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Topic	What's a fair income tax rate for people making >$300k?
Darkman124 11/13/17 12:03:20 PM #31:	Fishy posted... Why not? because posting about something you genuinely do not understand actively undermines a given discussion BuzzyTheCat posted... Yes, this is about Federal income taxes, though the number is a bit lower. 44% of the country pays zero Federal income tax. 40% of the country, despite paying no Federal income tax at all, get checks from the government. Want to fix the tax situation. Everyone pays 15% tax on any income they have, no deductions, and any refund you get can not exceed what you paid in taxes that year. IE, no $10,000 refund when you only paid $3,000 in taxes that year this would not 'fix' the tax situation unless your idea of a 'fix' is 'starving the beast and forcing massive cuts to federal programs and the military due to a massively increased deficit' --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. <cite>Darkman124 posted [p:890305553] in What's a f... [t:75986526]...</cite> <quote><cite>Fishy posted...</cite> <quote> Why not? </quote> because posting about something you genuinely do not understand actively undermines a given discussion <cite>BuzzyTheCat posted...</cite> <quote> Yes, this is about Federal income taxes, though the number is a bit lower. 44% of the country pays zero Federal income tax. 40% of the country, despite paying no Federal income tax at all, get checks from the government. Want to fix the tax situation. Everyone pays 15% tax on any income they have, no deductions, and any refund you get can not exceed what you paid in taxes that year. IE, no $10,000 refund when you only paid $3,000 in taxes that year </quote> this would not 'fix' the tax situation unless your idea of a 'fix' is 'starving the beast and forcing massive cuts to federal programs and the military due to a massively increased deficit' --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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