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.
BTTT
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.
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?
In 2001, Rumsfeld went on national TV and talked about how $2.3T in defense spending is unaccounted for. I see stories like this and I think, “You know, if I’m angry at the poor or lazy, I won’t be thinking about the real money being stolen in real time.”
$2.3T is a lot of money in 2001. It’s probably double that in 2024 dollars? Plus, how much more is gone?
Squeeze out a few welfare babies who will never know who dad is,
Apply for SSI for the kids over and over and over and over and over and over until they get approved for having ADHD or behavior problems,
Max out on food stamps,
Move into free section 8 housing with energy assistance,
file bogus self-employment on your taxes to get a sweet EITC check every year,
In your ample free time, squeeze out more welfare babies
It’s a living
Partially true, and partially not.
You only get the earned income tax credit if have SOME income, therefor those who get the earned income tax credit did do SOME work. And you can get the earned income tax credit without having dependents, and in that not also getting any child tax credit.
The other category both the tax rules and the idea behind this article miss is that there are all sorts of people, millions possibly, illegal aliens among them, who get cash unreported income. They work and are paid by someone, in cash, either by the job, or daily, weekly or monthly even, with no record of it sent to the IRS. They are part of the economy but their data is not in any official tax numbers. The IRS has used a number of methods to estimate the unreported income. It’s huge, about $500 billion. One question is, how draconian would Federal laws and regulations become to catch all cash income, and no natter the financial result would we like the legal result. The quandary almost makes you want to go for a national sales tax, an idea I have personally never liked.
About 18% of the population is retired and collecting Social Security, and this will rise to 23% in the next 2 years. Quite a few of them have low incomes.
There is a claim that while low-income households may not contribute significantly to federal income taxes, they do contribute to other forms of taxation such as payroll taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes on their homes. However, these arguments are easily refuted.
The Social Security contributions of the low-income group are minimal because they earn less money and work less frequently. Middle-income and high-income groups pay more into Social Security, with the maximum contribution occurring at an income of $168,000.
Where in the Constitution does it say that Caucasian Americans are responsible for supporting freeloading foreigners looking for a free ride they refer to as “a better life.”
Two words: Birth Control. We could solve this problem within a generation if we give higher benefits in exchange for sterilization. Time to cull the herd - it’s not just the case that our native born underclass doesn’t want to work it’s also that when they are hired they do a crap job.
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