DemoRATS have now declared political civil war....

[PoliticalChic]

"Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


So you are acknowledging that the Democrats are thieves and that Socialism is theft?


Excellent.

You have my vote.

Absolutely not. Is russian your first language? The United States is theft from the Non rich and giving it to the rich at this point dumbass.

Actually, Korean is my first language....

You said this..."Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


Now you appear to regret same.


You also appear quite the dunce: "The United States is theft from the Non rich..."
This is a logical impossibility.

The poor pay no taxes....the upper 50% pay all of them.

You're neither that bright, nor that educated, are you.

You are totally brainwashed dear. Google the only tax graph you need to know. If you include all taxes everybody's paying about 27% including the richest, who are getting 99% of all the new wealth for years now.

By now, even you should realize that I am never wrong.

I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.



"Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

(Bloomberg) -- Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

If past statistics can offer any guidance, in 2016, $1.44 trillion income taxes were paid by 140.9 million taxpayers reporting a total of $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income, according to data recently released by the Internal Revenue Services.

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

· The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

· The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

· In other words, the bottom 50 percent paid 3 percent. Which small percentile of tax payers also paid 3 percent or more? You might have guessed it. It is the top 0.001%, or about 1,400 taxpayers. That group alone paid 3.25 percent of all income taxes. In 2001, the bottom 50 percent paid nearly 5 percent whereas the top 0.001 percent of filers paid 2.3 percent of income taxes."
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016

1. If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
   1. Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!
   2. “Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

yes you are baffled by b******* about federal income taxes, our only progressive tags, and which is getting to be smaller and smaller as percentage of the overall tax bite.
and that's dear is why we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and people. So we are losing the competition. No matter how many $7 jobs there are....

How could I be the one who is baffled, when I just taught you a lesson?


Not only don't the bottom 50% pay taxes, but Republicans have seen to it that the working poor get a tax benefit....

1. The EITC has a sterling Republican heritage. It was first instituted in the 1920s by a Republican Congress at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Repealed in 1943, Republican President Gerald Ford revived it in 1975.
   1. EITC supporters argued that because the credit would be available only to those with earned income, it would reinforce work incentives and help get people off welfare. By making the credit refundable, it would offset the disincentive effects of higher payroll tax rates, which had risen from 4.8 percent on workers and employers in 1970 to 5.85 percent in 1975.
2. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported a big increase in the EITC rate from 10 percent to 14 percent. In 1990, George H.W. Bush supported a further increase.
3. Despite the exploding cost of the EITC, Republicans in Congress created another tax credit in the 1997 tax bill. The child credit was intended to make it easier for mothers to stay at home and raise their children, rather than work outside the home. Republicans and the Earned Income Tax Credit

4. “…the earned income tax credit ("EITC") that was enacted by Gerald Ford and then re-enacted and expanded in 1986 by... could it be, don't tell me, say it ain't so!... Ronald Reagan.” Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit | HuffPost

5. “…a child care tax deduction included in the immense Internal Revenue Code of 1954…” http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17275&area=All

6. The origins of the EITC, which has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower-income people, can be found in Ronald Reagans famous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in 1972, where he proposed exempting the working poor from all Social Security and income taxes as an alternative to welfare. It was that testimony that led Congress to adopt the credit in 1975. As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets. In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for ”folks who make less” all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody, but a higher percentage of income of lower-income workers.

Gingrich’s Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced tax liabilities of lower-income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people. And Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income tax still get full credit. And Bush adopted a lower tax bracket of 10%, a reduction of 33% (compared to the 11.6% drop for highest income workers.)

Thus, by 2007, the bottom 40% paid no income tax.
Ferrara, “ America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” p. 220.




See....yet another lesson you should thank me for.

 

[PoliticalChic]

AND....


"... the earned income tax credit (the pride of Ronald Reagan), which has become the biggest and most effective antipoverty program by giving working families thousands of dollars a year in tax refunds."
Opinion | The New Resentment of the Poor



Recent Census data show that among working families, the EITC lifts substantially more children out of poverty than any other government program or category of programs. The EITC is particularly important in reducing poverty among children in the South, where working families tend to have lower wages and consequently are more likely to qualify for the EITC. In addition, a just-released study by Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty found that the EITC reduces poverty among young children by nearly one fourth. | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities



"In truth, Republicans invented the first refundable tax credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), back in the 1970s. And it was Republicans who invented the child credit in the 1990s. As a result of the EITC, the child credit and other tax cuts, the percentage of those with no income tax liability has risen to 30 percent of all tax filers, according to the Tax Foundation.


The combination of EITC and the child credit offsets 100 percent of the income tax liability for almost all families with incomes below $30,000.

And because of refundability, 100 percent of the payroll tax is also offset for those with incomes below $20,000.

Those with earnings below $10,000 pay no income taxes and get a check from the government for 2.6 times their payroll tax liability."
Error 404

 

[francoHFW]

AND....


"... the earned income tax credit (the pride of Ronald Reagan), which has become the biggest and most effective antipoverty program by giving working families thousands of dollars a year in tax refunds."
Opinion | The New Resentment of the Poor



Recent Census data show that among working families, the EITC lifts substantially more children out of poverty than any other government program or category of programs. The EITC is particularly important in reducing poverty among children in the South, where working families tend to have lower wages and consequently are more likely to qualify for the EITC. In addition, a just-released study by Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty found that the EITC reduces poverty among young children by nearly one fourth. | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities



"In truth, Republicans invented the first refundable tax credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), back in the 1970s. And it was Republicans who invented the child credit in the 1990s. As a result of the EITC, the child credit and other tax cuts, the percentage of those with no income tax liability has risen to 30 percent of all tax filers, according to the Tax Foundation.


The combination of EITC and the child credit offsets 100 percent of the income tax liability for almost all families with incomes below $30,000.

And because of refundability, 100 percent of the payroll tax is also offset for those with incomes below $20,000.

Those with earnings below $10,000 pay no income taxes and get a check from the government for 2.6 times their payroll tax liability."
Error 404

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%. Add fees and they're probably over 20% too. Can you read my posts? You are not interested in the truth troll. Check you much later

 

[M14 Shooter]

There are huge loopholes in background checks, like private sales for crying out loud. Etc etc

^^^
This is a statement of abject ignorance from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot.
It is impossible to legally avoid the background checks demanded by federal law - thus, there is no loophole in said federal law.
Whoever told you there is a loophole in that law lied to you, and as a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot, you are too intellectually incompetent to find out for yourself.

 

[M14 Shooter]

No Democrats has cut income tax for anyone since JFK.
if you weren't a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot, you'd know this.

I know Carter wanted to...

^^^
A false claim by a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot.

More alternate facts from the dupes... Worst voters in the modern world by far.
On taking office, Carter proposed an economic stimulus package that would give each citizen a $50 tax rebate,....

I am not supposed you, a barely-function hyperpartisan bigot, do not understand the difference between proposed and enacted.

In November 1978, Carter signed the Revenue Act of 1978, an $18.7 billion tax cut.

And now, barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot, you need to show that these were income tax cuts that went to the non-rich.

Revenue act of 1978
The United States Revenue Act of 1978, Pub.L. 95–600, 92 Stat. 2763, enacted November 6, 1978, amended the Internal Revenue Code by reducing individual income taxes (widening tax brackets and reducing the number of tax rates), increasing the personal exemption from $750 to $1,000, reducing corporate tax rates (the top ...

As a a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot, you are obliviously - and embarrassingly - unaware that nothing here proves your claim that these tax cuts went to the non-rich.
I'll ask you to try again, and you will further embarrass yourself.

 

[M14 Shooter]

How much in taxes should one pay?

See if this helps:

How much in taxes?

Who is to decide what is fair, and what is too much? Some religions suggest tithing, and government demands taxes.

Joseph gathered very much grain: It seems it was customary for Pharaoh to take 10% of the grain in Egypt as a tax. Essentially, Joseph doubled the taxes over the next seven years (Genesis 41:34 mentions one-fifth, that is, 20%).

That 20% figure appears again in the relationship of colonists to North America, and the English crown "....colonists were free to retain all the profits and fruits of their labor save for the crown's 20 percent share of any gold and silver discovered." "Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828," by Walter A. McDougall, p.33

Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%. The rise should all be paid for by the bloated rich and giant corporations. At the moment it's ridiculous. Amazon should pay taxes online should be taxed I'm not sure exactly how much. Just about as much as everyone else I would guess. It's killing mom and pop stores
and competition.

"Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


So you are acknowledging that the Democrats are thieves and that Socialism is theft?


Excellent.

You have my vote.

Absolutely not. Is russian your first language? The United States is theft from the Non rich and giving it to the rich at this point dumbass.

Actually, Korean is my first language....

You said this..."Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


Now you appear to regret same.


You also appear quite the dunce: "The United States is theft from the Non rich..."
This is a logical impossibility.

The poor pay no taxes....the upper 50% pay all of them.

You're neither that bright, nor that educated, are you.

You are totally brainwashed dear.

Says a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot.

 

[M14 Shooter]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

 

[francoHFW]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

Google the only tax graph you need to know. All true.

 

[francoHFW]

AND....


"... the earned income tax credit (the pride of Ronald Reagan), which has become the biggest and most effective antipoverty program by giving working families thousands of dollars a year in tax refunds."
Opinion | The New Resentment of the Poor



Recent Census data show that among working families, the EITC lifts substantially more children out of poverty than any other government program or category of programs. The EITC is particularly important in reducing poverty among children in the South, where working families tend to have lower wages and consequently are more likely to qualify for the EITC. In addition, a just-released study by Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty found that the EITC reduces poverty among young children by nearly one fourth. | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities



"In truth, Republicans invented the first refundable tax credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), back in the 1970s. And it was Republicans who invented the child credit in the 1990s. As a result of the EITC, the child credit and other tax cuts, the percentage of those with no income tax liability has risen to 30 percent of all tax filers, according to the Tax Foundation.


The combination of EITC and the child credit offsets 100 percent of the income tax liability for almost all families with incomes below $30,000.

And because of refundability, 100 percent of the payroll tax is also offset for those with incomes below $20,000.

Those with earnings below $10,000 pay no income taxes and get a check from the government for 2.6 times their payroll tax liability."
Error 404

Everyone would prefer to get a living wage instead of trying to get eitc. The scam's like 25% of people don't apply for it.

 

[DOTR]

In ten years you would wish it was like this politically..

You haven't seen nothing yet.

.

Correct. Their nightmare hasn’t really begun yet. TDS just makes it feel that way.

 

[M14 Shooter]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

Google the only tax graph you need to know. All true.

^^^
The barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot knows he cannot support his assertion.

 

[francoHFW]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

Google the only tax graph you need to know. All true.

^^^
The barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot knows he cannot support his assertion.

Google the only tax graph you need to know dumbass.

 

[francoHFW]

Absolutely not. Is russian your first language? The United States is theft from the Non rich and giving it to the rich at this point dumbass.

Actually, Korean is my first language....

You said this..."Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


Now you appear to regret same.


You also appear quite the dunce: "The United States is theft from the Non rich..."
This is a logical impossibility.

The poor pay no taxes....the upper 50% pay all of them.

You're neither that bright, nor that educated, are you.

You are totally brainwashed dear. Google the only tax graph you need to know. If you include all taxes everybody's paying about 27% including the richest, who are getting 99% of all the new wealth for years now.

By now, even you should realize that I am never wrong.

I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.



"Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

(Bloomberg) -- Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

If past statistics can offer any guidance, in 2016, $1.44 trillion income taxes were paid by 140.9 million taxpayers reporting a total of $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income, according to data recently released by the Internal Revenue Services.

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

· The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

· The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

· In other words, the bottom 50 percent paid 3 percent. Which small percentile of tax payers also paid 3 percent or more? You might have guessed it. It is the top 0.001%, or about 1,400 taxpayers. That group alone paid 3.25 percent of all income taxes. In 2001, the bottom 50 percent paid nearly 5 percent whereas the top 0.001 percent of filers paid 2.3 percent of income taxes."
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016

1. If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
   1. Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!
   2. “Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

yes you are baffled by b******* about federal income taxes, our only progressive tags, and which is getting to be smaller and smaller as percentage of the overall tax bite.
and that's dear is why we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and people. So we are losing the competition. No matter how many $7 jobs there are....

How could I be the one who is baffled, when I just taught you a lesson?


Not only don't the bottom 50% pay taxes, but Republicans have seen to it that the working poor get a tax benefit....

1. The EITC has a sterling Republican heritage. It was first instituted in the 1920s by a Republican Congress at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Repealed in 1943, Republican President Gerald Ford revived it in 1975.
   1. EITC supporters argued that because the credit would be available only to those with earned income, it would reinforce work incentives and help get people off welfare. By making the credit refundable, it would offset the disincentive effects of higher payroll tax rates, which had risen from 4.8 percent on workers and employers in 1970 to 5.85 percent in 1975.
2. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported a big increase in the EITC rate from 10 percent to 14 percent. In 1990, George H.W. Bush supported a further increase.
3. Despite the exploding cost of the EITC, Republicans in Congress created another tax credit in the 1997 tax bill. The child credit was intended to make it easier for mothers to stay at home and raise their children, rather than work outside the home. Republicans and the Earned Income Tax Credit

4. “…the earned income tax credit ("EITC") that was enacted by Gerald Ford and then re-enacted and expanded in 1986 by... could it be, don't tell me, say it ain't so!... Ronald Reagan.” Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit | HuffPost

5. “…a child care tax deduction included in the immense Internal Revenue Code of 1954…” http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17275&area=All

6. The origins of the EITC, which has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower-income people, can be found in Ronald Reagans famous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in 1972, where he proposed exempting the working poor from all Social Security and income taxes as an alternative to welfare. It was that testimony that led Congress to adopt the credit in 1975. As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets. In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for ”folks who make less” all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody, but a higher percentage of income of lower-income workers.

Gingrich’s Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced tax liabilities of lower-income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people. And Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income tax still get full credit. And Bush adopted a lower tax bracket of 10%, a reduction of 33% (compared to the 11.6% drop for highest income workers.)

Thus, by 2007, the bottom 40% paid no income tax.
Ferrara, “ America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” p. 220.




See....yet another lesson you should thank me for.

Anything to avoid paying a living wageand investing in our infrastructure and people, which means taxing the rich their fair share. And of course you save all that money with people who don't complete the forms...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Actually, Korean is my first language....

You said this..."Of course being civilized means paying more than 20% probably 24 -25%."


Now you appear to regret same.


You also appear quite the dunce: "The United States is theft from the Non rich..."
This is a logical impossibility.

The poor pay no taxes....the upper 50% pay all of them.

You're neither that bright, nor that educated, are you.

You are totally brainwashed dear. Google the only tax graph you need to know. If you include all taxes everybody's paying about 27% including the richest, who are getting 99% of all the new wealth for years now.

By now, even you should realize that I am never wrong.

I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.



"Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

(Bloomberg) -- Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

If past statistics can offer any guidance, in 2016, $1.44 trillion income taxes were paid by 140.9 million taxpayers reporting a total of $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income, according to data recently released by the Internal Revenue Services.

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

· The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

· The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

· In other words, the bottom 50 percent paid 3 percent. Which small percentile of tax payers also paid 3 percent or more? You might have guessed it. It is the top 0.001%, or about 1,400 taxpayers. That group alone paid 3.25 percent of all income taxes. In 2001, the bottom 50 percent paid nearly 5 percent whereas the top 0.001 percent of filers paid 2.3 percent of income taxes."
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016

1. If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
   1. Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!
   2. “Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

yes you are baffled by b******* about federal income taxes, our only progressive tags, and which is getting to be smaller and smaller as percentage of the overall tax bite.
and that's dear is why we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and people. So we are losing the competition. No matter how many $7 jobs there are....

How could I be the one who is baffled, when I just taught you a lesson?


Not only don't the bottom 50% pay taxes, but Republicans have seen to it that the working poor get a tax benefit....

1. The EITC has a sterling Republican heritage. It was first instituted in the 1920s by a Republican Congress at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Repealed in 1943, Republican President Gerald Ford revived it in 1975.
   1. EITC supporters argued that because the credit would be available only to those with earned income, it would reinforce work incentives and help get people off welfare. By making the credit refundable, it would offset the disincentive effects of higher payroll tax rates, which had risen from 4.8 percent on workers and employers in 1970 to 5.85 percent in 1975.
2. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported a big increase in the EITC rate from 10 percent to 14 percent. In 1990, George H.W. Bush supported a further increase.
3. Despite the exploding cost of the EITC, Republicans in Congress created another tax credit in the 1997 tax bill. The child credit was intended to make it easier for mothers to stay at home and raise their children, rather than work outside the home. Republicans and the Earned Income Tax Credit

4. “…the earned income tax credit ("EITC") that was enacted by Gerald Ford and then re-enacted and expanded in 1986 by... could it be, don't tell me, say it ain't so!... Ronald Reagan.” Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit | HuffPost

5. “…a child care tax deduction included in the immense Internal Revenue Code of 1954…” http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17275&area=All

6. The origins of the EITC, which has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower-income people, can be found in Ronald Reagans famous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in 1972, where he proposed exempting the working poor from all Social Security and income taxes as an alternative to welfare. It was that testimony that led Congress to adopt the credit in 1975. As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets. In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for ”folks who make less” all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody, but a higher percentage of income of lower-income workers.

Gingrich’s Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced tax liabilities of lower-income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people. And Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income tax still get full credit. And Bush adopted a lower tax bracket of 10%, a reduction of 33% (compared to the 11.6% drop for highest income workers.)

Thus, by 2007, the bottom 40% paid no income tax.
Ferrara, “ America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” p. 220.




See....yet another lesson you should thank me for.

Anything to avoid paying a living wageand investing in our infrastructure and people, which means taxing the rich their fair share. And of course you save all that money with people who don't complete the forms...

Sit down....this will come as a shock: The Republicans pried the slaves away from the Democrats.....it was called the Civil War, it was in all the papers..


....this means that no one has to work at a job with which they are not satisfied.

Pay is offered, and it is voluntary at that point.

True story.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

Google the only tax graph you need to know. All true.

^^^
The barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot knows he cannot support his assertion.

Google the only tax graph you need to know dumbass.

Let's review the Democrat contribution to the economy.

1. The Democrat support for the 'Green New Deal' which guarantees taxpayer (that means 'earners' funds, stolen via taxation) to those who don't care to work.

Really.


2. From Peter Ferrara, “America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” chapter five.

1. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Such should be the epitaph of Liberalism.
2. ‘Welfare’ as a wholly owned subsidiary of the government, and its main result is the incentivizing of a disrespect for oneself, and for the entity that provides the welfare. As more folks in a poor neighborhood languish with little or no work, entire local culture begins to change: daily work is no longer the expected social norm. Extended periods of hanging around the neighborhood, neither working nor going to school becoming more and more socially acceptable.
   1. Since productive activity not making any economic sense because of the work disincentives of the welfare plantation, other kinds of activities proliferate: drug and alcohol abuse, crime, recreational sex, illegitimacy, and family breakup are the new social norms, as does the culture of violence.
   2. "The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."
      These searing words about Depression-era welfare are from Franklin Roosevelt's 1935 State of the Union Address.
   3. On Dec. 7, 2012, liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offered an unexpected concession:
      “This is painful for a liberal to admit, but … America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.”

Have you ever read a book????

 

[M14 Shooter]

The middle class pays the same percentage as the rich do and so does the fourth quintile even though poorest quintile pays 18%.

Another lie from a barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot

Google the only tax graph you need to know. All true.

^^^
The barely-functional hyper-partisan bigot knows he cannot support his assertion.

Google the only tax graph you need to know dumbass.

Thank you for confirming you know you cannot support you assertion, barely-functional hyperpartisan bigot.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Anything to avoid paying a living wageand investing in our infrastructure and people, which means taxing the rich their fair share.

Says the barely functional hyper-partisan bigot.

 

[otto105]

Total political war has been joined. On the floor of the United Sates House of Representatives on Thursday, the battle lines were drawn — and they could not be more clear or decisive. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “Every member should support allowing the American people to hear the facts for themselves. That is really what this vote is about. It is about the truth, and what is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy.”

Stirring stuff, but not to be outdone, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fired back, calling into question the origins of the Ukraine investigation that began with a whistleblower’s meeting with Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff.

Chiding the chairman, Jordan said, “One member of this body knows who this person is who started this whole darn, crazy process: Chairman Schiff. And what’s this resolution do? Gives him even more power to run this secret proceeding in a bunker in the basement of the Capitol.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

Reading through the resolution sounds exactly like a manifest from Soviet Russia....Schitt for brains has been given the power to approve witnesses, limit their testimony, and may or may NOT allow the president to have legal council in attendance for ALL proceedings...if the Republicans did this the ABNORMALS of the left and their slavish co conspirators in the MSM would go nuts!!!!!

purged

First, republic pols have been part of the closed door hearing (when they actually brother to show up).

Second, you can impeach a Russian Dictator? Since when...

 

[francoHFW]

You are totally brainwashed dear. Google the only tax graph you need to know. If you include all taxes everybody's paying about 27% including the richest, who are getting 99% of all the new wealth for years now.

By now, even you should realize that I am never wrong.

I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.



"Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

(Bloomberg) -- Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

If past statistics can offer any guidance, in 2016, $1.44 trillion income taxes were paid by 140.9 million taxpayers reporting a total of $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income, according to data recently released by the Internal Revenue Services.

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

· The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

· The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

· In other words, the bottom 50 percent paid 3 percent. Which small percentile of tax payers also paid 3 percent or more? You might have guessed it. It is the top 0.001%, or about 1,400 taxpayers. That group alone paid 3.25 percent of all income taxes. In 2001, the bottom 50 percent paid nearly 5 percent whereas the top 0.001 percent of filers paid 2.3 percent of income taxes."
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016

1. If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
   1. Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!
   2. “Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

yes you are baffled by b******* about federal income taxes, our only progressive tags, and which is getting to be smaller and smaller as percentage of the overall tax bite.
and that's dear is why we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and people. So we are losing the competition. No matter how many $7 jobs there are....

How could I be the one who is baffled, when I just taught you a lesson?


Not only don't the bottom 50% pay taxes, but Republicans have seen to it that the working poor get a tax benefit....

1. The EITC has a sterling Republican heritage. It was first instituted in the 1920s by a Republican Congress at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Repealed in 1943, Republican President Gerald Ford revived it in 1975.
   1. EITC supporters argued that because the credit would be available only to those with earned income, it would reinforce work incentives and help get people off welfare. By making the credit refundable, it would offset the disincentive effects of higher payroll tax rates, which had risen from 4.8 percent on workers and employers in 1970 to 5.85 percent in 1975.
2. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported a big increase in the EITC rate from 10 percent to 14 percent. In 1990, George H.W. Bush supported a further increase.
3. Despite the exploding cost of the EITC, Republicans in Congress created another tax credit in the 1997 tax bill. The child credit was intended to make it easier for mothers to stay at home and raise their children, rather than work outside the home. Republicans and the Earned Income Tax Credit

4. “…the earned income tax credit ("EITC") that was enacted by Gerald Ford and then re-enacted and expanded in 1986 by... could it be, don't tell me, say it ain't so!... Ronald Reagan.” Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit | HuffPost

5. “…a child care tax deduction included in the immense Internal Revenue Code of 1954…” http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17275&area=All

6. The origins of the EITC, which has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower-income people, can be found in Ronald Reagans famous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in 1972, where he proposed exempting the working poor from all Social Security and income taxes as an alternative to welfare. It was that testimony that led Congress to adopt the credit in 1975. As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets. In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for ”folks who make less” all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody, but a higher percentage of income of lower-income workers.

Gingrich’s Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced tax liabilities of lower-income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people. And Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income tax still get full credit. And Bush adopted a lower tax bracket of 10%, a reduction of 33% (compared to the 11.6% drop for highest income workers.)

Thus, by 2007, the bottom 40% paid no income tax.
Ferrara, “ America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” p. 220.




See....yet another lesson you should thank me for.

Anything to avoid paying a living wageand investing in our infrastructure and people, which means taxing the rich their fair share. And of course you save all that money with people who don't complete the forms...

Sit down....this will come as a shock: The Republicans pried the slaves away from the Democrats.....it was called the Civil War, it was in all the papers..


....this means that no one has to work at a job with which they are not satisfied.

Pay is offered, and it is voluntary at that point.

True story.

The Republican party has nothing to do with today's garbage propaganda racist GOP. Today it would be the liberal Democrats who would free the oppressed, and the GOP doing the oppressing. I know a tax cut for the rich LOL.

 

[PoliticalChic]

By now, even you should realize that I am never wrong.

I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.



"Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

(Bloomberg) -- Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

If past statistics can offer any guidance, in 2016, $1.44 trillion income taxes were paid by 140.9 million taxpayers reporting a total of $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income, according to data recently released by the Internal Revenue Services.

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

· The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

· The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

· In other words, the bottom 50 percent paid 3 percent. Which small percentile of tax payers also paid 3 percent or more? You might have guessed it. It is the top 0.001%, or about 1,400 taxpayers. That group alone paid 3.25 percent of all income taxes. In 2001, the bottom 50 percent paid nearly 5 percent whereas the top 0.001 percent of filers paid 2.3 percent of income taxes."
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016

1. If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
   1. Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!
   2. “Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

yes you are baffled by b******* about federal income taxes, our only progressive tags, and which is getting to be smaller and smaller as percentage of the overall tax bite.
and that's dear is why we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and people. So we are losing the competition. No matter how many $7 jobs there are....

How could I be the one who is baffled, when I just taught you a lesson?


Not only don't the bottom 50% pay taxes, but Republicans have seen to it that the working poor get a tax benefit....

1. The EITC has a sterling Republican heritage. It was first instituted in the 1920s by a Republican Congress at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Repealed in 1943, Republican President Gerald Ford revived it in 1975.
   1. EITC supporters argued that because the credit would be available only to those with earned income, it would reinforce work incentives and help get people off welfare. By making the credit refundable, it would offset the disincentive effects of higher payroll tax rates, which had risen from 4.8 percent on workers and employers in 1970 to 5.85 percent in 1975.
2. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported a big increase in the EITC rate from 10 percent to 14 percent. In 1990, George H.W. Bush supported a further increase.
3. Despite the exploding cost of the EITC, Republicans in Congress created another tax credit in the 1997 tax bill. The child credit was intended to make it easier for mothers to stay at home and raise their children, rather than work outside the home. Republicans and the Earned Income Tax Credit

4. “…the earned income tax credit ("EITC") that was enacted by Gerald Ford and then re-enacted and expanded in 1986 by... could it be, don't tell me, say it ain't so!... Ronald Reagan.” Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit | HuffPost

5. “…a child care tax deduction included in the immense Internal Revenue Code of 1954…” http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17275&area=All

6. The origins of the EITC, which has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower-income people, can be found in Ronald Reagans famous testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in 1972, where he proposed exempting the working poor from all Social Security and income taxes as an alternative to welfare. It was that testimony that led Congress to adopt the credit in 1975. As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets. In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for ”folks who make less” all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody, but a higher percentage of income of lower-income workers.

Gingrich’s Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced tax liabilities of lower-income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people. And Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income tax still get full credit. And Bush adopted a lower tax bracket of 10%, a reduction of 33% (compared to the 11.6% drop for highest income workers.)

Thus, by 2007, the bottom 40% paid no income tax.
Ferrara, “ America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” p. 220.




See....yet another lesson you should thank me for.

Anything to avoid paying a living wageand investing in our infrastructure and people, which means taxing the rich their fair share. And of course you save all that money with people who don't complete the forms...

Sit down....this will come as a shock: The Republicans pried the slaves away from the Democrats.....it was called the Civil War, it was in all the papers..


....this means that no one has to work at a job with which they are not satisfied.

Pay is offered, and it is voluntary at that point.

True story.

The Republican party has nothing to do with today's garbage propaganda racist GOP of today. Today would be the liberal Democrats who would free the oppressed, and the GOP doing the oppressing. I know a tax cut for the rich LOL.

"...today's garbage propaganda racist GOP of today."

Let's review:

1. The Democrats are, and have always been, the party of slavery, segregation, and second-class citizenship, the party that stood in schoolhouse doors to block black school children….until Republicans sent in the 101st airborne

2. It is the party of Jefferson Davis, the KKK, Planned Parenthood, concentration camps for American citizens, and restrictions on free speech.

3. It is the party of Mao ornaments on the White House Christmas tree, and of James Hodgkinson, and of Communist Bernie Sanders, of pretend genders.

4. The Democrat Party is the oldest racist organization in America, the trail of tears, the author of Jim Crow and the bigotry of low expectations, filibustered against women getting the vote and killed every anti-lynching bill to get to Congress

5. The Democrat Party is the number one funder of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran….to the tune of $100 billion to the Ayatollahs….and gave Hezbollah the go-ahead to sell cocaine in America.

6. It is the party of anti-Semitism and Louis Farrakhan, and of the first Cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of Congress.

7. It is the party that admits its future depends on flooding the country with illegal aliens, and telling them to vote.

8. It is the party that couldn't suck up to the Castro Brothers enough, and treats the Bill of Rights like a Chinese menu..

9. The Democrats got us into the Civil War…Jefferson Davis .... Woodrow Wilson, WWI….FDR, WWII……Truman, Korean War….VietNam, JFK and LBJ…..yet they want to weaken our military.
10. The Democrats are the party that looks at the mayhem their gun laws have produced in Chicago, ……and this is their model for the nation.

11. I should mention that the Democrat Party was used as a model by Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party….another ‘feather’ in the party’s cap?

12. The Democrat Party is now running on full-blown anti-white racism.

13. It's the party of felons over law-abiding actual citizens


And nothing has changed for the Democrats.



In fact.....this pretty much applies to them:


"It is a great irony of communism that those who did not believe in God believed that godlike knowledge could be concentrated at a central point. It was believed that government could be omnipotent and omniscient. And in order to justify the idea that all lives should be determined by a single plan, the concomitant tendency of communist regimes was to deify the leader- whether Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or Kim Il-sung."
Tom Bethell, "The Noblest Triumph," p. 144




Sooo....you've never read a book.