Why the "Death Tax" Should be Abandoned

[Nickdfresh]

I said income taxes. What you listed aren't income taxes.

Payroll would be "income," brainiac...

[BigBadBrian]

Payroll would be "income," brainiac...

No, they are not the same.

Payroll taxes are the SS and Medicare taxes that comes out of everyone's check and are also taxes an employer pays for an employee (besides the afore mentioned employee payroll taxes).

Income tax is separate and is the withholding and/or payments that must be reconciled with the Federal Government as to the correct amount every year (in the form of a payment or refund).

I'm glad I was able to school you on that.

[Nickdfresh]

No, they are not the same.

Payroll taxes are the SS and Medicare taxes that comes out of everyone's check and are also taxes an employer pays for an employee (besides the afore mentioned employee payroll taxes).

Income tax is separate and is the withholding and/or payments that must be reconciled with the Federal Government as to the correct amount every year (in the form of a payment or refund).

I'm glad I was able to school you on that.

Um, payroll taxes are still paid within proportion of income, They're still taxes, and few people working pay no taxes at all...

[BigBadBrian]

Um, payroll taxes are still paid within proportion of income, They're still taxes, and few people working pay no taxes at all...

18% in fact of people of working age. About 50% though, pay no income tax.

[Nickdfresh]

18% in fact of people of working age. About 50% though, pay no income tax.

No, about 54% pay 'income' taxes, another 28% pay payroll taxes. Only seven percent pay no tax as they earn less than $20K, the rest are elderly... (Washington Post)

[BigBadBrian]

No, about 54% pay 'income' taxes, another 28% pay payroll taxes. Only seven percent pay no tax as they earn less than $20K, the rest are elderly... (Washington Post)

Incorrect.

[Nickdfresh]

Incorrect.

Yes, you are frequently...

[motherchicken]

I see no reason the government should be entitled to a percentage of someones inheritance.

[FORD]

Do you see a reason why Jenna Bush should be living off the money that her great grandfather made from concentration camp slave labor?

[motherchicken]

Do you see a reason why Jenna Bush should be living off the money that her great grandfather made from concentration camp slave labor?

What about people who earned their money and want their children to have it? Not that I believe your BCE propaganda.

[motherchicken]

Do you see a reason why Jenna Bush should be living off the money that her great grandfather made from concentration camp slave labor?

Prescott Bush was accused and cleared of shady financial dealings with Germans in WWII. So what? The Kennedy's are just as bad. Everybody knows Joe got rich bootlegging during the prohibition. I'm sure he had plenty blood on his hands.

[FORD]

Earned their money?

So you consider financing Adolf Hitler and profiting from enslaving and killing Jews to be legitimate income?

Or selling heroin and funding terrorists like Poppy did?

[FORD]

Prescott Bush was accused and cleared of shady financial dealings with Germans in WWII. So what? The Kennedy's are just as bad. Everybody knows Joe got rich bootlegging during the prohibition. I'm sure he had plenty blood on his hands.

And the Kennedys never bitched about paying their taxes either.

Seriously though, you think bootlegging is equivalent to the Holocaust?

[motherchicken]

And the Kennedys never bitched about paying their taxes either.

Right. They threw massive parties celebrating getting to pay taxes. And they never cheat on them either.

[motherchicken]

Earned their money?

So you consider financing Adolf Hitler and profiting from enslaving and killing Jews to be legitimate income?

How you exaggerate the facts. Bush might have made some cash dealing with the Nazis but that's far from bankrolling Hitler.