First order of Republican House business tomorrow is…..

[Billo_Really]

why do we have to raise it?

ans we do tax dividends

Because it's current tax rate is 15%. That needs to increase to 25%. And no, we do not tax stock dividends.

 

[Blaster]

Cut-off funding for the additional IRS agents.

 

[Lisa558]

We need to increase the tax on capital gains to 25% and start taxing dividends.

What about start taxing the half of all Americans who don’t pitch in a PENNY in income taxes? Any adult over 18 with income over $5,000 a year (which includes part-timers still living with Mommy) and up to the age of 65, should pay a minimum of 2% of the earnings toward the government.

Far too many people are takers only.

 

[Lisa558]

Because it's current tax rate is 15%. That needs to increase to 25%. And no, we do not tax stock dividends.

Yes, we do…..the IRS considers stock dividends income.

 

[rightwinger]

Please make my day... I could use a good laugh... what was the Agenda of the Democrats?

Glad you asked…
COVID protection
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Environmental Protection
Education


All successful

 

[rightwinger]

What about start taxing the half of all Americans who don’t pitch in a PENNY in income taxes? Any adult over 18 with income over $5,000 a year (which includes part-timers still living with Mommy) and up to the age of 65, should pay a minimum of 2% of the earnings toward the government.

Far too many people are takers only.

Why tax people who are struggling to support their family?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Glad you asked…
COVID protection
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Environmental Protection
Education


All successful

 

[rightwinger]

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I guess that is the best you got

Dems passed their agenda…..let’s see how Republicans do
Good luck

 

[Lisa558]

Why tax people who are struggling to support their family?

Who says they’re all struggling? I know someone on food stamps who shops at Whole Foods. The tax-free $800 allotment for food, plus the TANF for her kids, plus the Medicaid provided by others, plus the “earned tax credit” (what a joke), plus the fact she lives with her mother rent-free, makes her hardly struggling. She goes to bars and restaurants a couple of times a week.

Why should people like that be solely on the taking side without pitching in at all?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I guess that is the best you got

Dems passed their agenda…..let’s see how Republicans do
Good luck

 

[rightwinger]

Who says they’re all struggling? I know someone on food stamps who shops at Whole Foods. The tax-free $800 allotment for food, plus the TANF for her kids, plus the Medicaid provided by others, plus the “earned tax credit” (what a joke), plus the fact she lives with her mother rent-free, makes her hardly struggling. She goes to bars and restaurants a couple of times a week.

Why should people like that be solely on the taking side without pitching in at all?

Is Trump struggling?

Why does he pay so little income tax?

 

[Lisa558]

Is Trump struggling?

Why does he pay so little income tax?

Deflection.

Why do so many people living off of government charity programs, and living comfortably, not pay in a red cent?

 

[Orangecat]

you are a rightwing libertarian and I’m a left wing liberal. Neither is a derogatory label.

The latter is, to rational adults.

 

[Orangecat]

Is Trump struggling?
Why does he pay so little income tax?

Do you know the difference between income and wealth?

 

[Billo_Really]

What about start taxing the half of all Americans who don’t pitch in a PENNY in income taxes? Any adult over 18 with income over $5,000 a year (which includes part-timers still living with Mommy) and up to the age of 65, should pay a minimum of 2% of the earnings toward the government.

Far too many people are takers only.

No. People making under $20k a year should not have to pay anything. They have it hard enough. The rich, on the otherhand, pay far less than their fair share. And that needs to stop.

 

[Billo_Really]

Yes, we do…..the IRS considers stock dividends income.

But it is not taxed.

 

[Lisa558]

But it is not taxed.

You better double check. Dividends are indeed taxed.

 

[rightwinger]

Do you know the difference between income and wealth?

Absolutely
Do you understand the working poor have little of either?

Why do you want to tax them?

 

[rightwinger]

Deflection.

Why do so many people living off of government charity programs, and living comfortably, not pay in a red cent?

More Conservative propaganda about how well off the working poor are

 

[Billo_Really]

You better double check. Dividends are indeed taxed.

Okay, you are correct. I was wrong! Ordinary dividends is taxed as ordinary income. However, qualified dividends are taxed lower than capital gains and that just won't do. I don't want anyone paying less tax rate than me.