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Nearly 1/2 of US households don't owe income tax

Nearly 1/2 of US households don't owe income tax

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I'm very confused by the US tax system. What exactly do you pay tax for, in total?

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Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I'm very confused by the US tax system. What exactly do you pay tax for, in total?
Police to protect some rich bastard's property and guns... to kill little yellow children in places most of us can't point out on a map.

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Originally posted by eljefejesus
I am for the right of even the poorest people to support freedom and libertarianism... and less government interference.
And, presumably, you are also for the right of the poorest, or anyone else, to support state intervention to improve their lot and the lot of their society - including their subjective experience of freedom?

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Originally posted by telerion
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm

Finally, somebody reported on what I've been saying from time to time around here. I meet so many people with low to moderate income that scream that they are being "taxed to death." Typically though, these households get most or all of that money back.

It's pretty funny listening t ...[text shortened]... tem go "sackcloth and ashes" through the streets bemoaning their "disappearing freedom."
Usually those I hear from make more money than that or have tried running their own business.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
How on earth are you's gonna keep financing all those wars, if nobody's paying taxes???
It is called debt. It is what will collapse the dollar. It is preplanned. It will give the NWO financial control of the world.

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Originally posted by joe beyser
It is called debt. It is what will collapse the dollar. It is preplanned. It will give the NWO financial control of the world.
And my won't you like fine and dandy then - your tinfoil hat transformed in to a crown of prophesy.

Until then, of course, it is just a hat that makes you look spectacularly silly.

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Originally posted by DrKF
And my won't you like fine and dandy then - your tinfoil hat transformed in to a crown of prophesy.

Until then, of course, it is just a hat that makes you look spectacularly silly.
Why thank you thank you very much. If I am going to look silly, it should be spectacularly silly. I fear that I have failed to do this though and you have put you ignorance on display here. You should keep up on current events.

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Originally posted by joe beyser
Why thank you thank you very much. If I am going to look silly, it should be spectacularly silly. I fear that I have failed to do this though and you have put you ignorance on display here. You should keep up on current events.
I follow current events quite well, thanks. I have yet to come across anything remotely resembling evidence of your bizarre conspiracy, perhaps because it is entirely in your head.

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Originally posted by DrKF
I follow current events quite well, thanks. I have yet to come across anything remotely resembling evidence of your bizarre conspiracy, perhaps because it is entirely in your head.
The funnies isn't where you will find out about current events. Look further.

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Originally posted by telerion
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm

Finally, somebody reported on what I've been saying from time to time around here. I meet so many people with low to moderate income that scream that they are being "taxed to death." Typically though, these households get most or all of that money back.

It's pretty funny listening t ...[text shortened]... tem go "sackcloth and ashes" through the streets bemoaning their "disappearing freedom."
I would think that the preponderence of that group is the very low income brackett. Middle class still gets reamed.

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Originally posted by joe beyser
The funnies isn't where you will find out about current events. Look further.
Neither of the daily newspapers I read have 'funnies' in them. I read grown-up papers. But you keep going - just blathering on about how ignorant I am because I haven't got a shiny hat like yours. I mean, actually supplying evidence of a conspiracy to establish your New World Order would be playing in to 'their' hands, wouldn't it?

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Originally posted by telerion
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm

Finally, somebody reported on what I've been saying from time to time around here. I meet so many people with low to moderate income that scream that they are being "taxed to death." Typically though, these households get most or all of that money back.

It's pretty funny listening t ...[text shortened]... tem go "sackcloth and ashes" through the streets bemoaning their "disappearing freedom."
It's pretty funny listening to net moochers of the system go "sackcloth and ashes" through the streets bemoaning their "disappearing freedom."[/b]

And your tax burden is...what?

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Originally posted by DrKF
Neither of the daily newspapers I read have 'funnies' in them. I read grown-up papers. But you keep going - just blathering on about how ignorant I am because I haven't got a shiny hat like yours. I mean, actually supplying evidence of a conspiracy to establish your New World Order would be playing in to 'their' hands, wouldn't it?
It isn't my one world order. Look it up. There is ample evidence in the mainstream media now. I don't care to convince you of anything here. Anyone that points out the facts gets labeled by ignoramuses like you. Words like tinfoil and conspiracy theory used to silence truth. When you are in your labor camp you will have a lot to think about as you were warned.

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Originally posted by joe beyser
It isn't my one world order. Look it up. There is ample evidence in the mainstream media now. I don't care to convince you of anything here. Anyone that points out the facts gets labeled by ignoramuses like you. Words like tinfoil and conspiracy theory used to silence truth. When you are in your labor camp you will have a lot to think about as you were warned.
Funny little fellow...

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Originally posted by joe beyser
Usually those I hear from make more money than that or have tried running their own business.
At the tea parties you mean? By the way, very few small business owners are in the upper tax brackets (like less than 3% ) so I don't think you can assume them to be net tax payers just because they operate a business.