Posted on 06/18/2024 5:29:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
When you pay taxes, remember that the bottom 20% of income earners do almost no work, do not pay taxes, and receive government aid. The next lowest 20% pay minimal taxes but also receive government support.
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Democrats are happy with the arrangement b/c those who pay no taxes is their solid voting base.
Now we have 10 million more "refugees" invaders, that Biden is about to grant amnesty to - who will need government services in perpetuity...
So Biden’s plan is import more?
And I’ll bet that “bottom 20%” votes democrat at a higher percentage than just about any other voter demographic.
I have no problem with safety nets as well as supporting the disabled and retired, but any system where you subsidize lack of socio-economic participation in the economy is double burdened. The economic ecology is supporting them, and they aren’t contributing back to it.
nearly half of America pays no income tax!???????????
well, the proponents of a federal income tax promised us that “the average working man will never pay a dime in income tax”
so it appears that they’re halfway to honoring their commitment?
what a f***ing ripoff!!!
bleed the workers to rake in campaign and vote-buying funds for the clique that is in power
corrupt as all HELL!
we need to get rid of the d*** income tax and return to the (successful) original US Constitution which had NO federal income tax (and the country managed to get by OKAY for its first 140 years without a federal income tax)
The low income live in the big house, and are in control of the rest. If you want to know who controls you, criticize them.
In a modern economy built on consumer spending, the bottom 20% isn’t there to be productive. They exist so the government can subsidize their defects and disorders … to keep the other 80% gainfully employed.
I had no idea it was this bad.
So Biden’s plan is import more?
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No Biden’s actual plan is to import people who work on the cheap, and then to complain when large amounts of economically oppressed undocumented human beings aren’t being properly taxed, and if they are to be taxed, they deserve the right to vote. *wink nudge*
The potential backfire for democrats is, the more work and family oriented they are, the less likely they are to act and votelike traditional “bottom 20%” groups
BTTT
Neither did I.
Dubya’s compassionate conservatism at work. The problem with taking people off the tax rolls is they have no skin in the game. States with no income taxes tend to be more fiscally conservative because everyone, including renters, pays property taxes, even if indirectly. Taxes go up - everyone should pay more.
Which is neither.
They also live low or rent free. Get food stamps. Utility allowances. And they make whatever money they can, under the table. They avoid legit 9-5 jobs cause their rent will go up proportionally.
I remember back in 1964 with Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty about how news men and politicians went to a Hillbilly home in Appalachia and met a man with no job sitting on his porch.
They told him how LBJ’s plans would change all that.
15 or 20 years later, they revisit the man. Same old house, sitting on his porch and had never had a job. But he had been drawing a government check for the last 15-20 years.
They do pay sales tax, gas tax, property tax, tolls, and fees like everyone else. They just don’t see them as well as income taxes. There’s no paycheck that makes income and payroll taxes painfully obvious.
Solution? Perhaps a national sales tax and complete elimination of income tax?
Anyone who thinks we aren’t already living under socialism, is either ignorant or delusional.
Trump has stated just that for his third term. Exactly.
He has said he'd get rid of payroll taxes (when running for 2nd term), in a republican meeting stated he'd like to get rid of income tax, and most recently touted no taxes on tips.
The dirty little secret is that none of our so-called taxes go to pay for any federal program (see Grace Commission report). The IRS collects 1040 fiat we fork over as payment on the fiat debt-based dollars printed with usury by the central banksters. So-called "taxes" creates an environment that helps us voluntarily pay half our incomes to fixing roads, having wars, housing illegals, and so on, when it does nothing of the sort.
We’re not living under socialism.
What we are living under is slavery. There is more slavery today than ever in human history.
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