In article <kpha77$cbh$
1...@dont-email.me>,
The Dippy Dumbass<
the-dipp...@stinky-hand.net> wrote:
> On 5/21/2013 9:50 PM, benji aka "Wanna Toke?" wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 May 2013 20:05:05 -0400, Kickin' Ass and Taking Names
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:29 -0500, "GOP of today: Monkeys in a cage
> >> throwing shit !" <
p...@gop.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> REPUBLICANS !!!!
> >>>
> >>> TAX PAYERS !!!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hahahahahahahahaha
> >
> >> Wrong. Republicans don't pay taxes.
It's not really so much paying the taxes, as it is priming the pump for
this entitlement group.
> >>
> >> It's we Democrats who will get stuck with the bill.
Actually, we pay more, and get less and less.
> >
> > According to the IRS, those making more than $380,354 (top 1% of
> > taxpayers) paid 38% of the taxes. I presume these are all republicans.
> >
> > If you drop that down to $159,619 (Top 5%) so as to include all
> > Republicans plus all millionaire elected Democrats, you find that the
> > group paid a majority of all taxes: 58.72%
> >
> >
http://www.davemanuel.com/2010/11/04/what-percentage-of-federal-income-
> > taxes-do-rich-people-really-pay/
> >
> > We all know that Democrats may pay taxes but that's only giving back a
> > tiny bit of what the government gave them to live either as a gift or by
> > having a government "job" where they do "work" and I use that term very
> > loosely!
> >
>
> Isn't it funny that many of the Liberal Democrat actors, rappers and
> entertainers who are spouting P.L.L.C.F. rhetoric wind up in trouble
> with The IRS over NOT paying taxes? Those folks rake in millions of
> dollars but that doesn't matter because they're Commiecrats. ^_^
>
> TDD
Dippy will point you at anyone, except for the true culprits of our
financial problems (The 1%).
First let me direct you to Dippy's aka Dufas's tx.guns post of Wed, 26
Jun 2013
Re: Hey Billy, This is YOUR wife and Daughter making sure an
African-American
It will tell you all you need to know about this scum bag, TDD.
Like a true L-C-D D.S.R.R.R.R.F.G, this lying sycophants of the
"Guardians of Privilege" deletes, and twists the truth to please his
masters.
The hyper-reactionary, racist right's toxic brew of anti-rationalism and
ignorance hurts discussions of U.S. public policy on topics of education
to the background checks on gun buyers, that 90% of Americans desire.
There is no quick cure for this epidemic of arrogant anti-rationalism
and anti-intellectualism; rote efforts to raise standardized test scores
by stuffing students with specific answers to specific questions on
specific tests will not do the job (No Child's Behind Left).
During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s—a scandal
whose dimensions, by today’s standards, seem almost quaint—the banker
Charles Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5
million he had spread among a few key elected officials could actually
buy influence. “I certainly hope so,” he replied. The Supreme Court, in
its recent Citizens United case, has enshrined the right of corporations
to buy government, by removing limitations on campaign spending. The
personal and the political are today in perfect alignment. Virtually all
U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members
of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from
the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well
they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office.
The top 5 percent had more wealth than the remaining 95 percent of the
population, collectively.
The top 20 percent owns over 80 percent of all wealth. In 1998, it owned
83 percent of all wealth.
“A look at the data on tax distribution in the United States, for
instance, reveals that high income individuals pay an enormously
disproportionate amount of total income taxes in the country. The Tax
Foundation’s Fiscal Facts report shows that the top 1% of income earners
(1,410,710 people) pay 40.42% of all income taxes in the United States.
The top 2.5% (5,642,839 people) pay 20.20% of total income taxes, while
the top 5% (a combined 7,053,549 people) pay 60%. The top 10% as a whole
pays 71.22%, while the bottom 50% of taxpayers account for only 2.89% of
all income taxes.”
Why do the rich pay most of the taxes? Because they own most of the
wealth.
Even at that, they are taxed at a lower rate that normal people. Almost
two-thirds of American companies didn't pay corporate income tax
annually from 1998 to 2005.
Big No-Tax Corps Just Keep on Dodging
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http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2012/04/big_no-tax_corps_just_keep_on_dodging.
php>
83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the
people. These hard working investors pay 15% (or less) on their income,
like Gov. Romney.
The rest of us pay 30% on our sweat, and time.
And it all comes back to lobbying. For example in California, the
critical factor over the last 30 years has been the political influence
of the California business community, which has pressured the
Legislature to approve numerous corporate tax credits and make other
changes to help business. Unlike corporations, taxpayers as a group
aren’t particularly well organized. While corporations are constantly
pressing for tax breaks, few groups are doing the same for individual
taxpayers. “Inside the Capital, the system is stacked against the
average taxpayer,” said Chuck DeVore, a former Republican assemblyman
and candidate for the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
This explains why the ratio of the wage income of the top one percent of
earners to that of the bottom 90 percent more than doubled between 1979
and 2006, increasing from a ratio of 9.4:1 to 19.9:1. In contrast there
was relatively little change in the earnings disparity from 1947 to
1979, when wages at all levels of the economy grew apace.
And then Reagan happened.
America gave $9 trillion in cash and loan guarantees to investment
banks. What does America want to do with the poor? Cut $20 billion in
food stamps assistance.
<
http://billmoyers.com/segment/kristi-jacobson-and-mariana-chilton-on-how
-hunger-hurts-everyone/>
The number of Americans living in poverty rose to 46.2 million in 2010,
nearly one in six people, according to the US Census Bureau's annual
report. This in the richest country in the world.
The 2010 data shows the poverty rate at 15.1%, from 14.3% in 2009. The
number of Americans without health insurance also rose slightly to 49.9
million.
The poverty rate was the highest since 1983, and tied with the level in
1993.
The number of Americans living below the poverty line has now risen for
four years in a row.
America is not broke.
Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll
give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your
great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The
country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your
hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from
the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the
uber-rich.
Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans
combined. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way
from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have more
loot, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans
combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup
d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your
heart to be true.
And I can see why. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men
abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy,
would mean that we'd have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that
we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the moneyed elite.
Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic -- and,
until this past month, the rest of us have felt completely helpless,
unable to find a way to do anything about it.
We need to get rid of private funding in politics. As long as
politicians get their campaign money from the rich, they will do the
rich man's work. With public funding they would do the publics work.