I remember when liberal Warren Buffet made a big deal about how his secretary paid a higher percentage of federal income taxes than he did. I wanted to laugh because all Warren had to do was give her a HUGE raise. And he had the money to do it. But that's just par for liberals who want always look at how it's the gov't's fault and not their own.

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Probably. But why does that matter?

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Man up.

To be clear: I did not mean to say that payroll taxes mean the poor pay a higher share of their income in taxes than the wealthy. Only that they balance out the income taxes a bit.

SS is capped at $102,000. By the time you reach $200,000 or so in income, SS taxes are not a significant factor, percentagewise. For the truly wealthy, it's not even a rounding error.

Yep. Never said otherwise.

Again, please note that you have jumped on the *only* time I used the word "receive" in the entire post. Everywhere else I wrote "earned". Stop getting bunged up about word choice and respond to the argument.

Concerns about income inequality aside, who's demonizing them? Remember, I'm responding to a post that implies it's somehow unfair that the wealthy pay more in taxes.

Good for them. So? How is that relevant?

(Never mind that their education was almost certainly subsidized by taxpayers, either through tax deductions for educational expenses, tax support for public universities, tax deducations for charitable contributions to private school endowments, student loans or grants).

Because when discussing tax burden, it's misleading to only talk about the income tax, which is only part of the total federal tax burden.

It would be like taking a look at taxes on luxury goods, noting that they are overwhelmingly paid by the wealthy, and implying that that tax burden is representative of the overall tax burden.

Good for you; neither do I. We're talking about tax policy, not "the wealthy are evil."

One does not have to resent the rich to support a mildly progressive tax policy.

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Man up.

By the way, did Warren Buffet scratch that check yet, to make up for all the taxes he DIDN'T pay? He seemed awfully distraught over the imbalance.

Not so easy to walk the walk, I guess.

He gave $50 Billion to charity. What did you do?

Ixtellor

P.S. Whats it like living in a cave?

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Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

"Charity" does not mean "taxes."

Charity = voluntary

P.S. What's it like having a superiority complex?

naah, what's $333,333? chicken feed. of course then you've got to actually pay for things... like taxes on your cars, houses, every day things. they'll roughly tax that down to $500,000, and that money goes towards such good things: like building roads, feeding the hungry politicians, paying for soldiers in iraq and iran, the irs, the banks, oh and lastly poor people who lost their job because their employer couldn't pay his taxes.

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So your logic is that if we are not there, the number will go down... That makes perfect sense... not.

LOL. That's a good question for the professor.

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Not acknowledging that government action is the sole cause of inflation is a mistake. Not acknowledging that eliminating its ability to print fiat currency at the drop of a hat will stop inflation is a mistake.


No, it doesn't increase costs in the budget in the short term if you use assets to pay off the debt.

Yes, we have a logical definition of "non-essential" - unlike the collectivist statists.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Warren Buffet has stated many beliefs of his, here are two:

1) He thinks he should pay more taxes.
2) He thinks taxpayer money should go to helping the less fortunate.

So while he could have written a check to George Bush, that probably would have quickly been handed over to haliburton...

He instead gave over half of his fortune to helping those less fortunate.

So when you say silly things like "did Warren Buffet scratch that check yet, to make up for all the taxes he DIDN'T pay"

The answer is YES.

He wrote the largest check in the history of man kind to go towards a job he felt the government ought to be doing.

The largest donation a Republican has made? Building a stadium and world class practice facilities for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. How noble...

Your brains freeze up because the wealthy republicans of this nation are the most miserly bunch to ever hoard money, and you can't understand how the rich Democrats put thier money where their mouth is.


Ixtellor

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