(07-10-2012 01:07 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(07-10-2012 01:02 PM)RobertN Wrote:  I will try this one more time THE TOP 1% have a LARGE portion of ALL the damn money so the overall percentage of the pie will be higher even if they pay a lower individual rate.

But they don't pay a lower rate you simp. To bring this up is merely an attempt to justify raising their taxes more even though a quarter of their income is going to the fed (to say nothing of the state)...

And before you get all self righteous about how rich that top 25% is please keep in mind that if your household makes 75K a year you're in the top 25%.

If you're making over 100K (which two middle aged married teachers make) you're in the top 15%

You must have missed the part where I said that they may pay 25% on their "income" but their "income" is only a small part of their compensation. So their overall tax is actually lower than you are spinning.

Ok leftists, if you only raised taxes on those families making over 250k, how much would that bring in?

Answer: enough money to run the government barely 8 days.


"fair share" morons

I'd rather support ..."The rent's too damn high" dude.

(07-10-2012 08:45 PM)maximus Wrote:  Ok leftists, if you only raised taxes on those families making over 250k, how much would that bring in?

Answer: enough money to run the government barely 8 days.


"fair share" morons

Which goes to prove that this really isn't about the money. It's populist posturing which is really about deception, counting on the naivete of the citizens. They don't realize how huge and expensive to run this behemoth of big government really is.

We always say of the other side, "they can't be that stupid, can they?" Well, no they are not, but they are betting that the American voters are stupid enough to think that raising taxes on the rich will help things in any meaningful way.