[quote=gandalf]No, no. The wealthy of this generation are shirking, not paying their fair share. That’s absolutely true. Not advocating socialism or wealth redistribution.
Think. What constitutes income? Everybody knows get a good accountant and you’ll pay less than in taxes than the average sucker from the middle class.
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The bottom 50% of wage earner pay only 3% of the federal income taxes. The middle class, lower class doesn’t pay any tax other then SS.
The top 1% of wage earners. I think that is above $200k or so pay 40% of the taxes.
That is the problem with our system now. Not enough people share in the cost of government. Since half the people don’t pay tax why should they care what the government spends? What happens is we have a system ran by the special interests and Government has become its own special interest.
