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Who include plenty of people who still do work, including many military members. I guarantee that for at least the 3rd year in a row, my family will be in that bracket of "47%", and that is how long my husband has been active duty Navy. It is also guaranteed that next year we will definitely be in the same situation since the only taxable income my family will earn at all next year will be my reserve weekend and AT pay, which will be maybe $7K. My husband will be in the ME until late next year, if not longer. All of his pay as long as he is there is tax free. We have 2 children, and I go to college. We will have more than enough tax credits to make up for what taxes we would owe on income.
There is nothing that sets us apart, as Americans, from those who do pay taxes on what they earn. We are still Americans. Heck, many military members in the same position as us that I know are Republicans.
You know this is just ****ing sad as hell. Our military personnel should NOT be making so low a pay grade as to put them in the 47% bracket. They risk thier very lives for this country and get very little compensation for it? Not to mention the PTSD, nightmares, cold sweats and god knows what else our service members have to go through. Its one thing to pay a moderately low pay grade when the service members are sitting at home with never once having set foot in a war zone, quite another to pay them that same wage when they are in the war zone. Any service member that is out in the danger zones for at least 1 full tour should be recieving 5 times what a general sitting at home in the States should be making...particularly one thats never set foot in a war zone....and for the rest of thier lives. (so long as they are not dishonerably discharged that is)