 How the tax system works |
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| How the tax system works |
 Feb 22 2008, 10:35 AM
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QUOTE (blaarg @ Feb 22 2008, 10:09 AM)  They pay the most taxes $$$ wise, but is it true if you considered it the percentage of their income? Yeah they pay a higher percentage. Just look at the tax table. Not to mention people who make millions have tons of other taxes (capital gains, big taxes on interest earned, etc). Yeah someone who made $750,000 probably won't pay all that much higher of a % than someone who made $500,000, but will definitely pay a higher % over someone who made $50,000. |
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Feb 22 2008, 11:20 AM
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QUOTE (impala454 @ Feb 22 2008, 10:01 AM) Never understood why it takes a layman's story for people to understand that rich people pay the most taxes, and therefore benefit the most from tax breaks. Because most laymen's stories such as this one are gross undersimplifications that don't represent the way the system works. -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Feb 22 2008, 11:44 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
I'm just going to type this up to see my new avatar. Oh, and I don't agree at all with what y'all are saying. But y'all already knew that.
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Feb 22 2008, 11:46 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Oh goody, another avatar to adblock. What a horrible ass-raping of Tenacious D.
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Feb 22 2008, 11:48 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
Christine... HUSH. I like it. I just wish they would've given hillary a penis.
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Feb 22 2008, 11:49 AM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
QUOTE (Psykopath @ Feb 22 2008, 10:09 AM) HAHAHA Disenfranchisement much? Seriously, Aaron....how truthful are you being with your posted political views on Techsans? Because you call Obama an "evil liberal hippie communist end-of-world blah blah waaaaah" guy, yet you make completely unAmerican and fucked up statements like that... People who do not contribute to the US economy should not have a say in US economic policy. It's the same logic that pro-choice people use. Men shouldn't have a right to dictate how a woman cares for her body. Seriously, why should a bunch of jobless laid-off union workers blown out of their minds on cocaine and marajuana who are milking the companies they used to work for on health insurance because they're too stupid to not destroy themselves be able to dictate how much of my paycheck that I actually earn goes to trying to fix their fuckups in life? -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Feb 22 2008, 11:58 AM
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QUOTE (Melanie @ Feb 22 2008, 11:44 AM) I'm just going to type this up to see my new avatar. Oh, and I don't agree at all with what y'all are saying. But y'all already knew that. With what who is saying? -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Feb 22 2008, 12:05 PM
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 Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Feb 22 2008, 11:49 AM) People who do not contribute to the US economy should not have a say in US economic policy. It's the same logic that pro-choice people use. Men shouldn't have a right to dictate how a woman cares for her body. Seriously, why should a bunch of jobless laid-off union workers blown out of their minds on cocaine and marajuana who are milking the companies they used to work for on health insurance because they're too stupid to not destroy themselves be able to dictate how much of my paycheck that I actually earn goes to trying to fix their fuckups in life? So elected officials only decide economic policy? Wow, news to me. -------------------- |
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Feb 22 2008, 12:26 PM
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DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
QUOTE (Psykopath @ Feb 22 2008, 01:05 PM) So elected officials only decide economic policy? Wow, news to me. Who votes them into office is what I'm getting at here. And no, just because a few news headlines claim that Obama's "gaining support" from young twenty-something well-paid college graduates doesn't overturn the fact that Democrats primarily scrape the bottom of the barrel of American society for votes.... -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Feb 22 2008, 12:31 PM
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Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Feb 22 2008, 12:26 PM) Who votes them into office is what I'm getting at here. And no, just because a few news headlines claim that Obama's "gaining support" from young twenty-something well-paid college graduates doesn't overturn the fact that Democrats primarily scrape the bottom of the barrel of American society for votes.... I've seen plenty of white-trash rednecks (i.e.- "bottom of the barrel of American society") vote Republican. -------------------- |
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Feb 22 2008, 12:37 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
Clarification, the income point is $75,000, not $70k.
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Feb 22 2008, 01:18 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
haha I'm loving this because the people that are the most vocal conservatives that are for these economic policies are middle Americans that are in the lower socio-economic bracket.
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Feb 22 2008, 01:20 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (Psykopath @ Feb 22 2008, 12:31 PM) I've seen plenty of white-trash rednecks (i.e.- "bottom of the barrel of American society") vote Republican. Right but they aren't exactly the "targeted" voters by the Republican candidates. |
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Feb 22 2008, 01:23 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Feb 22 2008, 01:18 PM) haha I'm loving this because the people that are the most vocal conservatives that are for these economic policies are middle Americans that are in the lower socio-economic bracket. ??? What policies? Obama's? -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Feb 22 2008, 01:27 PM
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DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
QUOTE (Psykopath @ Feb 22 2008, 01:31 PM) I've seen plenty of white-trash rednecks (i.e.- "bottom of the barrel of American society") vote Republican. Were they employed? -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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