Who pays the taxes?

CFC ^ | April ** 2001 ** | L. Burkett (not named on article)

[Jeff Smith]

This is the information from taxfoundation.org. From 1999 figures.....

People with incomes over $293,415 pay 36% of the taxes, $317 billion

People with incomes $120,846 to $293,415 pay 19% of the taxes, $169 billion

People with incomes $87,682 to $120,846 pay 11% of the taxes, $97 billion.

People with incomes $26,415 to $87,682 pay 30% of the taxes, $259 billion

People with incomes below $26,415 pay 4% of the taxes, $35 billion

Gee, I was wrong. I knew the numbers did not add up before. You guys are correct. The super rich and the entire middle class account for most of our government's revenues.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"So, according to the official records of the IRS, the wealthiest taxpayers (the top 10 percent) are paying almost two-thirds of the taxes, leaving the remaining 90 percent of America’s taxpayers to pay the remaining one-third of the taxes. So, who is in fact being unfairly taxed? "

Tax bump

[Darth Sidious]

Taxes are necessary for the support of the government.

Bullcrap! This nation survived and THRIVED for 130 years without an income tax. It didn't need one then... why should it need one now?

And the Bible makes it perfectly clear that we must pay the taxes that we owe.

Double bullcrap!

Jesus was reminding the Pharisees that if they had rendered unto God first, they would have NEVER had to render unto Caesar, at all. They were putting their faith in man and his system, instead of entirely upon God.

It's arguments like this, that "Christians MUST obey their governments no matter what" that perpetuate the abuses of this system to begin with.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

reminding the Pharisees

Who was He talking to here?

[Darth Sidious]

Look, I'm honked off enough as it is, after a day of dealing with penny-ante bureacrats. It's the Pharisees, or the Saducees, or the Macabees or the Macdoolittles or... ahhhh read the book!! :-)