jpn of Seattle
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Your argument is that taxation is not logical or rational?
Wow. That argument sounds pretty illogical and irrational to me...
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Your argument is that taxation is not logical or rational?
Wow. That argument sounds pretty illogical and irrational to me...
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Humiliated by your ad nauseum fallacies? Hardly. No one has disproven any of the core points of that argument. Dream on.
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No. My argument is that taxation is theft.
You need to get your Cognitive Dissonance under control. Until you do, you'll never be able to perceive the truth.
Which is quite meaningless WITHOUT A FIRM GRASP OF JURISPRUDENCE - ANY THEORY ON JURISPRUDENCE.
Now, run along with your teenage friends and snort whatever it is you are snorting someplace else. And take your meaningless rhetoric with you because, quite frankly, it cannot withstand any rigorous scrutiny.
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Not as defined within American democratic society, it isn't.
Perhaps as defined within your far-right Liberatarian sandbox.
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Oh, by the way, getting back to the original subject of this thread...
It's true that the rich pay the most taxes. The most federal income taxes, anyway. Here's why:
The affluent are paying more of the taxes because they’re making so much more money.
Tax cut advocates like to argue that taxes on the affluent have entered the realm of Robin Hood. This year, Ari Fleischer, Mr. Bush’s former press secretary, wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal suggesting that a small slice of taxpayers was being asked to foot almost the entire bill for the federal government. “The problem is that there is a tipping point after which piling taxes onto the rich will leave the government unable to meet its obligations,” Mr. Fleischer wrote.
Reading that, you would probably assume that the tax rates on high-income families have soared over the last generation. But they haven’t.
A family in that top 1 percent of earners paid a total federal tax rate — including everything from payroll taxes to income taxes to capital gains taxes — of 30 percent in 2004. That was down from 41 percent a decade before. Since the 1950s, tax rates on high-income families have generally been falling.
The top earners pay a bigger share of the government tab than in the past because their incomes have risen so sharply — even more sharply than their tax bills. (Mr. Fleischer was able to claim the opposite by looking only at income taxes.)
The affluent, in short, are paying less in taxes on every dollar they earn but earning many more dollars. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/business/31leonhardt.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
It's true that the rich pay the most taxes. The most federal income taxes, anyway. Here's why:
The affluent are paying more of the taxes because they’re making so much more money.
Tax cut advocates like to argue that taxes on the affluent have entered the realm of Robin Hood. This year, Ari Fleischer, Mr. Bush’s former press secretary, wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal suggesting that a small slice of taxpayers was being asked to foot almost the entire bill for the federal government. “The problem is that there is a tipping point after which piling taxes onto the rich will leave the government unable to meet its obligations,” Mr. Fleischer wrote.
Reading that, you would probably assume that the tax rates on high-income families have soared over the last generation. But they haven’t.
A family in that top 1 percent of earners paid a total federal tax rate — including everything from payroll taxes to income taxes to capital gains taxes — of 30 percent in 2004. That was down from 41 percent a decade before. Since the 1950s, tax rates on high-income families have generally been falling.
The top earners pay a bigger share of the government tab than in the past because their incomes have risen so sharply — even more sharply than their tax bills. (Mr. Fleischer was able to claim the opposite by looking only at income taxes.)
The affluent, in short, are paying less in taxes on every dollar they earn but earning many more dollars. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/business/31leonhardt.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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