Fred Dehl wrote:
DSK wrote in
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Fred Dehl wrote:
The lowest 50% of wage earners pays just FIVE percent of income taxes.

The lowest 95% of wage earners pays just HALF of all income taxes.


Wrong

I don't think so.

In either case, you can easily go to the IRS web site and
see a nice statistical breakdown of tax burden by income
category.

URL? Didn't think so.

Plus more than HALF the "cost of government" referred to is transfer
payments TO the poor and lower-middle-class.

Really?

Yes.

You mean like the way the Parks Service allows all
those poor people in their $100K motor homes to clog up
Yellowstone & Yosemite and all the other choice pieces of
taxpayer-owned real estate? Like the way the SEC is always
being careful to make sure that wealthy investors & stock
manipulators are not allowed to profit at the expense of
retirement funds?

Check the Parks Service and SEC budgets. Add them together, and compare
to the budget of Medicare. Then shut up.

Apples and Oranges. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other, so
that's an ignorant statement. Then after such a blunder as that, you
have the audacity to tell someone else to shut up
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