The next time some liberal progressive rat bastard commie tries to tell you that the “rich don’t pay their fair share” show them the following graph.
This is the amount of federal taxes paid by the average household in each income quintile minus the average amount of government transfers received by those households in 2011. Stolen from this article. As the author states, “New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share.” These are gummint figures straight from the CBO.
Add to that the way the regulatory structures get one man to pay for another man’s services off the books. For example, Obamacare raised my premiums from $150 a month to over $350 (and I’m supposedly in a demographic, and buying the type of policy, that was going to be helped by Obamacare). Somebody’s getting that extra $2500 a year they’re sucking out of my pocket. Another example is my utility bills, which have all sorts of little provisions for boosting my rates, along with paperwork for others to fill out to claim a hardship and get low rates. It’s all redistribution, except without the tax deduction or the sense of having chosen to perform a charitable act. But the Democrats keep saying they haven’t raised my taxes, and none of this shows up on this chart.
Taxes… in the past 3 yrs. I’ve paid close to 40k in taxes. I don’t want to hear it about the rich paying. They fucking don’t. Neither do the corporate bastards or their companies. Maybe I should claim all my medical and psych problems with the VA (If I can get into see the sorry fucks) and not have to pay so much. So I guess I’m paying for some of these illegal bastards the Obunghole and his dipshitocrats are wanting to make legal. I haven’t had to deal with the insurance debacle as my job covers me as well as tricare.
Actually they do. You’re falling for the rat bastard commies’ class warfare if you think they don’t. It’s the bottom 45% who don’t pay any taxes. The “rich” pay more than their fair share. I didn’t make up the numbers on the graph. The top 10% who earn 17% of the income pay over 33% of the taxes in this country.
You paid more in taxes over the last three years than I’ve made in the last year. I think you might want to recalibrate your benchmarks on ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ a li’l bit.