(11-09-2017, 03:07 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(11-09-2017, 12:06 PM)Dakota Wrote: You do realize that under current tax code, the top 1% pay over 40% of all taxes paid. The bottom 50% pays absolutely nothing.

I haven't seen any of the bottom 50% creating jobs. Jobs are those things that generate income and drive the economy.

It doesn't matter how much of the total taxes that they pay. They can afford it and it doesn't effect them, because they still have billions or millions of dollars. They should pay the same percentage of their income that everyone else pays. That's only fair. We need a flat tax rate. Everyone pays the same percentage of their income. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander.

Who are you (or anyone else) to say who can or cannot afford anything?  How do you know if it does or does not affect them?

Much of the "everyone else" don't pay ANY percentage of their income in taxes.  While yes, taxes might be held out of their paychecks, but many people get a tax "refund" often for more money than was withheld from their paychecks.

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