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When someone asks a question about the rich getting tax breaks Why are they assumed to be poor?

January 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments
TxSup asked:


The society I want to live in provides a good public education, good military defense, good roads and other public services. These things don’t come cheap. I’ve gotten many benefits from this society why shouldn’t I pay more? Why should the middle and working class be taxed beyond their means. This is what WILL happen if the rich and upper middle get more breaks.

  1. scorbore
    January 4th, 2009 at 20:55 | #1

    Ok, if you are saying you are rich, what are you doing with your money? Spending it i bet. Which fuels others. This is the tax belief that goes behind cutting taxes for the richer, it is also because the rich pay so much taxes anyways. Also, if the rich are taxed even more, the govt. is punishing you for being rich, is that even the american way?

  2. Beez
    January 7th, 2009 at 04:07 | #2

    It’s already here.

  3. regerugged
    January 8th, 2009 at 21:45 | #3

    If you want to pay more taxes, go right ahead. The IRS accepts voluntary payments. You are wrong on the remainder of your statement.
    The so-called poor do not pay federal income tax. The bottom 50% of wage earners pay about 3% of the taxes collected by the IRS. If tax rates are lowered, and a person does not pay taxes to begin with, it should not matter to him what the tax rates are.
    The top three percent of income earners pay about 50% of the taxes collected by the IRS.
    The middle and working class are not taxed beyond their means. To my knowledge, no one is talking about a further lowering of tax rates. You are complaining about something that is not going to happen.
    Doom and gloom gets out of hand from time to time. Enjoy the benefits of our society.

  4. Beast
    January 9th, 2009 at 21:07 | #4

    This the Rich get the tax brakes is political BS. It is proven that tax cuts increase tax revenues and help the low and middle class because there are more and better paying Jobs made available. Most pore people pay little or no tax. I pay more for health insurance then federal tax.

  5. alanninn
    January 10th, 2009 at 16:07 | #5

    we have that now! i don’t want to pay for welfare without people who recieve it putting back into the system..that’s why they can recieve it and go to school to better themselves..i don’t want government paid abortion because it is economicaly convieniant to abort it! i don’t want to pay for the 70% fatherless black families who refuse to prosecute there ***** head dads for no support..the list goes on and on does this make me a bad citizen?

  6. neurotic41
    January 12th, 2009 at 02:54 | #6

    huh? I want a little bit of what you’ve been smoking. who said that pooring tons of money to a problem like education guarantees success? who said that our understaffed and poorly supplied soldiers are a good defense. I think that you need to ask for a receipt for where the money has gone and how was it spent. The military budget is probably the first thing that they cut and the education system has fallen behind the European and Asian countries who operates on less money. I think that you need to ask a better question.

  7. stephaniemariewalksonwater
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:11 | #7

    Well what would make it fair would be major corporations stop getting tax breaks when they outsource jobs, If companies truly paid their fair share of taxes the burden would not be so great on the american people.

  8. boardrunner94
    January 14th, 2009 at 20:36 | #8

    The rich does NOT get any more tax breaks than the middle class or the poor PERCENTAGE WISE. 3 percent of 1000 dollars is less than 3 percent of 10,000 dollars but they are both 3 percent.

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