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fmfclwu -> RE: Gas prices have spiked! May soon past record highs! $4-$5 gas coming (4/11/2011 11:28:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MarkfromHouston
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Well there is no surprise in the fact that you do not run a business, and that is not saying anything bad, but those of us who do know exactly how long it takes to pay that nasty tax bill. I would say that you might take a look at just who pays taxes in the USA, it sure is not the poor.
The bottom 50% pay nothing. The top 10% pay 70% of all taxes, that means that people like myself who are small business owners are carrying the burden and every day we hear how you want to "tax the rich". If you keep it up we are going to start saying "let's eat the poor", though I doubt most of the poor would taste very good but daminit...we cannot keep carrying the load, either unburden us or take on some of the burden yourself or we might just all decide working our butts off so people can have jobs and stuff is not any fun and take our money (and it is BY GOD OUR MONEY) and leave the country with it. See how you finance health care and all of that crap when we all leave. Do not make the mistake of thinking that the so called rich won't be able to leave or won't desire to leave, crash this economy with debt about one more time and I know a few hundred who are going to take millions out of the country and I would hope to hitch a ride with them if they will accept a poor working man who is also supposedly wealthy.
Our government currently defines the rich as those with gross household incomes over $250,000.00 per year, the average long haul owner operator trucker earns over $250k a year before fuel and taxes and stuff with one truck, he sure is not rich.
A few quick nitpicks - 50% of income earners pay no federal income taxes. It is incorrect to say they pay no taxes - payroll taxes start on the first dime earned, and state taxes (income, sales, property, etc.) obviously vary by state.
If you eat dinner in a restaurant, do you complain to the manager that it is BY GOD YOUR MONEY and you shouldn't have to pay the full bill? I assume not, so why is it any different when you're paying for the roads, army, postal service, police services, fire departments, etc. you use every day?
Good luck finding a better place to go if you don't want to be financing health care - the United States has one of the lowest portions of its healthcare system paid for by government funding in the developed world. Most countries finance 70% to 80% of their healthcare industry through the government; the United States is around 40%.
Taxes are based on income AFTER EXPENSES, so if you make $250k before expenses, you aren't even close to sniffing the top tax bracket.
And you may be surprised, if you think producing more domestic oil will have a big impact on consumer prices (hint: it won't. We don't produce enough to appreciably move world markets), which party you should want in the White House. Daily oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico:
1981: 719,000
1982: 786,000
1983: 876,000
1984: 956,000
1985: 941,000
1986: 960,000
1987: 892,000
1988: 818,000
1989: 764,000
1990: 739,000
1991: 799,000
1992: 822,000
1993: 825,000
1994: 860,000
1995: 943,000
1996: 1,021,000
1997: 1,129,000
1998: 1,228,000
1999: 1,354,000
2000: 1,430,000
2001: 1,536,000
2002: 1,556,000
2003: 1,559,000
2004: 1,453,000
2005: 1,282,000
2006: 1,299,000
2007: 1,277,000
2008: 1,152,000
2009: 1,559,000
2010: 1,640,000
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