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balli said:
Where's the part about the tenth man going home to a mega-mansion after the night at the bar, only to log into his online banking and find he still has millions of dollars... while the fifth guy goes 'home' to find out his meager west-side house has been re-possesed cause his wife got cancer?

Cause that's the part that's missing.
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balli said:
What I meant was that the tax system, as constituted, seems fair given the vast lifestyle differences that each man's socio-economic position allows.
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Fair enough. Guess I missed that balanced view buried in the sarcasm of the first post. My bad.
 
What this country REALLY needs is a tax on people that make nothing. And the constitution. And guns, lots of guns. Everyone with guns. Guns. And socialist fascist birth certificate.
 
NUMBERICA said:
What this country REALLY needs is a tax on people that make nothing. And the constitution. And guns, lots of guns. Everyone with guns. Guns. And socialist fascist birth certificate.
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The tax on people who make nothing is called hunger. Government intervention is not necessary.
 
What the first post leaves out is that the tax system in this country is written for the rich folk...I mean, why would it be any different than any other piece of legislation? Its not going to benefit the lower tiered people of this country?

The guy that is paying the 59 bucks on that beer can tax defer, use a tax shelter, write it off as a business expense, etc, etc.
 
Every time I read these types of threads I wait for the 2 or 3 extra-angry-at-society folks to either add the tiniest bit of substance to their pure emotional appeal, or, to get into incentives and how they relate to advancement. It never happens.
 
VINYLONE said:
What the first post leaves out is that the tax system in this country is written for the rich folk...I mean, why would it be any different than any other piece of legislation? Its not going to benefit the lower tiered people of this country?

The guy that is paying the 59 bucks on that beer can tax defer, use a tax shelter, write it off as a business expense, etc, etc.
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Really.

The top fifth of households made 56% of pre-tax income in 2006 but paid 86% of all individual income tax revenue collected, according to the most recent data available from the Congressional Budget Office. Narrowing in further: The top 1% of households, which made 19% of pre-tax income, paid 39% of all individual income taxes.
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The Tax Policy Center estimates that for 2009, 43% of tax units (most of which are lower income households that may or may not file a return) will have no income tax liability or will have a negative income tax liability, meaning the government will actually pay them.
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https://money.cnn.com/2009/04/15/pf/taxes/who_pays_most_least/

If I were the rich people making the tax policy I would certainly make sure that I paid no higher a proportion of the tax than I made. I would make sure I only paid 19% of the total tax or less as I make 19% of the pre-tax income.
 
franklin said:
Every time I read these types of threads I wait for the 2 or 3 extra-angry-at-society folks to either add the tiniest bit of substance to their pure emotional appeal, or, to get into incentives and how they relate to advancement. It never happens.
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In my experience even most CPA's have difficulty with the tax code. The average person can't fill out a 1040A form, yet the average fool ends up ranting on how the tax code is skewed to the rich, how rich people deduct everything, etc, yet they have zero idea what they are talking about, it is simply populist nonsense. They don't know the difference between a deduction, a credit, a shelter, a business expense, a non business related expense, a phase out, a capital gain or interest income.
 
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