sethnintendo said:
Marks said:
Why do people obsess over what the rich are making? The top 1% of earners pays something like 40% of all taxes, and there are like ~50% of people who don't pay taxes at all in America...so quit your whining.
I'm not saying the thread creator is whining, but whoever keeps making these articles and getting upset about being poor. If you want equality go to Scandinavia. |
They may pay 40% of the tax but they also control at least 42 percent of the wealth (top 1%). Seems fair enough to me and the Bush tax cuts were not needed for "job creation". Basically, the Bush tax cuts didn't do shit but allow the rich to become richer. Pretty hard to create jobs when most of those "job creators" are actually just sitting on their wealth or they are investing it into stocks of large corps which don't really give a fuck about creating jobs in the USA. I didn't really try to look up too much data but I believe the lower percentages should care considering all the tax loopholes and bs that goes along with the USA tax code. Basically, get rid of the IRS and go to a national sales tax if you want to be "fair" and have taxes based on consumption. Everything else is just pure fucking bullshit.
http://www.mybudget360.com/top-1-percent-control-42-percent-of-financial-wealth-in-the-us-how-average-americans-are-lured-into-debt-servitude-by-promises-of-mega-wealth/
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Yeah I get that, people are mad about wealth being unequal and that's fine. I just don't get why people think they should get a free ride through life on other people's hard earned tax dollars. I know not everyone has a fair shake in life, but that just means you need to work harder to get where you need to be. I think all the social programs we have just make people lazy and expect handouts. I don't know when things like welfare went from emergency assistance to people going through a tough time...to what it is now where everyone expects handouts.
And the other thing I want to say is bringing the rich down through overtaxation isn't going to make things better for the poor. Yeah it'll be more equal but things wouldn't be better.
