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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
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Originally Posted by barney-fife";p="
Roughly half of all wage earnes pay zero federal income taxes. Zero. Half the wage earners pay nothing in federal income taxes. The top 10% wage earners pay roughly one-third of all income taxes.
If it's fairness you seek, then might I suggest all wage earners pay federal income taxes? In other words, the only fair thing to do is increase taxes on the poor.
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You do realize that you are only refering to the income taxes. Not all federal taxes. Even the poorest pay 7.65% social security and medicare. And you do know that the social security tax revenue is not used for social security, but for the general spending of the government. So in reality the poor still pay 7.65% federal taxes for general spending. |
...they don't work, and many if them still collect SS and medicare.