Most Americans say the rich don't pay enough taxes

[FORD]

Why are you he'll bent on taking money from people ??

Funny how you never ask that question of the BCE, or BAIN Capital, or the Wall Street felons, or the criminal health care industry that you yourself admit is CORRUPT, or anyone else who has robbed you blind for the last 32 years.

[ELVIS]

Hell even...

Fucking iPhone...

[ELVIS]

A government can't take care of people, FORD...

[ELVIS]

And no one has robbed me blind...

[FORD]

And no one has robbed me blind...

By your own admission, you were a fucking NURSE whose employer didn't provide health care.

That's Stevie Wonder level blindness right there alone.

[Nickdfresh]

You're the one with the brainpower deficiancy. 10%=10%, 20%=20% and so on. I have already expained this in terms a 5th grader would understand.

Please stay away from 5th graders. They're smarter than you, though...

I guess you're not smarter (or as smart as) a 5th grader. I think the problem here is terminology. Let me research.

I think the problem here is that you are an uneducated fucktard with the inability to figure out anything but how to pop Viagra for a nice sock...

[Nickdfresh]

[QUOTE=baru911;1689512]Noting that the CBO reported that wealthy Americans earn about 50 percent of all income but pay nearly 70 percent of the federal tax burden how in the world could anyone expect them to pay more? The CBO looked at 2007 through 2009 taxes and found the bottom 20 percent of American earners paid just three-tenths of a percent of the total tax burden, while the richest 20 percent paid 67.9 percent of taxes....['/quote]

What is your definition of "wealthy." The pay 70%? They OWN 85%!

[motherchicken]

I think the problem here is that you are an uneducated fucktard with the inability to figure out anything but how to pop Viagra for a nice sock...

And you're the genious who makes assinine statement like "the same percentage isn't really the same percentage". Come right out and say what you really fucking mean. You and other people like you think the more money you make the higher percentage you should have to pay in taxes. Why? Simply because you have it. Your tune would damn sure change if it was your money. What is that? Some twisted Robin Hood theory? Take from the rich and give to the government for them to waste. You're an idiot. An envious idiot.

[Blaze]

Noting that the CBO reported that wealthy Americans earn about 50 percent of all income but pay nearly 70 percent of the federal tax burden how in the world could anyone expect them to pay more? The CBO looked at 2007 through 2009 taxes and found the bottom 20 percent of American earners paid just three-tenths of a percent of the total tax burden, while the richest 20 percent paid 67.9 percent of taxes.

Look I'm all about helping other but its time for all Americans to step up to the plate. Stating that "rich people" need to pay more is striking as they currently pay almost 70% of the taxes. What % seems fair to you liberal/progressive nuts? 80%, 90%...100%? Fuck that. People riding on others coat tails needs to stop. Why? The CBO reported this during the same study on income and taxes...On average, the lowest 40 percent of earners actually get money back through the income-tax code because of refundable tax credits. How the fuck do you get money back when you aren't paying in? It should be a net sum of zero if you aren't paying in then you should be getting anything back.

I'd be more than happy to move into a flat sales tax and scrapping the current tax code.

I'd like to audit that information please.

[motherchicken]

Just imagine a world where someone like Paris Hilton or Chimpy Bush didn't get to coast by in a life of priveledge because of what their grandfather did.

Jealous of those rich people that got all their money from their parents or grandparents or even great grandparents because you didn't get any? Dig em up and kick the shit out of their remains. It's their fault you aren't rich and famous like Paris and Chimpy.

[baru911]

[QUOTE=Nickdfresh;1689639]

Noting that the CBO reported that wealthy Americans earn about 50 percent of all income but pay nearly 70 percent of the federal tax burden how in the world could anyone expect them to pay more? The CBO looked at 2007 through 2009 taxes and found the bottom 20 percent of American earners paid just three-tenths of a percent of the total tax burden, while the richest 20 percent paid 67.9 percent of taxes....['/quote]

What is your definition of "wealthy." The pay 70%? They OWN 85%!

Who care who owns what? I'm supposed to feel bad because either I or someone in my family worked hard enough to get into the position of owning something or creating something that allowed me and/or my family to become rich? Should I hate on Bill Gates because he was smart enough to come up with an operating system that made IBM's new computer work and he was smart enough not to sell it to them but license it? How about Warren Buffett? Should I hate on him because he studied stocks and companies and was smart enough to find winners in the stock market and build Berkshire Hathaway? How about George Soros? How about the Koch brothers? No wait, I should hate on Sam Walton or his children for Wal-Mart. Sure.

Take a look at the top 10 richest Americans. That ain't old money. That's people earning it.

According to Forbes 9-21-11 list
1) Bill Gates
2) Warren Buffett
3) Larry Ellison
4) Charles Koch
5) David Koch
6) Christy Walton
7) George Soros
8) Sheldon Adelson
9) Jim Walton
10) Alice Walton

[baru911]

I'd like to audit that information please.

Since you are liberal and have grown up in a world in which you expect others to do your work I guess it was too hard for you to type into a search engine "CBO 2009 Tax Report". I understand the world in which you live simple needs to serve you as you can't think nor take care of yourself. Thus, as a self-reliant evil capitalist who worked hard to build something in his life I'll have to provide you with a link to the study as I provide everything else in our ever increasing "You owe me something even though I never worked for it society".

Link:

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43373-06-11-HouseholdIncomeandFedTaxes.pdf

Read page 3 heading Distribution of Federal Taxes Across Income Scale, second paragraph...."In 2009, households in the highest quintile received 50.8 percent of before-tax income and paid 67.9 percent of federal taxes; households in the top 1 percent received 13.4 percent of income and paid 22.3 percent of taxes (see Figure 2 on page 9)."

Same page, same paragraph...."Households in the bottom quintile received 5.1 percent of income and paid 0.3 percent of taxes,...."

Sure, both the CBO and I are making this up.

[Nickdfresh]

Since you are liberal and have grown up in a world in which you expect others to do your work I guess it was too hard for you to type into a search engine "CBO 2009 Tax Report".

Do my work? No, I just expect you not to be a lazy, incompetent and to post your own links, dick...

I understand the world in which you live simple needs to serve you as you can't think nor take care of yourself. Thus, as a self-reliant evil capitalist who worked hard to build something in his life I'll have to provide you with a link to the study as I provide everything else in our ever increasing "You owe me something even though I never worked for it society".

Thanks asshole whose claimed previous career was based on gov't handout contracts and war-profiteering...you know, gov't make-work programs paid for by federal taxes that increase the deficit?

Link:

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43373-06-11-HouseholdIncomeandFedTaxes.pdf

Read page 3 heading Distribution of Federal Taxes Across Income Scale, second paragraph...."In 2009, households in the highest quintile received 50.8 percent of before-tax income and paid 67.9 percent of federal taxes; households in the top 1 percent received 13.4 percent of income and paid 22.3 percent of taxes (see Figure 2 on page 9)."

Same page, same paragraph...."Households in the bottom quintile received 5.1 percent of income and paid 0.3 percent of taxes,...."

Sure, both the CBO and I are making this up.

And the top 20% still owns 85% of all the wealth, which is gravitating upwards...

[Nickdfresh]

And you're the genious who makes assinine statement like "the same percentage isn't really the same percentage". Come right out and say what you really fucking mean. You and other people like you think the more money you make the higher percentage you should have to pay in taxes. Why? Simply because you have it. Your tune would damn sure change if it was your money. What is that? Some twisted Robin Hood theory? Take from the rich and give to the government for them to waste. You're an idiot. An envious idiot.

Um, aren't you the unemployable asshole that gets more back in tax refunds than he pays?

[ELVIS]

So the government should confiscate the "wealth" and give some to you ??