Comments on: Chelsea, Get A Real Job and Pay More Taxes

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:30:46 +0000

Well a 1% increase or decrease is going to look very drastic to people making a lot of money based on the raw dollars.

The figures I gave came from the IRS and it showed a 0.5% drop. Either way, the reality is that the bottom 50% pay less than 4% of the nation’s taxes.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:12:58 +0000

Studies of the Bush tax cuts alone show the tax burden shifted slightly upward according to a CBO study. I'm not talking about anything dramatic, but just suggesting that taxes on the middle class increase slightly faster than lower and upper class taxes. I didn't think that's any secret or anything to argue about, but I'm probably wrong about that... Adam's last blog post..March 4 Soon, Please

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:45:39 +0000

The middle class is commonly referred to as families with incomes from 25k to 100k a year. The top 10% of wage earners starts at 103k a year. They pay 70% of the taxes in this country. The lower 90% pay 30% of the taxes.

The people making 62-103k pay 16%, 30-62 11% and below 30k 3% (half of all wage earners). The top 1%, 5% and 10% pays 39%, 60% and 70% respectively. There is still no logical way to say the middle class has seen the largest increase, especially when their tax rates went down under all the tax cuts.

This is all mindless political prattle. Unless you can show how their taxes have increased then I am afraid the middle class tax burden is another urban legend created by liberals intent of playing class warfare.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:33:33 +0000

Sorry Adam, the middle class is in that lower 50% that only pays 3% of the nation’s taxes. The bulk of the taxpayers and those paying the highest rate are the ones in the higher income levels. No matter how you slice it, there has been no increase in middle class taxes and since the middle class does not pay anywhere near as much in taxes as the upper earners, they 1) are not burdened by taxes and 2) are not going to see much benefit from the cuts.

All work is work. She did not say physical labor she said it is not real work. However, given your spin of what she said then what she does is not real work so why do we need her? It is the lower and middle class that labors but it is the upper class that makes the jobs. Government does not create private sector jobs, people in the private sector do.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:15:19 +0000

I think her point is fairly valid. What I do is technically "real work" just like a hedge fund employee. But when you compare that to other work sectors it doesn't seem all that much like real work. The point remains that the bedrock of our nation lies in the labor of the lower and middle class Americans. I think you would agree that the upper percents may pay most of the taxes, but the lower percent does the work that keeps this nation running. It's not the poor that Democrats want to target with tax cuts, it's the middle class. The middle class has seen the largest increase in tax burden in the last few decades. Adam's last blog post..March 4 Soon, Please

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