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http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm

Play with the numbers and tell me that people who make over 200,000 are not paying a shitload in federal income tax and that everyone is paying more in 2012 than they were in 2000.

A flat tax would take away all the perceived inequity in the tax code. Which is still a tax, though and someone can raise and lower it and we'll still be talking about everyone's "fair share."

Nah, you're arguing something else completely and I'm not getting into that, your opinion on Taxes is noted.

 

[TheVictors]

I want to apologize to tsmith for the personal attack. I recognized this thread as trolling, which it is, but he struck a very personal nerve with this tragedy and I don't see relevance with the tired old campaign of indicting the media as being biased. FoxNews fucks up constantly but never once would tsmith begin a similar thread about that.

A police officer was shot in the head a few weeks ago at a weekly public concert we regularly attend, trying to break up a dispute over a girl and then this horrible thing a few miles away.

I'm sick and tired of superficial crap like this thread when it's clear what really matters. And don't trivialize the deaths of a dozen people just to advance some stupid, archaic line nobody believes anymore.

My neighbors getting slaughtered by a maniac armed with weapons that are more readily available due to the lobbying efforts of one of the biggest lobbies in DC and you want to rehash 1997 era Rush Limbaugh shit?!

 

[redandguilty]

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm

Play with the numbers and tell me that people who make over 200,000 are not paying a shitload in federal income tax and that everyone is paying more in 2012 than they were in 2000.

A flat tax would take away all the perceived inequity in the tax code. Which is still a tax, though and someone can raise and lower it and we'll still be talking about everyone's "fair share."

I see people paying less in 2012. A person making 20-25k pays around 2% of income less in taxes, but as you get to very big incomes, the percent grows to 4.6%

 

[byco42]

I see people paying less in 2012. A person making 20-25k pays around 2% of income less in taxes, but as you get to very big incomes, the percent grows to 4.6%

I see people hypnotized into a mindset that the gub'mint has a moral obligation to scarf a chunk of our income from our possession precisely because we are productive. And they are so certain of their moral imperative that it takes it from our earnings even before our money gets to us.

There are exceptions, of course. Me being one of them. I file quarterly returns. I think I'll just send the IRS a copy of my extended middle finger in the next packet to see what happens. Stay tuned.

 

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I see people hypnotized into a mindset that the gub'mint has a moral obligation to scarf a chunk of our income from our possession precisely because we are productive. And they are so certain of their moral imperative that it takes it from our earnings even before our money gets to us.

There are exceptions, of course. Me being one of them. I file quarterly returns. I think I'll just send the IRS a copy of my extended middle finger in the next packet to see what happens. Stay tuned.

Staying tuned.

Don;t drop the soap.

 

[elrod817]

Staying tuned.

Don;t drop the soap.

Especially since you look like Anderson Cooper. Some of the guys might mistake you for him and think...well you know...

 

[redandguilty]

I see people hypnotized into a mindset that the gub'mint has a moral obligation to scarf a chunk of our income from our possession precisely because we are productive. And they are so certain of their moral imperative that it takes it from our earnings even before our money gets to us.

There are exceptions, of course. Me being one of them. I file quarterly returns. I think I'll just send the IRS a copy of my extended middle finger in the next packet to see what happens. Stay tuned.

Is it motivated by a moral obligation or a practical one? There's no way to quantify the benefit each individual receives from government, but it is not equal for all people - not even close. In the absence of a way to quantify each individual's benefit, we make the practical decision to approximate it through a combination of taxes on possession, consumption, and production. (...and we will argue about the balance of that approximation as long as there are taxes.)