zer0netgain wrote:
Might be bad form to refer to such people as "lucky ducks," but the point is valid. About 51% of the population does not pay any federal income tax due to income level and other factors (such as the Earned Income Credit which can negate a tax liability otherwise owed).
Lies. That number was 47% last year. It has never once been over 50%. The peak level was 49% under George W Bush.
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Now, if you don't pay any federal income tax, how demanding should you be for more and more government programs? Do you not realize that since YOU are not paying for it, and about 51% of everyone else is not paying for it, how fair is it to demand more knowing the remaining 49% ARE paying for it?
They still pay taxes. They still pay sales taxes and social security withholding, both of which are regressive taxes. And this is an idiotic, asinine assessment of the situation anyways. Obviously people who are benefited by social welfare programs are not paying for those programs. The whole point of those programs is that these people are not in a position where they can get by on their own.
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We are in an interesting place as a nation. Everyone has a "right" to vote, but now more than half of all potential voters do not pay into the system but will respond to promises to get stuff back from the system.
And here we get into part of the motivation for your lying distortion of the numbers. More demonization of the poor. This is probably why you think arguments for progressive taxation are motivated by "class warfare" or "resentment." You're projecting.
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(hence why the USA is a republic and not a democracy).
Those two terms are not mutually exclusive. We are both a republic and a democracy. Learn real political theory rather than BS right-wing talking points.
31 Aug 2011, 3:11 pm
