Someone who makes $25,000 pays $2,500 in taxes.
Someone who makes $1,000,000 pays $370,000 in taxes. Almost 150 times as much, yet some of you still want them to pay more?! WTH would make anyone think that?!

because they have more

because the people need shoes

because jesus said

is a well for the man who dug it

is a well for the man who owns it

is a well for the man who can take it

the man who digs it gets a paycheck

the man who owns it gets a dividend

the man who can take it better not

this ain no shitheel country

Posted by all3 on 12/2/2020 7:17:00 PM (view original):
Someone who makes $25,000 pays $2,500 in taxes.
Someone who makes $1,000,000 pays $370,000 in taxes. Almost 150 times as much, yet some of you still want them to pay more?! WTH would make anyone think that?!

Someone making 1 million is not necessarily paying 370 total taxes. They do have lots of good deductions like property tax and mortgage and healthcare to name a few not to mention tax shelter investments.

you worry too much about the breaks the poor get and not why they get them.

Posted by all3 on 12/2/2020 7:17:00 PM (view original):
Someone who makes $25,000 pays $2,500 in taxes.
Someone who makes $1,000,000 pays $370,000 in taxes. Almost 150 times as much, yet some of you still want them to pay more?! WTH would make anyone think that?!

The difference between $2,500 and $9,250 would probably leave a larger impact on that person's standard of living than the difference between $370,000, and $100,000

The "breaks" you folks are referring too, are codified Congressionally passed measures, specifically encoded within our Tax Law to encourage (or discourage) certain behaviors. You can argue all you want about How those "breaks" work out nationally, BUT the "deductions" within the Tax Code were specifically placed there by YOUR Representatives in Congress.

Who they end up benefiting is the issue. Do they benefit ALL us citizens or just a FEW wealthy folks with the right types of deductions??
Just judging from appearances (using my OWN 2 eyes) I'd say the Tax Law is working real well for those who it was designed to benefit.
Take a LOOK around your town's neighborhood. Who do YOU think the Tax Code is benefiting??

Those with multi home ownership and layered investments, and several businesses and shell companies??

OR the homeless, and the Protestors, and the looters, the rioters, and the rest of the Nation who has too little.

Posted by bagchucker on 12/2/2020 8:02:00 PM (view original):
because they have more

because the people need shoes

because jesus said

A person with $30,000 has more than a person with $25,000 too. How much should he give to his "poorer" friend?

Anyone who needs shoes is perfectly free to go out and work to get them. I can't go anywhere without seeing "Help Wanted" signs everywhere, but why would anyone want to work when they can get things handed to them?

Jesus asks for 10%, not 37%. Or 90%, as a few people on here have suggested in the past.

Do you think that you can live comfortably on government handouts?