- Joined
- Sep 3, 2010
- Messages
- 120,954
- Reaction score
- 28,531
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
I didn't think you were actually making enough to get to that rate based on earlier posts
but the rich pay a higher amount of taxes than you do
they pay a higher rate on earned income, investment income as well
FICA is not a progressive tax and its based on earned income not overall income-fail on your part
and most rich people pay more than you do
and if all their income is investment income they won't get as much social security will they?
nice try fail
How does a constant repetition of the exact same talking points in post after post after post and in thread after thread after thread constitute anything other than spamming? Your same talking points have been refuted so often and by so many people that I am surprised even you can still type the words without bursting into laughter knowing the utter ridiculousness of what you are saying.
You keep saying that the issue is that the rich pay more but you have been shown over and over and over that the rich now pay a LOWER PERCENTAGE of thier income in taxes than at any time in the last seven decades.
You keep saying that the rich pay the highest rate on capital gains but you have been shown over and over and over that the rate itself - 15% - is tremendously preferential and discriminatory since well over 80% of the breaks from it go to the very wealthy.
You do not want FICA taxes considered in the over all tax burden percentage a person pays and you keep saying it was not suppose to be a progressive tax but you ignore that over and over and over again the other side is NOT asking for FICA to be progressive. They are merely advocating that 100% of American earners pay the SAME FICA percentage on 100% of their income. Nobody is asking FICA be made a progressive tax. NOBODY.
You keep whining that rich people pay more tax that non rich people but you have been told over and over and over that when one calculates ALL taxes a person pays, many rich people pay an over all SMALLER percentage of their income to government than some working people do.
You keep whining about the rich paying more but you conveniently play ostrich to the economic reality that a very tiny percentage of rich Americans control a very large percentage of money and wealth in America.
You follow the orders of your corporate and ideological masters (how do you like it when others claim you have masters) and keep using the neologism DEATH TAX long after even your yourself cannot provide on name of one person whose death was taxed without a transfer of significant wealth to another.
If you have been schooled on these realties once, you have been schooled on them hundreds of times Turtle. Hundreds and hundreds of times by many many different posters.
But you keep coming back and posting the exact same talking points over and over and over again in thread after thread after thread in your cause celebre to lower your own personal tax bite and the nation be damned.
That is not debate. It is a broken record. And its got a lousy beat and you can't dance to it either.
Last edited: