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On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:59:21 -0400, "Scout"
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On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:44:10 -0400, "Scout"
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Let's say your burger flipper makes $30,000 and your "wealth class"
makes
$1,000,000

The burger flipper (given the numbers above, the ones you snipped) would
be
paying all of $900 in taxes. Your "wealth class on the other hand would
be
paying $146,400. The effective tax rate, and you love talking about
effective rates, would have the effective tax rate on the burger flipper
be
3%, your wealth class, on the other hand, would have an effective tax
rate
of 14.6%

$900 for a low income in taxes is almost 90% of what they have over
what it takes to live on

Let's see about that shall we...

Poverty level (ability to survive) is $24,000

Which means he's $6,000 above that.

Of which he pays $900 in taxes

or....15% of what they have over what it takes to live on.

So where did you get 90%? Pull it out of your ass?

Because you assumed that a national poverty figure, set by the ****ing
idiots that back the wealth class, is a figure that has validity

Ok, then what number would you like to use?

I don't really care since it's going to be the same for everyone.


Second, the $900 you're proud of is only the FICA taxes, not the total
taxation paid by a low income earner. Add to that $900, state, local,
county, and other federal taxes on food, clothing, shelter, utilities,
everything else.

Totally missing out on what is being said, aren't you?