Black Conservative NFL Star Annihilates Democrats During Reparations Hearing

Romney probably paid a whole lot more total taxes than you, while not using any more government services.

 

prove it

 

My word is good enough and I also take your words as honesty too. I'm just pointing out that not many can claim they don't know what percentage of their income or worth is being paid towards tax

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so you can't prove it.... got it

 

Romney is rich, he paid less tax per dollar he earned then I did, much less

 

Nope I cant, I can just give you my word I ABSOLUTELY know what percentage of my money is being levied from my income.. I'm just having a difficult time understanding why you wouldn't when I don't think anyone from a 1040ez on up to a businessman with billions and team of tax specialist DOESNT know what they are paying out, how does that even happen?

 

How is it you know the percentage Romney pays but haven't a clue what your own percentage is

 

cause I looked it up with a google search, duh

I have no desire to dig out my tax forms right now.... cause even if I did, you would not believe me, so what is the point

just like you can't prove it to me, I can't prove it to you

 

I know mine right off the top of my head EASY! No going thru the files NADDA, I simply put the little two digit number to memory LOL..

And I'm not going to divulge my income or tax burdens, I'm giving you honest fact that I can/could tell you the percentage of tax I pay pretty much every year for the last ten anyway

 

good for your, looking at my last paystub, mine is between 25 and 30 percent

guess we will have to take each others word for it

 

I don't think he would actually know ¯\_(º¸º)_/¯

 

Paystub, now was that so damn hard bro?

 

I happen to bounce over to youtube yesterday and saw the "live" hearing notice so I flipped to it, saw that it was about reparations so i'm like this should be interesting, turns out the first speaker I hear is Burgess Owens. My first thought was "holy crap!, I don't think they exptected to hear "this" opinion, he was pretty blunt, pulled no punches, and even used the term bootstraps. I swear if he had been a white dude saying the exact same words you would hear the crowd shouting him down, the gavel banging, "order, order" it would have been a big azz mess.

I did stick around and listen for about 30-40 minutes but I hate to admit it, it was a jumbled mess, and I like Glover but he rambled on senselessly, interrupted people more than once, but no way in hell a white congressman was going to interrupt his rambling.

I turned if off due to a combination of hunger and boredom, maybe the rest of the hearings were jam packed with useful info but the half hour-ish that I invested in it was a big waste.

 

if he paid 15 he paid more than I did.

Crap, who do I complain to about that? (my boss? lol)

 

Much of what the wealthy get in income is from long term capital gains, which are irrelevant to income tax rates.

 

republicans, they are the tax cuts for the rich crowd

 

income is income, labored income should not be taxed more then unlabored income

 

yet I got a tax cut and i'm paying less than the rich, tax cuts that my previous democratic senator voted down, i'm pretty confident that i'm not the only one that went through the same thought process last november. We voted him out, enjoy your retirement bill nelson.

 

I actually disagree there, I get a decent amount of capital gains every year through dividends and some property, 15% seems fair.

With that said, I would support a progressive capital gains tax, 15% up to say 250K, 20% to a million 25% over 5 million, etc.. I'd be fine with that, seems fair enough. Same goes for distributions from business, which bypasses payroll tax, should have some kind of limit before it gets surcharged.

 

I would support the first say 25k of investment income be tax free, then anything above that taxed like regular income

 

I don't necessarily agree with you, but I do respect your consistency on this.

 

Ahem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

 

Those are not bailouts or direct payments like welfare is.

Those are tax cuts. You know. Allowing companies to KEEP more of their OWN money.

 

If its so easy to get long-term capital gains, why doesn't everyone do it?

 

Safety net, yes. Life long teat, no.