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New thought, I propose a one time Federal income tax free year.

hanger4 said:
Already have, but for the dimwitted :wink2: I'll explain. Corps/business assign a price to their goods and or services which cover all costs of doing business, taxes are a cost of doing business. Ergo their consumers pay their taxes.
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So that is your rationalization as how you think it works.

One could also say that employees pay no taxes on their income, the employer ultimately does.

But then, you are only parroting a conservative talking point to begin with - and you knew it.
 
haymarket said:
So that is your rationalization as how you think it works.

One could also say that employees pay no taxes on their income, the employer ultimately does.

But then, you are only parroting a conservative talking point to begin with - and you knew it.
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In that employers pay half of their employees SS withholdings, yes, but labor cost are already a cost of doing business and figured in to their cost of goods and services as to the potential of tax liability.
 
hanger4 said:
In that employers pay half of their employees SS withholdings, yes, but labor cost are already a cost of doing business and figured in to their cost of goods and services as to the potential of tax liability.
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But all of an employees taxes come from money they earn from the employer.

So if you can claim that corporate and business taxes are really paid but its customers, then one can rightfully claim that employees income taxes (in fact all taxes) are rightfully paid by the employer because that is the source of their pay.

It is a silly game and I would rather it not be played as it defies common sense and we all know why you are saying it in the first place as a conservative talking point.
 
nekrodev said:
not even the top 10%, literally just the top 1%. that's around $400,000 (or more, obviously) per year in America. also, corporations, which are really the kicker, since that's already about 50% of our tax revenue, even with so many of them getting loopholes and dodging them entirely.

there isn't a set amount that "everyone making over 400k a year" should pay. obviously, if you're making a million a year, you should pay a higher percentage. if you're making 20 million a year, you should be paying a higher percentage. also, there's marginal tax, so they maybe only need to pay more AFTER certain thresholds. I'm not an economist, I don't have their tax returns, it's not up to me. however, most Americans understand that someone isn't pulling their weight, and those of us who are poor or in the middle of the road, can't really do much more than we already do. so, clearly, the people with millions or billions in their bank accounts need to.
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I’m just asking what % of the tax burden the rich should bear

Note that corporate taxes are irrelevant since any raise in those will be passed along to the consumer
 
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