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1 posted on 04/18/2016 7:43:19 AM PDT by Java4Jay
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More accurately, no beans in the burrito, and no boom boom in the vroom vroom.


2 posted on 04/18/2016 7:45:04 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Pay taxes on anything above $8000


3 posted on 04/18/2016 7:45:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Pretty close to 47%


4 posted on 04/18/2016 7:46:26 AM PDT by going hot
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The ‘RATS like to say that paying taxes is your patriotic duty. We’ve got 45% of the country who are unpatriotic. No wonder the country is so screwed up.


5 posted on 04/18/2016 7:46:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The "college" snowflakes need to check their American privilege. Everything isn't a right.)
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“No skin in the game “

No pay, no play, no vote for them.

Should be a creed to repeat somewhere there.


6 posted on 04/18/2016 7:47:43 AM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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Proof as to why income taxes are bs.

Sales taxes funded the country up until the 20th Century. It’s even “fair” because the more you consume the more you pay.


7 posted on 04/18/2016 7:49:52 AM PDT by Shadow44
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And we don’t have to guess who. It’s very evident. All I know is this from speaking to tons of people over several years time. More people are out of work now than at any other time in my life that I can recall. The middle class is being taxed to death. Taxes HAVE risen through deceptive tactics like Obamacare penalties and deductions that are being phased out. More people have gone through their savings than at any other time in history other than the Great Depression. All since the Muslim Manchuran Canddate ascended the throne. And of ourselves he laughs it off. Hell he can. He’s being paid by special interest groups, Soros, and probably pilfered from the taxpayer cookie jar. $6B did come up missing.


8 posted on 04/18/2016 7:51:36 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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and guess who pays for governmental services of which the 45% partake?? Of course, you and me!

There should be a minimum tax, if only $1.

or maybe no tax, no vote.


9 posted on 04/18/2016 7:51:59 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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And we don’t have to guess who. It’s very evident. All I know is this from speaking to tons of people over several years time. More people are out of work now than at any other time in my life that I can recall. The middle class is being taxed to death. Taxes HAVE risen through deceptive tactics like Obamacare penalties and deductions that are being phased out. More people have gone through their savings than at any other time in history other than the Great Depression. All since the Muslim Manchuran Canddate ascended the throne. And of of course he laughs it off. Hell he can. He’s being paid by special interest groups, Soros, and probably pilfered from the taxpayer cookie jar. $6B did come up missing.


10 posted on 04/18/2016 7:52:12 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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The biggest mistake that conservatives ever made — including Ronald Reagan — was removing lower income people from paying taxes. It created a system where they can scream for more and more benefits without really paying. Everyone should pay some tax.


11 posted on 04/18/2016 7:52:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Not necessarily poor people. If you are a married couple, you can have up to nearly $100K in qualified stock dividends, and if that is your only income, you will pay $0 Federal income tax.

Unfortunately, the states are not so kind.


13 posted on 04/18/2016 7:55:02 AM PDT by proxy_user
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That's okay. I just paid for half a dozen of them.

No representation without taxation!

14 posted on 04/18/2016 7:55:02 AM PDT by IronJack
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My opinion for years has been that every citizen should be taxed $100 minimum just to be here.


15 posted on 04/18/2016 7:57:08 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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As a comparison to the 45% figure, consider that the Trump campaign is predicting that as much as 11 million households will pay no tax under Trump’s tax plan.
"If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income tax.” — Donald J Trump, Tax Reform

Additionally, the unconstitutional IRS should be required to print the following excerpt at the top of every return.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

16 posted on 04/18/2016 7:58:46 AM PDT by Amendment10
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In tax year 2014 27.5 million paid "negative income tax" via the Earned Income Tax Credit.
17 posted on 04/18/2016 7:59:04 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Bernie Sanders also likes to talk about income distribution. The bottom 20% of Americans in income also, in most cases, have no one in the house working.

If a family has someone working full-time, they immediately move up closer to the middle of income distribution.


19 posted on 04/18/2016 8:01:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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Alternative Minimum tax should be the minimum percentage that EVERY citizen and resident in the United States is required to pay.

Alternative Maximum tax should be the maximum percentage that ANY citizen and resident is required to pay.

This is the tax discussion the GOP should be having with the nation.


20 posted on 04/18/2016 8:04:04 AM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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According to plan........................


22 posted on 04/18/2016 8:08:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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45% of Americans pay no federal income tax

Should be 100%. Federal Income Tax is unconstitutional.

That being said, the 45% non-participation rate shows we are in the "bread & circuses" phase of our decline.

26 posted on 04/18/2016 8:25:19 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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And none of them should be eligible to vote IMHO.


27 posted on 04/18/2016 8:27:27 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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