Forum Post: My favorite 1% propaganda mind control statistic and the arrogance
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 10:33 a.m. EST by theOnlineGovernmentDotcom
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The richest people pay 50% of all the taxes collected - everyone else is just lazy beggars expecting a 'handout'. Ok this is tempting to say wow, I guess they really pay the most. Here's the thing. This statistic is so misleading, what it really means is that even after hiring a room full of accountants to use every loophole in the book the rich make such an unimaginably huge amount of money that the tax collected is substantial. In the end for every dollar an average person is paying, there is a mega-millionaire paying 50 cents. Expecting them to pay the same rate as you is 'STEALING'. OMG, seriously - stealing?
As to the idea that everyone else is just lazy wanting a handout - just take the stick out of your ass please you pompous POS. No one can wait an average of 5 years to break even when starting without some sort of support - whether it's a parent, wife etc. Don't take all the credit. Even for my pathetic middle-class life, I give credit to my parents for their support in getting me enrolled in college etc. I'm sure there are incredible outlier stories of the guy who started with nothing, both parents got in a horrible accident, was raised by wolves and still built and empire - kudos to you, but if you pay the same tax rate as me it's not 'stealing'. The more average case is that you got a job at your daddy's friends business that you didn't deserve and got paid too much being in the good ol' boys club making horrible decisions and that's how you ended up having the money to start an equally horrible business. As for many of us we don't have those same opportunities. The red tape is thick enough that you need big bucks and great support to create a start up. Congratulations - the lobbyists did their jobs well. Now starting a business is only for people in the club and we successfully live in one of the few countries in the world where you can't take your chickens to sell in the open-air market.
By the way this does not represent the opinion of theOnlineGovernment.org or OWS - it is only my personal steam blowing.
Your argument highlights the exact reasons Obama's "Jobs" bill is nothing but a political ploy meant to enslave us. the 5% tax increase on the rich will do almost nothing, since the rich take their income as capital gains at15%.
What the bill is guaranteed to do is add another half a trillion dollars in debt to this country. That debt should be just enough to force draconian cuts to all public services within 48 months.,
Lot of steam
Another thing to keep in mind is that when you factor in state and local taxes, the poor and middle class actually pay almost the same percentage of their income in taxes as the wealthy, sometimes even more.
Yes as a middle class person my rate is twice as much as Warren Buffet's. You're right. That's the info many people don't understand - the middle class rate is much higher than the elite's rate.
Don't press of education spending cuts when you don't even know the definition of stealing. As for the 'handouts' - you sent our jobs to China to earn a 10% increase in margins, where are we supposed to work. That's why many are choosing to actually GO TO CHINA to work.