard these arguments before. They’re ludicrous.
Saying, “Hey — the 47% non-taxpaying statistic is both mean-spirited and misleading. Those people pay sales tax.”
But we were talking about income tax.
Their argument is a bit like saying, “Most people don’t buy newspapers any more; but they do use toilet paper.”
Make EVERYONE pay some income tax.
We should have a basement level of income tax if we have an income tax at all. 5% so they can do their patriotic duty.
Even better, a "sales tax" AND no income tax.
Everyone must pay if anyone does.
Otherwise we will eventually have chaos and war.
That number would be reduced considerably by passing the Fair Tax Act(HR25/S13). The Fair Tax will replace all federal income taxes with a national sales tax and abolish the IRS!
Modify the AMT so that everyone has to pay at least the minimum tax rate.