Demographics and Immigration Reform
57 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll support the most contentious part of immigration reform, a process by which illegal immigrants may gain citizenship. Two other elements -...
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Adults younger than 40 have undeveloped brains, and no sense of consequences, and damn little knowledge of history. 27% think Paul McCartney died in 1966. Watch Leno's jaywalking segment some time....
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47% of the country doesn't pay taxes so statistics are no longer meaningful as to what will benefit the nation. As for the ricin letters arriving in Washington, it's nice to see someone is at least...
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everyone pays taxes. The working poor pay a higher percentage of their income to taxes then the rich do. The only way that 47% no tax number works is if only one tax is considered instead of all...
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Someone needs to look at the tax brackets again.
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I don't have much sympathy or patience for people who can work but don't and just live off the government. But I don't like lumping people who work their butts off for low wages lumped together in a...
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I'm sure we've covered this:The capital gains rate is 15% -- except for those is the lowest two tax brackets it is 5%We kept hearing that the effective income tax rate for the top 5% is 15%For those...
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you are doing it again. That only covers income tax rates. If you read my post I am talking about all taxes. That is a common republican argument distorting how much people pay in taxes by only using...
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Everything after "Going back to effective tax rates" dealt with income, payroll, capital gains, interest and dividends.
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I don't know what to say about the illegal immigration debate any more but I will point out that illegals pay a lot of taxes as well without getting the benefits legal americans get for paying them...
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My point Flattop was unless all taxes (federal/state and local) are included in effective tax rates they give a false impression of what percentage people in all income groups pay to the government...
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As opposed to demonizing high income people?If you think I am going to look up tax rate info on all 50 states, much less every municipality, you are out of your mind.
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didn't expect you to. I have posted charts here years ago showing all taxes by income group but I don't want to dig for them again either. I just had a knee jerk reaction to Zenos comment about 47%...
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Romney figured out that the 47% comment was a mistake, but it seems that many others haven't yet.I've said it before, the tax code is a monstrosity. We should burn it and start over.
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