Um, WTF, your statement is incorrect. You cannot "raise" taxes on people who do not currently pay ANY taxes. However, we can and should stop allowing them to pay zero dollar and zero cents to support the government that serves them.
Originally Posted by SinsOfTheFlesh
Um SOTF , you are wrong on two fronts....0 + a > 0. That would be called a raise in paying nothing to paying something.
Next the poor pay taxes, just because you are ignorant of the fact that regressive taxes are taxes , does not mean that the poor do not pay taxes.
Lastly you can not squeeze blood from a turnip, though you Tea'billies seem to think that is the solution. The solution is to stop putting wars on credit....stop shitting in your pants every time some journalist gets beheaded that made the personal choice to cover a very dangerous war . To assume some personal responsibility for your own safety and quit looking for the government to protect you from something that is less likely to kill you than lightening.
In closing the poor do not benefit one bit from war.....the well connected rich folks that run government do. They should be the one's paying for these wars.
Maybe you can understand this problem if I provide you with facts instead of Tea Party slogans. If you want to actually debate the fairness of the God Damn tax code, I'd be glad to but not if all you have are fuck'd up misleading Tea Party chain mail slogans. Like I had said earlier that only plays in the snaggle tooth crowd. Your slogans do not work with me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r...b_1873392.html
And so, here are the tax percentages that each quintile actually pays as a percent of their true disposable incomes assuming everyone needs at least $2,000 a month just to get by;
This certainly doesn't look fair, much less progressive. A rate cannot even be calculated for the lowest quintile because they are $13,000 negative in the hole before even paying their taxes. Similarly, the second quintile owes more taxes each year than it has available after paying for basic necessities. The third quintile represents the median income earner in the United States and is paying approximately 50% more of their disposable income in taxes than our richest Americans.