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boymonkey74
reply to post by burdman30ott6
I could do though, I could claim just short of 2k income Tax credits.
I may have to If I want to pay my rent in Feb.
HUMBLEONE
106.2 + 9.1= 115.3 115.3 %??? WTF? Very sloppy propaganda.
Asktheanimals
It's not just the very poor who have a negative tax liability - many of the largest corporations are also in that club.
thanks. It seems like I can always on you to give some straight answers.
xuenchen
solongandgoodnight
reply to post by burdman30ott6
I can't help but wonder what the mega wealthy had to actually pay though, percentage wise....the same? i'm really asking.......very carefully seeing as how you are angry. which is understandable.
here's a little on that..
According to new IRS data, the 1.35 million taxpayers that represent the highest-earning one percent of the Americans who filed federal income tax returns in 2010 earned 18.9% of the total gross income and paid 37.4% of all federal income taxes paid in that year.
In contrast, the 128.3 million taxpayers in the bottom 95% of all U.S. taxpayers in 2010 earned 66.2% of gross income and that group paid 40.9% of all taxes paid.
In other words, the top 1 percent (1.35 million) of American taxpayers paid almost as much federal income tax in 2010 ($354.8 billion) as the entire bottom 95% of American tax filers ($388.4 billion), see chart above. And it’s that group of top income earners (with income above $221,000 in 2010 to be in the top one percent), that Obama and the Democrats want to tax even more.
Further, there were more than 58 million Americans in 2010 who had tax returns with a zero or negative tax liability, so about half of the bottom 95% of American “taxpayers” paid nothing or got a tax refund.
The top 1% of US taxpayers pay almost as much in federal income taxes as the entire bottom 95%, and half of that bottom group paid no taxes at all in 2010
Daughter2
THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE:
THE TOP 93% CONTROL 80% OF THE WEALTH!!!!!
HERE I'll say it again
THE TOP 93% control 80% of the wealth.
And you are right people aren't going to vote for someone who believes their they and their children can starve.
It's a little hard for the Walmart cashier to ring up your groceries if they are fainting from hunger.
villagesmithie
reply to post by ketsuko
As I said some people seem to enjoy being angry. Your choice, but seems like a waste of time and energy to me. Especially if the anger is fueled by misleading statistics and aim at the wrong target.
Rather than getting mad at those who don't have enough money to live on,
Among companies listed on the S&P 500, almost one in nine paid an effective tax rate of zero percent — or even lower — over the past year, according to an analysis by USA Today.
Previous analyses have shown that the typical corporation pays a lower effective tax rate than most middle-class families, and a far lower one than the statutory corporate tax rate against which business interests disingenuously rail.
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ownbestenemy
Asktheanimals
It's not just the very poor who have a negative tax liability - many of the largest corporations are also in that club.
Except we are talking about a different tax altogether. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed, it just isn't in the realm of this discussion, which is individual taxes; not corporate taxes.