Do you think you'll make it into the top 1%?

No, I'm not Jewish.

 

For starters, the same rate or higher for the ones that make more, not the stupid idea (Bush Tax Cuts) that the wealthier you are, the lower the rate at which you pay.

Fair share is not the same amount of taxes for everyone (sounds like that is what you think), so, I'm wasting my time trying to explain it to someone that appears to not have a clue.

 

LOL! Just like great minds think alike, I'm sure airheads also think alike.

 

You are confusing the low earners with the needy and handicapped. Most low earners don't qualify for many government benefits - you on the other hand, don't mind the government taking more of the money you earn, so the rich can keep even more of theirs. Not too bright, if you ask me.

If it wasn't for you and others like you, the wealthy people who own the company you work for wouldn't be earning 300% more each year while your pay remains stagnant.

As long as people keep thinking the same as you, the wealthy will just keep taking advantage of the middle-class.

I ask you: are you prospering?
Groups like the Tax Foundation will tell you the tax burden of the Top 1% now exceeds the taxes paid by the remaining 95% of filers. This is correct. America's MOST RICH are paying more ... yet I show conclusively that the MOST RICH are paying more in total taxes because they have become increasingly wealthy and are hogging more and more of the American economic pie. Contrary to their claims, America's MOST RICH are paying relatively less tax than three decades ago and ensuring the financial devastation of you and your family.
http://www.scottgoold.org/classwar.php

Keep voting Republican, and eventually, even those that think they are making so much, will be aware that they are not advancing - that's because the uber wealthy will make sure you just make enough to keep you thinking you are doing okay, while they continue to rake it in, and gain more control of the government.

 

Pretty much this. If I haven't done anything to deserve it why should I be part of the top 1% ? Why should I have a metric ton of money simply because I exist? I think all the people in the 99% movement are overexaggerating the issue quite a bit. I am afraid I don't quite have enough time to particpate in it. I have a job.

 

Why do you assert the the lower income groups pay a higher effective rate?

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=456

After you have gone to the above link and educated yourself you can revise and extend your remarks.

Ok what is the fair share of the bottom 50% of earners? The top 1%? The top 25%?

 

Income tax isn't the only tax, and you know that. Intellectual dishonesty doesn't win a debate, it just makes a person look dishonest.

 

can you give some real life numbers to demonstrate this claim ?

 

its well known that if you put your money into a tax exempt foundation, you dont pay taxes on that money...

thats not a bush thing though, thats not the issue...

The issue is capital gains taxes, which according to Obama:
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This is bad though. It allows the SUPER RICH to get richer. it doesnt create jobs at all. The tax cut that does create jobs is a middle class tax cut, up to $1million a year. this is the realm of the small businesses. there isnt any multi-millionaires in the small business sector. A capital gains tax should be higher...

 

I will agree, there is no reason that wages should be "income" and gains not income. There is also no reason for tax exempt foundations.

all of our taxes could be a lot lower.

 

You all dont seem to understand the concept of the top 1%.

Do you really think you can roll with the Rothschilds, who are so rich, they own London, England. Thats an entire city.

This article explains how the Rothschilds, are the 1%:

http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html

So this poll, is null...

There is no way in hell anybody can just be in the 1%

 

There should be no tax, but for consumption.

America was revolutionized because of unfair income taxes from Britain.

Sad part is, throught the Federal Reserve system, Britain is still taxing us...

 

"income" tax is an insidious transfer of wealth from the wage earners to the corporatist class.

 

The Rothschilds are only the 1% if you round the 0.001% up. There are only a few people nearly that rich, and the vast majority of the 1% aren't anywhere near that category. People like this aren't at all representative of the 1%.

 

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You're talking about people who are the top .00000000001%

That's quite a bit different.

So you can, and maybe occasionally without knowing it do, roll with the 1%.

 

Yes but the usage of 1% keeps things distorted and arguable, when in fact the rich/elites who do most of the damage, control the wealth, own the government, are actually members of a much smaller unit, even though those in the top 3-5% insure their power is solidified, in hopes that one day they will be accepted into the fold of the .00000001% or what ever the exact silly number is.

Comparing someone who makes a couple hundred thousand annually to someone who easily takes home 30-100 million annually is like comparing the bottom 1% with somebody at the 95% mark. IOW not comparable at all.

 

You kidding me??? I'd love to be in the top 1% and never have to pay any taxes. Who wouldn't?

 

Uncle Ferd says when he wins the lottery...

... he gonna buy him a top hat...

... with 1% onna front of it.

 

The top 1% pays the highest effective and marginal tax rates, why do you believe you wouldn't be paying any taxes?

 

Here we go again.

 

seen that here already, someone drives an aston martin here with 1 percent on the tag

 

Do you think you'll make it into the top 1%?

What sort of weird sicko would want to?

 

awe shucks, sour grapes.

 

absolutely correct.
The "top 1%" has been carefully crafted as a political buzz word.
There is no reasonable comparison between those in the 99.001 percentile and the 99.999 percentile.

 

Maybe. But I don't need to get there in order to be happy.