I am pissed off.
> The facts: In the USA, close to 70% of all income taxes collected each
year
> are paid by the top 10% of income earners. The bottom 50% of taxpayers
> account for less than 5% of all income taxes paid.
Did you ever consider that this top 10% of income earners probably gets even
more than 70% of the income and that the bottom 50% of taxpayers probably don't
even get 5% of all income ?
> The opinion: There seems to be something inherently wrong with a tax
system
> which allows for the vast majority of your population to have little or no
> financial stake or ownership in the system. This majority can
easily take a
> position and vote to let government pay for more and more, because
they know
> it will cost them little or nothing.
This sounds almost like an attempt to get rid of the opinion of those poorer
voters, because they will ask for more from the richer voters. Is this still
democracy ? One step further and we are back in a system where someone who
has more (money, power), has more votes.
> 2) create a more even distribution of taxes, which would mean that yes,
those
> on the bottom will pay a little more and those on the top would pay a little
> less
To me this is a less even distribution of means.
> Today there are many who from an income tax standpoint pay absolutely
nothing
> and when you are paying nothing you tend to have absolutely no concern about
> how much the government spends on anything.
Maybe those who pay nothing or little have a small or no income at all.
Don't you think that these people wouldn't be concerned about a government that
spends billions of dollars on warfare ?
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