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Originally posted by Patroklos
If it makes you feel any better, most of those taxes don't come from the average joe
If it makes you feel any better, most of those taxes don't come from the average joe
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That's simply not true. If you take the total tax burden on all levels and add in tax receipts from corporations too (in other words all tax income) then you're way off the mark. You're only talking about income tax.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate. -
Income taxes normally account for well over 50% of tax takes, but then, most taxes are paid by people earning a lot of money.
To give the benefit of the doubt I would assume that he is talking about demographic, not about type of taxation (corporate, income etc). ie The richest 10% pay something like 90% of the taxes. The average Joe therefore pays peanuts in comparison.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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i don't really understand your point, seeing as how that's pretty much what happened at northern rock...Originally posted by The Mad Monk
...and thus at the first whiff of trouble, all the "informed" customers pull their money out, and the banks crumble under a run.
of course, there wasn't a lot of depositor's money there to start with, which is why the rock crumbled when the credit markets seized up."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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Originally posted by Dauphin
The richest 10% pay something like 90% of the taxes.
Even Rush Limbaugh only claims that they pay less than 65%.
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You're wrong.Originally posted by DanS
We're not dead yet!
Basically the US is now in recession and it's just a matter of time before the official report comes out. Chalk two recessions up for Bush.Last edited by Dinner; March 17, 2008, 18:38.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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And he's ignoring state and local taxes to boot. When you look at the total tax burden which everyone pays the numbers are much more balanced.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I don't think the first one was his fault, given it happened less than a year into office.
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Care to share those numbers?Originally posted by Oerdin
And he's ignoring state and local taxes to boot. When you look at the total tax burden which everyone pays the numbers are much more balanced.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Don't hold your breath.Originally posted by Dauphin
Care to share those numbers?
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I ain't looking them up but logic says all those property taxes, sales taxes, and local fees (effectively taxes for government services) add up to a pretty penny.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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What a ****ing cop-out.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude.
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Well I bet they certainly aren't paying their taxes.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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